We loved staying here with Duke and Sarah Hayduk, who own and operate the Calf Canyon Bed & Breakfast. Dinner last night was at the Cow Canyon Trading Post. We’ve been so impressed that we put this on a future itinerary to bring Caroline’s mom back to both of these locations.

Back in Arizona, I believe this is the Hopi Reservation though it could be the Navajo as the two are neighbors.

One of my all-time favorite photos as it captures the openness of this Native American land in the most beautiful way to my eyes. I believe this, too, was on Hopi Lands, but again it might just be the Navajo Nation.

The area is called the Painted Desert. When I was about six or seven years old, my Uncle Woody and Aunt Ann drove across America with my Aunt Lillian and sister Shari as Woody and Ann were moving to Santa Barbara, California. I was in the big moving van with my uncle at the wheel, and my sister was with my two aunts in a Cadillac. This is one of the first big memories I kept from that trip. The other standout memory was the cheap motel with the sound of the freight train passing by as though it were coming through our front door.

We used to drive a giant gas hog of a vehicle. This is up on the Mogollon Rim on our way home to Phoenix, Arizona.

Another freakishly beautiful sunset over Arizona.