Arches and Canyonlands
From Mexican Hat we headed north to Moab, a great base for both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. We spent a full day in each, and wished we’d had longer,… Read more Arches and Canyonlands →
Mexican Hat
Mexican Hat gets its name from the weird rock formation on its outskirts. It’s a tiny place on the San Juan River where we’d stopped for coffee the year before after… Read more Mexican Hat →
Zion National Park
Our trip to Arizona in 2009 inspired us to see more of America’s Grand Circle and the following year we were back, this time in Southern Utah, one of the… Read more Zion National Park →
People’s Palace bench
On a recent visit to Glasgow Green, I spotted this unusual wooden bench in the garden outside the People’s Palace. I don’t remember noticing it before, nor the statue of… Read more People’s Palace bench →
Blackness Castle
Yesterday we went east to Blackness Castle on the Firth of Forth, one of Historic Scotland’s sites. We dodged the rain with a well-timed lunch, then spent a dry, if cold… Read more Blackness Castle →
Balmaha and Conic Hill
When Saturday dawned dry, we set off for the small village of Balmaha on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond. We’ve visited many times and always have lunch in the… Read more Balmaha and Conic Hill →
Electric Gardens
Take a walk round Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens as you’ve never seen them before. Electric Gardens is the West End Festival’s first winter venture and it’s on till 15th February (follow… Read more Electric Gardens →
Farewell Arizona
When we left Winslow, we just had one night left before our flight home, which we spent in Flagstaff. On the way we stopped off at Meteor Crater – 550 feet… Read more Farewell Arizona →
Standin’ on the corner of Winslow, Arizona…
Our next stop was Winslow, via the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert – remnants of 225 million years ago when Arizona was a swamp. Minerals in the water seeped through… Read more Standin’ on the corner of Winslow, Arizona… →
Canyon de Chelly
Canyon de Chelly (pronounced Shay) is easy to get into – it’s less than 1000 feet deep – but there is only one place you can do it unaccompanied, the… Read more Canyon de Chelly →
The Grand Canyon
What can I add to the torrent of words that have been written about the Grand Canyon? How can I describe it? I’d seen pictures, of course, but my eyes… Read more The Grand Canyon →
Sedona
Back in the days when this blog was young (2011), and I thought it would be an easy job to write a retrospective travel diary, I started with our trip to… Read more Sedona →
The Glasgow Gallivanter 