Lava, lava everywhere……..love it.
We hiked the lava falls trail, following cairns, piles of rocks. Great fun.
Sorry if there are too many lava pictures, but in our opinion, there is no such thing as too many lava pictures. You should see how many we are not posting.
We did see lizards on our walk, and lots of flowers, which we found surprising.
As if the lava was not enough, on the other side of the road are these gorgeous sandstone formations.
Our country sure has beautiful landscapes.
We drove to the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument. It is a beautiful wall of cliffs. We loved seeing them, but to be truthful, they were not so much more lovely than other parts of the desert.
Here are some pictures of the cliffs.
Anyone who thinks the desert is boring is not paying attention. Here are some pictures we took as we drove across Arizona.
The desert is in bloom right now. 
Caught this dust devil. We saw many of them.
The desert is beautiful
We love driving through the desert.
Here was our first view of the San Francisco Peaks at Flagstaff.
This made me laugh at loud. We have all seen handicapped parking spaces, but did you know there are handicapped truck parking? Neither did I……
In the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument is the Navajo Bridge.
Navajo Bridge crosses the Colorado River's Marble Canyon near Lee's Ferry in Arizona. Raft trips down the Grand Canyon start at Lee’s Ferry and the actual ferry used to be the only way across the Colorado in this area. In 1927 they built the first bridge. In 1995 the second bridge, the one used now, was built.
The canyon is beautiful.
The most surprising thing we saw, though, was unexpected. As we were walking across the pedestrian bridge, which was the first car bridge, a tour guide from one of those river trips saw some California Condors, a very endangered species.
Notice the tagging of the birds
