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Welcome to the American Southwest Travel Blog. Within these pages, you can read selected stories and musings about our waterfall-themed adventures in the Southwest. Hopefully, you'll find these blogs entertaining and educational. Perhaps you might get a good laugh at our expense, or you might find some nuggets that you can apply to your own travels.
Thumb through the travel blogs below. They are arranged chronologically with the most recent escapade at the top. Enjoy :)
Mothers Day in September With simultaneously growing anticipation and doubt, mom and I took the apparent advice from the pair of hikers we talked to and scrambled down the slickrock and into the bushy depths of Calf Creek Canyon. There didn't seem to be a trail and right away something seemed off. But thinking Upper Calf Creek Falls was in a wide open cove, I thought we could scramble upstream in the bush to eventually get there. But after a few minutes of scratching skin with the hard and dense growth around the gurgling creek, we retreated back up the slick rock. I had this sinking feeling that this waterfall would elude us for yet a third time... [read more]
Deer in the Daylight: It was about 9am when I finally headed north on Hwy 89. I was careful not to speed as I had received two traffic tickets a month ago along this stretch of road. The drive proceeded as normal as the daylight continued and the summer heat started beating down with increasing intensity. Suddenly out of the corner of my eye, I noticed something running very fast towards the minivan... [read more]
Two Tickets to my Driving Record: Up to this point, all we had seen were things we had seen before. We went through nearly 8 hours of driving by now and I was anxious to start seeing something I hadn't seen before or something I hadn't seen in years. As we entered the township of Hatch, the speed limit was reduced to 35mph so I lazily let the car roll to the required slower speed from the 75mph we had gone, but apparently it wasn't slowing down fast enough because a state trooper was going the other way when he flashed his blinker and made a U-turn just as we passed him... [read more]
Tubing in the Subway: As Julie and I made our way up the slippery wet hardened sandstone floor, we were immediately met by a series of deep pools that conspired to turn us around like so many others who went up the Subway backwards. But knowing about this obstacle in advance, I came prepared with an inflatable rafting tube and now was the time to start blowing on it so we can see what lies beyond... [read more]
Thanksgiving amongst the Havasupai: The weather forecast had said we would face bad weather today. It certainly looked that way yesterday in Laughlin when dark skies and swaying trees seemed to indicate the arrival of a big storm. But as we gazed at the double-barred plumes of Havasu Falls, we marveled at how the reflected light in the shadows of the surrounding sandstone cliffs painted the travertine rocks and cliffs a pinkish orange while we saw dark turquoise at the base of the falls... [read more]
Thinking of Jabba the Hut: After hiking along the deceptively strenuous sandy trail for what seemed like an eternity, we could see the falls up ahead behind the foliage. Its sound grew louder as we got closer and our pace quickened. And there it was before us - Lower Calf Creek Falls. It was still in shadow, but we were alone and had the falls to ourselves... [read more]
A Cool Adventure in the Desert: The four of us made quicker progress than we had on the Virgin River because there seemed to be long stretches of ankle-deep or shallower water. But just as we thought we could cruise effortlessly, we were stopped in our tracks by a deep-looking pool with a little waterfall off to the side of a seemingly impassable wall behind it... [read more]
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