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Road Tripping in America
14 April 2025 11:31 am When we booked our bicycle tour in southern Arizona, we chose not to book an air package, but instead decided we would make a road trip out and back. We left home a week before the bike tour began, leaving us time to do some sightseeing along the way, and planned to do the same on the way home. We are huge fans of the National Park Service, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that many of our stops along the way were sites under the NPS authority. But we also had some bucket list items that we hadn't been able to get to on earlier trips that we wanted to make an extra effort to get to on this one. And, we also managed to visit two more UNESCO World Heritage sites: the San Antonio Mission and the Taos Pueblo. (I've updated my list of visited World Heritage sites to include these).
When we finally returned home, we had been gone for 22 days, and had driven more than 5,000 miles. We had also completed a five day bike tour in the Sonoran Desert and the Saguaro National Park, riding a total of around 120 miles. We visited eight different NPS sites, visited several Navajo Tribal Park sites, visited friends and family, and more. We spent the trip living out of our bags...the longest we stayed in the same place was the final three nights of the bike tour. There were three other places we spent two nights, but everywhere else we only spent a single night before moving on.
It was a great trip, and it highlighted the diversity of this country in landscape, people, and activities. While this type of travel might not suit everyone, we can certainly recommend visits to any of the places we stopped at along the way.
When we finally returned home, we had been gone for 22 days, and had driven more than 5,000 miles. We had also completed a five day bike tour in the Sonoran Desert and the Saguaro National Park, riding a total of around 120 miles. We visited eight different NPS sites, visited several Navajo Tribal Park sites, visited friends and family, and more. We spent the trip living out of our bags...the longest we stayed in the same place was the final three nights of the bike tour. There were three other places we spent two nights, but everywhere else we only spent a single night before moving on.
It was a great trip, and it highlighted the diversity of this country in landscape, people, and activities. While this type of travel might not suit everyone, we can certainly recommend visits to any of the places we stopped at along the way.