A trip to the Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona in 2006. This national park is loaded with rock formations that really make you wonder. Balancing rocks, towers that look like pipe organs, rocks that look like a face and all sorts of other things. It didn't look much like Arizona at all. But it was truly impressive. We went hiking through the park, climbing over rocks and walking through narrow slits in the rocks. Again, it looked a lot more like Colorado than Arizona. A lot of the rock formation just made me wonder how they got to be that way. How does one rock end up balancing on another one like that?

On the way up to the monument we went through the Arizona wine country. I was as surprised as you that Arizona had a wine country! As you can see in the top few pictures, wide open plains, fields of tall wavy grass and mountains as the backdrop. I guess there could be worse places to try and make wine. A few small vineyards had made a go of it and they actually produce some pretty good results. We each bought a couple of bottles to take back with us. You never know what you're going to find out there.