San Francisco Peaks – Various Perspectives

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Northern Arizona Photo Essay Towering over Flagstaff and visible from many vantage points in northern Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks are the remains of a lone, extinct stratovolcano with a collapsed caldera surrounded by six summits. The volcano was active 1.4 million and 400,000 years ago and the original volcanic peak may have once reached […]

Grand Canyon Railway & Hotel

Image of train engine from Grand Canyon Railway

Exploring Arizona Attractions Before there was a national park, there was a train that went to the Grand Canyon. For over a century, majestic locomotives and train cars have carried passengers from Williams, Arizona to the south rim of the Grand Canyon sixty miles away. Today, the Grand Canyon Railway and Hotel keeps this tradition […]

Top Gun House Gets a New Lease on Life

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Home of the Famous HIGH-Pie  If you’ve seen the movie, Top Gun (1986), you’ve undoubtedly seen one of its inanimate stars – “The Top Gun House” – a blue seaside historic cottage on a palm tree lined street in Oceanside, California. Built 135 years ago in 1887, this house was initially a vacation home for Dr. Henry […]

Looking Forward to More Adventures

Looking Forward to More Adventures

Celebrating Seven Years of LadyBugBlog! It’s been a while since I’ve published an official post and today is a special day in this blog’s history. Seven years ago, May 5, 2010, was the launch of LadyBugBlog and I’ve shared many adventures with all of you so far. My original focus for this blog was to […]