I doubt anyone who reads this lives on the Gulf Coast, but if you do... i wish you luck. This thing is one of the largest hurricanes on record and it is heading straight for New Orleans at the moment. Hopefully it will weaken a bit.. but even if it does, it will still be an incredibly strong storm. Sadly, there are lots of poor people in that city who can't even leave... 

so the other day i went on an eye- lazer shooting rampage in Malibu... 

driving home there were many happy cows in the unusually-green high desert grassland. This picture and the ones below it were all taken by Julie from her camera... mine from my camera will be posted later. 

Prescott 

our last campsite.. a free 'dispersed' campsite outside of Prescott... (basically a large turnout where we pulled off a dirt road to camp) 

the bark of an 'alligator juniper' 

cacti and a thunderstorm 

hug a cactus! 

if you look closely you can see water pouring down from the top of the bridge onto the rocks below. 

the edge of the bridge/cave was filled with stalagtite type deposits 

Tonto Bridge.. a crazy 'natural bridge' that this creek goes through 

i guess the hicks hate cattle guards? 

old cliff dwellings 

Montezuma Well - a weird sinkhole 

'hi!' 

the area around Sedona. The town itself was kinda yuppy-crappy... but the surroundings were pretty amazing 

ooh pretty! (Julie being 'arty') 

more rain over the San Francisco Peaks 

a summer downpour somewhere over the Painted Desert 

look! a volcano! 

yikes! 

this is a crater we climbed to the top of and looked down into. We started hearing thunder so we left... trees all around us had lightning scars 

a lava flow... 

this is the Sunset Crater, a volcano which erupted 1000 years or so ago.  

We checked out some 4*4 roads in this area north of Flagstaff... it was very pretty up there. This was after trying to hike in the canyon we were staying in and realizing the damn forest service wanted to charge us a bunch of money to do anything. The thing about the forest service is some sites are awesome and free but other sites have ridiculous fees.. it is weird.