Kartchner Caverns/Saguaro NP/Titan Missile Museum - Happy 2025!

 We left on New Year's day to go to Arizona to do Kartchner Cavern's Rotunda/Throne tour and later that day to visit the Titan Missile Museum and do the missile silo tour. (We went to bed early on New Year's Eve!) They were both really awesome. We also did a quick stop by Saguaro NP between the two.  We had a nice picnic there and enjoyed seeing the Visitor's Center and the little scenic route drive to see the crazy cactus! We took the scenic route on the way to Arizona down through Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon and a faster route for the way home.  Either way, it was a pretty long drive, but worth it.  Bean wanted to take a small vacation as a Christmas present, and going south to Arizona seemed like a good way to do that.  We have been to both places in the past, but were happy to enjoy them again.  (I didn't remember the museum visiting the museum at all.)  

We went through Jacob Lake on New Year's Day and it wasn't open, but on the way home, we did eat dinner there and got their delicious cookies and hot chocolate for dessert.  We stopped off at Navajo Bridge to stretch our legs both ways.  I love that view of the Colorado River from the bridge and of the amazing Vermillion Cliffs along the way to and from it.  It turned out to be a really quick, fun trip.  We left on Wednesday and came home on Friday.  (You can't take pictures inside of the Kartchner Caverns, so I don't have any here. This is a painting of an amazing formation inside the cavern - it's called Kubla Kahn. The other pic is one off the internet.