Arizona, New Mexico & the Grand Canyon Trips (Lonely Planet, 1st Edition) - Aaron Anderson [171]
Wendy Yanagihara Many thanks to Suki Gear for sending me out and a being kick-ass editor; Dean Reese for his vast expertise; Danna and Bill Hendrix for making the rim-to-rim fabulous; Serena so Supplee for (www.serenasupplee.com) insight; artistic Matt Fahey for giving good quotes; Jason and Lemon for saving me from North Rim snows.
Sara Benson Big thanks to Suki Gear for gig. this Heaps of gratitude due are to all of the Las local Vegas folks who helped me out on my trips. many research of Most all, thanks to my and road-trip buddy poker-playing partner, Mike Connolly, Jr.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Internal photographs p11 (top) by Lisa Dunford; p22 Craig Visions Lovell/Eagle Photography/Alamy. All other photographs by Lonely Planet Images, and by Mark Newman p5, p24 (bottom); Douglas Steakley p6 (bottom), p16; Richard p7 Cummins p11 (bottom), (bottom), p18 p22 (top), (bottom), p24 Holger (top); Leue p6 (top), p18 (top); Witold Skrypczak p7 (top), p8 (bottom); Ralph p8 Hopkins (top), p20; John Elk III p9, p10, p17 (bottom); Karl Lehmann p13, p14; Ann Cecil p12; John Hay p15 p15 (top), (bottom); Christian Aslund p17 (top); Stephen Saks p19; Ray Laskowitz p21 (bottom); Eddie Brady p21 (top); Jerry Alexander p23.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
The Authors
Arizona, New Mexico & the Grand Canyon Iconic Trips
Four Corners Cruise
Motoring the Mother Road: Route 66
Rafting the Colorado
A Green Chile Adventure
Rim-to-Rim Canyon Hike
Gunfighters & Gold Miners
Dam Diving
In Search of Georgia O’Keeffe
Billy the Kid Byway
Southwest by Train
Arizona Trips
48 Hours in Greater Phoenix
Cactus League