writing | Nancy Loderick's Blog

Browsing All posts tagged under »writing«

Back to School – Part 2

May 21, 2025

Comments Off on Back to School – Part 2

From Sedona, Arizona to South Hadley, Massachusetts. Mr. Ken and I sure do get around. 🙂 March in New England can be pretty dreary. It is cold; it can snow; it can rain. This March was no exception. I was so happy to get an invitation to my alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, for a […]

Sedona, Arizona – The magnificent Grand Canyon

May 14, 2025

The pinnacle of our trip – the Grand Canyon in all of its glory! The views almost look like moon scapes to me. If I had to pick a favorite view, this next one would be it. I just love all the color contrasts. I love how there are so many different scenes as you […]

Sedona, Arizona – Route 66 on the way to the Grand Canyon

May 7, 2025

Comments Off on Sedona, Arizona – Route 66 on the way to the Grand Canyon

Our last full day with Road Scholar, we took a trip to the Grand Canyon. Even the trip there was an adventure. There was actually snow on the ground, the closer we got to Flagstaff. We took the “scenic” route to the Grand Canyon and were lucky to travel along the famous Route 66 for […]

Sedona, Arizona – Hilton at Bell Rock

April 30, 2025

If you’ve been reading my latest blog posts, you know that we had a fabulous trip to Sedona Arizona. We went with Road Scholar. Road Scholar sure does things first class all the way. Not only were the outings we had very well organized and informative, the place where we stayed was very, very nice. […]

Happy Easter!

April 23, 2025

I am interrupting my Sedona blog posts to do my annual Easter Peeps blog. If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I love my Peeps! Since the Boston Marathon was the day after Easter, I really wanted to find an image of Peeps running a race. 🙂 No luck. But, I found […]

Sedona, Arizona – Little Colorado River Gorge

April 16, 2025

The Little Colorado River Gorge is a breathtaking natural wonder located within the Navajo Nation. We stopped here on our way to the Grand Canyon. This is one of the many reasons I loved going on a Road Scholar tour, since they had us visiting places like this, which are not as well known as say, the […]

Sedona, Arizona – Jerome Ghosts and Quirks

April 9, 2025

If not for the artists who saved it, Jerome would be the largest ghost town in the nation. Visitors today browse art galleries that were once bordellos, mingle at restaurants that were once opium dens and make new friends at some of the oldest saloons in the state. Jerome is considered a ghost town because its population […]

Sedona, Arizona – J is for Jerome

April 2, 2025

Jerome, Arizona was once a thriving copper-producing city. It was named after Eugene Jerome, a New York lawyer who backed the copper mining venture. Notice the “J” on the hillside. “J” is for Jerome. These hillside letters (or ‘mountain monikers’) are largely a western phenomenon. You won’t find them east of the Mississippi River, but […]

Sedona, Arizona – Red Rock State Park

March 26, 2025

Comments Off on Sedona, Arizona – Red Rock State Park

Red Rock State Park is a very apt name for a park in Arizona. There are beautiful red rocks everywhere. One morning, our tour led us to the pretty Red Rock State Park. A brief history of how this park came to be. It was open and dedicated on October 19, 1991. In the fall […]

Sedona, Arizona – Chapel of the Holy Cross

March 19, 2025

The Chapel of the Holy Cross, sitting high atop the red rocks in Sedona, Arizona, was inspired and commissioned by local rancher and sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude. In 1932 she was inspired to build such a church by the construction of the Empire State Building. Staude initially attempted to do this in Budapest, Hungary with […]