Ajo Mountain Drive in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (14 of 419)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was once considered the most dangerous National Park, this Sonoran Desert park is the only place in the US where the Organ Pipe Cactus grows wild. In this video, we drive the scenic Ajo Mountain Drive and do two hikes along the way. We learn about Organ Pipe Cacti and saw other cacti bloom for the first time!
😄 Stick around for bloopers at the end of the video!
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Did you guess correctly how many deserts are there in the United States? 😉
That's a nice piece of GK :)
Four! Right? Cetri!
You just made me realize that I've been to all four! Thanks.
@Dionysios Potamitis, it's fascinating that you are writing in Latvian! Do you know Latvian or use Google Translate? Are you a big fun of languages?
What are your favorite National Park Units in the USA?
I'm partial to Glacier, The Tetons, Seqouia/Kings Canyon, Death Valley, and Grand Staircase/Escalante.
Hi, Living the Silver Life, here, and Bill and I just love your channel. We became full time RVers in April and are loving it too. Enjoy watching your adventures. Beautiful hike!
Welcome! And thanks for the kind comment! I'm glad you are enjoying the full time RV life! and from your videos it looks like you are in Alaska this summer! That's awesome!
We are and really loving Alaska and Canada. There are quite a few National Parks you can check off your list here. 😄
Oh yes, it is quite a big list of National Park Units in Alaska. The logistics to get to all of them will be tough.
Yes, some of them you actually have to fly into or over. 😂
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is one of the two crown jewels on f the National Park System in Arizona, the other being the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The biodiversity of this stunning landscape is amazing! Just finished my second visit (March 23-25, 2021) and was so sad to leave as there is so much to experience. Tent camped at Twin Peaks and was lucky to get the last first come, first served spot. Half of the campsites are closed and those that were open, including the RV sections, were almost full.
The Ajo Mountain Drive and hikes were stunning! The loop drive on North and South Puerto Blanco Drives are open and have several great hikes and points of interest. The springs at Quitobaquito is an amazing desert oasis with a family of American Coots occupying the pond. This was my second visit, the first being in December 2019. Next visit must be during the summer months for the variety of birds plus the monsoon!
Thanks for sharing and I learned a lot from your video. Great video. Love seeing all the flowers. 💖 👍 👍
Thank you! I love seeing the flowers too! :)
Love all the b roll & time lapses. Looks like a beautiful hike!
Thank you!
Another beautiful video. Thank you for taking us along with you. I love “baby organs”.
Thank you Jen! Yeah, "baby organs" came out a bit awkward :D
Loved the video! The cacti blooms were beautiful and as always, thank you for taking me with you! Diana, you looked very pretty and y'all weren't as pale. I can tell y'all are getting more comfortable talking to the camera. I love all the info! Can't wait for the next.💐💞
Thank you @C&M Flowers!
I found you through suggested videos. First your videos are fun to watch. You got some great shots and have some great editing ideas for me to learn. I just made a TH-cam channel so I’m definitely doing my research. Thanks for all your help. - Keep it up! Just subbed!
Thanks! Good luck with your channel!
What a terrific video! The videography was excellent! I felt like I was there for the hike with you both! You both look wonderful and in good health and that is translated into your video. Thank you as always for giving the viewers such a breath of fresh air and making us feel like we are there with you both! Take the best of care and of course, looking forward to the next adventure! Ciao Bella!
Thanks again @nutz4all! Really appreciate your comments!
Very informative, thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Nicely done and educational.
Thank you Harley!
Welcome to the beautiful USA my friends!!
Thanks! Indeed, there are so many beautiful places in the USA and one could spend a lifetime exploring it all.
Beautiful landscape. I had no idea there were 4 desserts in the US..
We didn't know it either before this trip! It's really cool to learn all that!
Thanks for you videos, I'm really enjoying them! Just discovered your channel yesterday. I live in California's Monterey Bay area and will be doing a two week Southwest road trip in October. I plan on visiting a few national parks throughout my journey and am curious about the book you're using to put the national park stamps in. Can you let me know what the book is called and if it can be purchased on Amazon?
Welcome to our channel! Monterey is awesome, we used to live in SF Bay Area and had visited Monterey many times. The book for stamps we are using is called Passport To Your National Parks® Collector's Edition (www.eparks.com/product/128482/Passport-To-Your-National-Parks%C2%AE-Collector%27s-Edition/) - it has space for all the National Park Units.
Before living in the RV, we used the smaller blue version Passport To Your National Parks® Classic Edition (www.eparks.com/product/22515/Passport-To-Your-National-Parks%C2%AE-Classic-Edition/) and each region has limited spaces so we filled one of the regions in three of those books.
They are listed on Amazon (affiliate links below), but unfortunately, they are often out of stock.
The explorer edition: amzn.to/2Lgloi5
Small blue edition: amzn.to/2NMt66J
You can also buy them at pretty much any national park unit bookstore.
@@AdventurousWay Thanks so much for the info on the passport books and thanks for the quality videos! Safe journey!
Beautiful!! #Roamingwithrover
Thank you!
How the Outdoors RV trailer working out still all good and holding up?
Yes, it has been more than a year and our Outdoors RV travel trailer has been doing great! Sure, minor things, like loose screws here and there are inevitable from the rough roads we are taking the trailer on, but nothing major. Overall we are still very happy with it and the places it has taken us.
What national park book are you stamping in?
That’s our National Park Passport- you can find more information here: www.adventurousway.com/blog/what-is-national-park-passport