Colleen, Author at silvervagabonds.com

Our Search for Wild Horses

Post author:Colleen
Post published:November 21, 2020
Post category:Adventure Drone Exploring Photos Videos Wildlife

Yesterday we headed out very early in search of wild horses at Salt Creek River near Lost Dutchman State Park. We were prepared to fail as we took fishing equipment as well as art work to spend the day at the river. There are about 5 areas of Salt Creek that you can get to the river to see the horses. We started at Granite Reef Recreation area...nothing but horse poop! We continued to Coon Bluff Recreation area...no horses but plenty of horse poop. So we decided to try fishing...first we fly fished, great fun, but no fish and…

Superstition Mountain Hike

Post author:Colleen
Post published:November 18, 2020
Post category:Adventure Exploring Hiking Videos

Today we headed out to the Superstition Mountains in search of gold! We hiked up the Treasure Loop Trail with a destination of the “Green Rock”. The whole time we were wondering how hilarious it would be if we found the gold mine....What we would do with a gold mine? Given we are retired it was decided that we would have to sell it to the highest bidder. Legend tells of the Lost Dutchman gold mine somewhere within the 160,000 acres of the Superstition Mountains. The gold mine and the mother lode is estimated to be worth $200 million! We…

Leaving Sedona

Post author:Colleen
Post published:November 17, 2020
Post category:Adventure Exploring

Yesterday was bittersweet, leaving the Sedona area. We had been there for about 3 weeks exploring every corner. I am not sure what is so mesmerizing about Sedona, the colors, the terrain or maybe it is the magic of the vortexes! Anyway, we loved it! This was our 2nd time visiting Sedona, the last visit we were able to take a hot air balloon flight. We have added a picture to show the beauty from above. We moved on to Lost Dutchman State Park. We have read it was a special “must see”, but had to see it to believe…