Almost tall enough to reach over and tap Small Sitting Man on the shoulder!

Have you tried bighorn sheep bacon with delicious canned chicken in a rice-and-lentil stew? If you do, let me know how it is.

You're close enough to scratch his belly! (That's the best way to determine whether a snake is friendly or not.)

That looks like the spine of a sleeping creature!

This is a great photo of you, Rachael! You look like a natural on that rock.

Watch out, Alex Honnold!

Flowers in North America are fairly easy with the search and ID info online nowadays.
My degree from Arizona State U. in Tempe was Zoology, (Herpetology was my favorite) so sometimes I actually remember a few key things about critters. Too bad there isn't the same search capabilities for insects though.

Croak!

Well, now that’s impressive. I expected a suggestion about the flower, but not the fly.

That's cool that you got to talk with the innkeeper about the history. Hard to imagine what it must have felt like as a crowded crash pad for miners! They really made it look beautiful.

Nevermore!

Looks like brittlebush flowers...

https://www.desertusa.com/flowers/Brittlebush.html

And a fly, possibly a syrphid fly. Note the antennae and eyes.

https://bugguide.net/node/view/196

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your prompt reply. Your real-user answers provide a good balance to the Ride with GPS website info-jargon. We will probably start with a basic subscription and figure it out as we go along. We also plan to set up a blog and will be sure to let you know our CycleBlaze name once we get started in mid-April.

We had sheets at a guest house once that said, "We in life lucky."

I'm taking you up on that coffee offer at Spielman's the next time we see each other.

It was an easy call to turn back here. It wasn’t even all that easy to cross the road to turn back. All’s well that ends well though. Better to be lucky than smart, I always say.

Really incredible scenery!