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Bringing James to Texas
Back with James
23. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Just picked up James in Lubbock. He's already got some swag. Heading back to Flagstaff again, to get his car.
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RejsendeYay, I forgot he's so serious. Is he a lawyer?
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RejsendeHe will be. He's studying to be one.
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RejsendeNice! Good choice
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Billy the Kid
23. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 88 °F
One of the Wild West's most infamous criminals, William H Bonny (Billy the Kid) was shot and killed here in Fort Sumner. This is his grave along with two of his gang.

His gravestone has been stolen twice, once in 1951, where it was missing for 26 years before being found again in Texas, and then again in 1981, found 4 days later in California. So now it's in a cage.

Story of Billy the Kid's death - https://www.history.com/news/billy-the-kid-deat…

Story of Joe Grant's death - https://truewestmagazine.com/billy-the-kid-outf…Læs mere
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Never closed for a minute in 90 years
23. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 75 °F
Today has been constant driving to get back to Arizona. We've only made Roadside stops really. One of those was Clines Corners.

Clines Corner in New Mexico first opened its gas station and store in 1934. It's been open 24 hours, 7 days a week, ever since. It was originally on Route 66, which has since become the I40 on this stretch.

I've a feeling the cars were much cooler when it first opened.Læs mere
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RejsendeThat's some record.
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RejsendeIt's pretty good
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James gets his car back
24. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
We're back in Flagstaff. James is reunited with his car. Fingers-crossed that it works.
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Rejsende She is right. Ha ha
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RejsendeYes!
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RejsendeDella is like "okay, I have a plan!" 😁
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RejsendeExactly. Della can make things very simple and much more fun
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RejsendeShe's actually so cute on this picture
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Left or right?
24. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Navigating around Flagstaff.
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Sigh! Time to say goodbye
24. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
The car seems fine. He's been driving it about an hour. James is going to head south east now to San Angelo, his home for the next 10 weeks. 😢

I'm going back to New Mexico and then North and home that way. It's going to be a very different trip without James.Læs mere
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RejsendeSafe travels to you both. A new exciting time for James x
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RejsendeYes it is 💙
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RejsendeSafe travels!
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Cheering myself up
24. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Getting to have one of my favorite Navajo snacks, their delicious fry bread. One savory and one sweet. The perfect lunch.

I also stocked up with more blue cornflour to make my favorite tacos.

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Rejsende You mentioned this to me in Monument. I never did try it out.
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RejsendeDang. Yes, I was in the Navajo nation, which includes monument valley. I'm thinking about going home that way, but not sure yet.
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RejsendeWish I was with you, I'd go back in a heartbeat x
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Los Alamos
24. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
A recreation of the main post gate that Oppenheimer and his team would pass each time they entered the facility to work on the Manhattan project.

I have had the oportunity to visit both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2019. So strange to now be visiting the place where both those bombs were created.

Just arrived and it's getting dark already. Need to think about where I will be camping.Læs mere
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Project leaders
24. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
Oppenheimer and Groves before they looked like Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon.

Della really doesn't like bronze statutes. She did not want to go near them.

The statues are standing in front of the Fuller Lodge, built in 1928, and used as a school until it was purchased by the Manhattan Project in 1942.Læs mere
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RejsendeMatt Damon isn't in good shape here. I guess Della shame him for that 😂
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RejsendeShe should be shaming me for that
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RejsendeNo, you is different, you're feeding her 😁
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The house at Otowi Bridge
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
This unassuming abandoned home has been a train station, a post office and a restaurant among other things in its time. The last resident, Edith Warner was hired here to manage the train station and remained after the station closed to open a shop, tea room and restaurant. Oppenheimer had a standing reservation here during the Manhattan Project, when he chose to dine at places other than the lodge.Læs mere
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Taking sports too seriously?
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
At the end of the day, it's just a game. That's why I kind of like the Los Alamos' Pierotti Clowns. They formed in 1953 when Los Alamos was still surrounded by security fencing and army checkpoints, and was a very serious town indeed. Launched by two brothers who owned the local soda fountain, the Pierotti's.

The team were famous for playing with just 5 players on 9 player leagues, and of course being dressed as clowns, including face paint. Despite their comedic appearance, they won 177 of their 202 games over the 25 years that they played.

They also appeared in the first edition of Sports Illustrated in 1954 (incorporated into the mural).

So yes this is a mural, celebrating the team, in downtown Los Alamos. Della is too serious for this kind of thing.Læs mere
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Inside the Bradbury Museum
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Very different perspective, but same story, as the Hiroshima museum.
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RejsendeOoh, that's the story. Okay...
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Looking down from the Mesa
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
Los Alamos is on top of a Mesa, which was appealing to Stokes for security reasons. This is the view before I descend and head to Colorado.
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The road from Los Alamos to Colorado
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Beautiful drive north today, from New Mexico to Colorado
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RejsendeBeautiful places
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Great Dunes National Park
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
Such an astonishing sight! That's part of the Rockies behind, and the mountain of sand that has blown against them are the dunes. I actually drove through a sandstorm on the way in. Truly remarkable to see snow and sand dunes in one Vista.Læs mere
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RejsendeBeautiful!!
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RejsendeSpectacular 😍
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Off-roading a bit
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
This was at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Before the puncture of course.
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Damn
25. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ 🌬 55 °F
I got a flat tyre and had to change it. Now I only have a compact spare, so this will limit my speed to 55 mph all the way home. No way to get the tyre repaired as tomorrow is Sunday and Monday is a holiday.Læs mere
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RejsendeOh, no! Better than not having any spare at all. Drive safe!
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RejsendeVery true 💙
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Rejsende Oh No!! Hope you've a spare!
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RejsendeYes. A compact one, but yes.
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Morning Coffee in Colorado
26. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 39 °F
We arrived in Durango after dark and left before daylight, so we've stopped off in the San Juan forest at first light to brew some coffee and to give Della a little run around. And of course in the hope of seeing a bear.

We're at high altitude and it's nice and windy. I have my hoodie on. I love weather like this.Læs mere
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RejsendeIt looks beautiful!
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RejsendeHonestly, everywhere is beautiful on this trip.
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RejsendeAlthough I fear the camping, all the senaries you’re posting making me think it’s not so bad.😉
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RejsendeWhat's the worst that could happen? Get eaten by a bear? 🐻
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The road from Durango to Flagstaff
26. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
Today's drive, mainly through the Navajo Nation.
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RejsendeBeautiful landscape
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Monumental
26. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
A quick visit to Monument Valley
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RejsendeWow!
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RejsendeIt's one of the best places to visit in the USA.
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RejsendeAdding to my list ☺️
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Hoping to get my tire repaired
27. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 55 °F
Most places are closed on Memorial day, but I've been told this one will be open at 8am. A guy from Colorado was told the same. We are both waiting.

We've now learned it won't open. I'm driving over to another place and he is trying a different one.

Okay mine was a no go, but he called me and he had found the only open tire change place in FlagstaffLæs mere
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RejsendeGood luck!
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RejsendeThanks, it worked out in the end
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Rejsende🤞🏻
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RejsendeThanks, it worked out in the end
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Fixed - 770 miles to go
27. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
That's done. I had to get a new tire.
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RejsendeGlad that is done.
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RejsendeYay! Congratulations!
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RejsendeOh, good!👍
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The Americana Motel
27. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
Looks like it's from the 50's or 60's. Colorful and plastic. I wish I'd seen it sooner, I would have stayed a night. They even have a working payphone.
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RejsendeIt’s cute.
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Late breakfast at the Roadkill Cafe
27. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
I didn't cook at camp as I wanted to get the tire fixed early. Since only half of that happened, I decided to grab some breakfast here for old times sake. The gravy is still every bit as good as I remembered.Læs mere
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RejsendeMmm, sounds like a good breakfast. Well, every breakfast is good with gravy 😋😋
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Rejsende😂 So true
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RejsendeMark, did I see that place?
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RejsendeYes 😁
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Area 66
27. maj 2024, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 93 °F
It's called Area 66, (a mash-up between the famous Area 51 and the famous road Route 66 that it's on).

The golf ball was originally a realtor's office, but they all ended up in prison for selling property that didn't exist. It was purchased and repurposed into a UFO museum and diner.

Like so many things, it suffered during the government lockdowns and now it's closed.Læs mere
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