Back with James
23. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Just picked up James in Lubbock. He's already got some swag. Heading back to Flagstaff again, to get his car.
Billy the Kid
23. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ 🌬 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 stolenWeiterlesen
Never closed for a minute in 90 years
23. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ 🌬 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 inWeiterlesen
James gets his car back
24. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
We're back in Flagstaff. James is reunited with his car. Fingers-crossed that it works.
Left or right?
24. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Navigating around Flagstaff.
Sigh! Time to say goodbye
24. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 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 homeWeiterlesen
Cheering myself up
24. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 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 favoriteWeiterlesen
ReisenderDang. Yes, I was in the Navajo nation, which includes monument valley. I'm thinking about going home that way, but not sure yet.
Los Alamos
24. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 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 HiroshimaWeiterlesen
Project leaders
24. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 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 theWeiterlesen
ReisenderMatt Damon isn't in good shape here. I guess Della shame him for that 😂
The house at Otowi Bridge
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 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 andWeiterlesen
Taking sports too seriously?
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 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,Weiterlesen
Inside the Bradbury Museum
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Very different perspective, but same story, as the Hiroshima museum.
Looking down from the Mesa
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 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.
The road from Los Alamos to Colorado
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Beautiful drive north today, from New Mexico to Colorado
Great Dunes National Park
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ 🌬 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 remarkableWeiterlesen
Off-roading a bit
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
This was at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Before the puncture of course.
Damn
25. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ 🌬 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 aWeiterlesen
Morning Coffee in Colorado
26. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 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 theWeiterlesen
ReisenderAlthough I fear the camping, all the senaries you’re posting making me think it’s not so bad.😉
The road from Durango to Flagstaff
26. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
Today's drive, mainly through the Navajo Nation.
Monumental
26. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
A quick visit to Monument Valley
Hoping to get my tire repaired
27. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 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 overWeiterlesen
Fixed - 770 miles to go
27. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
That's done. I had to get a new tire.
The Americana Motel
27. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 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.
Late breakfast at the Roadkill Cafe
27. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 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 IWeiterlesen
ReisenderMmm, sounds like a good breakfast. Well, every breakfast is good with gravy 😋😋
Area 66
27. Mai 2024 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 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 sellingWeiterlesen
ReisenderYay, I forgot he's so serious. Is he a lawyer?
ReisenderHe will be. He's studying to be one.
ReisenderNice! Good choice