Back with James
2024年5月23日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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
2024年5月23日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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もっと詳しく
Never closed for a minute in 90 years
2024年5月23日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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もっと詳しく
James gets his car back
2024年5月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
We're back in Flagstaff. James is reunited with his car. Fingers-crossed that it works.
Left or right?
2024年5月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Navigating around Flagstaff.
Sigh! Time to say goodbye
2024年5月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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もっと詳しく
Cheering myself up
2024年5月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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もっと詳しく
旅行者Dang. 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
2024年5月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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もっと詳しく
Project leaders
2024年5月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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もっと詳しく
The house at Otowi Bridge
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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もっと詳しく
Taking sports too seriously?
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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,もっと詳しく
Inside the Bradbury Museum
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Very different perspective, but same story, as the Hiroshima museum.
Looking down from the Mesa
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Beautiful drive north today, from New Mexico to Colorado
Great Dunes National Park
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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もっと詳しく
Off-roading a bit
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
This was at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Before the puncture of course.
Damn
2024年5月25日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 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もっと詳しく
Morning Coffee in Colorado
2024年5月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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もっと詳しく
旅行者Although I fear the camping, all the senaries you’re posting making me think it’s not so bad.😉
The road from Durango to Flagstaff
2024年5月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
Today's drive, mainly through the Navajo Nation.
Monumental
2024年5月26日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
A quick visit to Monument Valley
Hoping to get my tire repaired
2024年5月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 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もっと詳しく
Fixed - 770 miles to go
2024年5月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
That's done. I had to get a new tire.
The Americana Motel
2024年5月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年5月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 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もっと詳しく
旅行者Yay, I forgot he's so serious. Is he a lawyer?
旅行者He will be. He's studying to be one.
旅行者Nice! Good choice