Bringing James to Texas

Pengembaraan 14hari oleh Gunnshots & James Baca lagi

Ikuti Ringkasan Kalendar Gambar Kongsi

Terbaharu dahulu

Bringing James to Texas
Back with James
23 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Just picked up James in Lubbock. He's already got some swag. Heading back to Flagstaff again, to get his car.
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraYay, I forgot he's so serious. Is he a lawyer?
24/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraHe will be. He's studying to be one.
24/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraNice! Good choice
24/05/24BalasTerjemah
2 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Billy the Kid
23 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 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…Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
3 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Never closed for a minute in 90 years
23 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraThat's some record.
24/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraIt's pretty good
24/05/24BalasTerjemah
3 suka
Bringing James to Texas
2
James gets his car back
24 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
We're back in Flagstaff. James is reunited with his car. Fingers-crossed that it works.
Lihat terjemahan
Pengembara She is right. Ha ha
24/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraYes!
25/05/24Balas
PengembaraDella is like "okay, I have a plan!" 😁
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraExactly. Della can make things very simple and much more fun
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraShe's actually so cute on this picture
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara💙
25/05/24Balas
5 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Left or right?
24 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Navigating around Flagstaff.
Lihat terjemahan
4 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Sigh! Time to say goodbye
24 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraSafe travels to you both. A new exciting time for James x
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraYes it is 💙
25/05/24Balas
PengembaraSafe travels!
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara💙
25/05/24Balas
2 suka
Bringing James to Texas
4
Cheering myself up
24 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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.

Delicious.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
Pengembara You mentioned this to me in Monument. I never did try it out.
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraDang. Yes, I was in the Navajo nation, which includes monument valley. I'm thinking about going home that way, but not sure yet.
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraWish I was with you, I'd go back in a heartbeat x
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara💙
25/05/24Balas
2 lagi komen
4 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Los Alamos
24 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
2 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Project leaders
24 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraMatt Damon isn't in good shape here. I guess Della shame him for that 😂
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraShe should be shaming me for that
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraNo, you is different, you're feeding her 😁
25/05/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara🤣
25/05/24Balas
2 suka
Bringing James to Texas
The house at Otowi Bridge
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
1 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Taking sports too seriously?
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
3 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Inside the Bradbury Museum
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Very different perspective, but same story, as the Hiroshima museum.
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraOoh, that's the story. Okay...
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
3 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Looking down from the Mesa
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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.
Lihat terjemahan
0 suka
Bringing James to Texas
The road from Los Alamos to Colorado
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Beautiful drive north today, from New Mexico to Colorado
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraBeautiful places
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara💙
26/05/24Balas
3 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Great Dunes National Park
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraBeautiful!!
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraSpectacular 😍
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
5 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Off-roading a bit
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
This was at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Before the puncture of course.
Lihat terjemahan
1 suka
Bringing James to Texas
2
1
Damn
25 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌬 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraOh, no! Better than not having any spare at all. Drive safe!
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraVery true 💙
26/05/24Balas
Pengembara Oh No!! Hope you've a spare!
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraYes. A compact one, but yes.
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
3 lagi komen
2 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Morning Coffee in Colorado
26 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraIt looks beautiful!
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraHonestly, everywhere is beautiful on this trip.
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraAlthough I fear the camping, all the senaries you’re posting making me think it’s not so bad.😉
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraWhat's the worst that could happen? Get eaten by a bear? 🐻
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
5 lagi komen
1 suka
Bringing James to Texas
The road from Durango to Flagstaff
26 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
Today's drive, mainly through the Navajo Nation.
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraBeautiful landscape
26/05/24BalasTerjemah
2 suka
Bringing James to Texas
1
2 1
Monumental
26 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
A quick visit to Monument Valley
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraWow!
26/05/24Balas
PengembaraIt's one of the best places to visit in the USA.
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraAdding to my list ☺️
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
6 lagi komen
3 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Hoping to get my tire repaired
27 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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 FlagstaffBaca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraGood luck!
27/05/24Balas
PengembaraThanks, it worked out in the end
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara🤞🏻
27/05/24Balas
PengembaraThanks, it worked out in the end
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
1 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Fixed - 770 miles to go
27 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
That's done. I had to get a new tire.
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraGlad that is done.
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraYay! Congratulations!
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraOh, good!👍
28/05/24Balas
3 suka
Bringing James to Texas
The Americana Motel
27 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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.
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraIt’s cute.
28/05/24BalasTerjemah
5 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Late breakfast at the Roadkill Cafe
27 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
PengembaraMmm, sounds like a good breakfast. Well, every breakfast is good with gravy 😋😋
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
Pengembara😂 So true
27/05/24Balas
PengembaraMark, did I see that place?
27/05/24BalasTerjemah
PengembaraYes 😁
27/05/24Balas
4 suka
Bringing James to Texas
Area 66
27 Mei 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 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.Baca lagi
Lihat terjemahan
3 suka