First Rest stop
15. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
First stop to give Della a break.
Lost hills
15. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
Fuel Stop for James
Another Della rest stop
15. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
Peach trees
Desert bloom
15. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
A Creosote bush in the Mojave desert
Space port
15. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 88 °F
This is the Air and Space port in Mojave. This was the launch site of Spaceship One and is still a significant area of air and space research.
Painted rocks
15. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
Camping in the desert
15. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
We've found a patch of desert that will call home tonight. It was dark when we arrived, so we're not exactly sure where we are. At least a couple of miles from other humans which is the main thing.
First view of our campsite this morning
16. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 66 °F
Still not daylight
Morning in Joshua Tree
16. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
A few random shots from this morning. We were at the park by about dawn and left around 11
ReisendeTexas is so different from California. Landscape reminds me of Breaking Bad.
ReisendeThis was actually still in California. We're driving to Texas over a few days. Tonight we're in Arizona and tomorrow in New Mexico which is where breaking bad was filmed.
ReisendeOh, wow! California is different than what I saw 😁 waiting for more pictures from New Mexico 🙌
ReisendeWell eat at the chicken restaurant from the show and use the car wash
My first Rattlesnake
16. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
Crossing the road in Joshua Tree National Park Hopefully better pictures to follow. James spotted it first.
The town that time forgot
16. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 97 °F
Roy's in Amboy.
We'd better get out before they test another bomb..
Camping in Coconino National Forest
16. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌙 55 °F
Tonight we're outside Flagstaff in Arizona. Dinner has been made and eaten. All the food locked up as we're in Bear country again. Nice and cool tonight.
Car Problems
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
James got an error code on his 'new' car, so we decided to be better safe than sorry and brought it in to to get checked. We're going to spend an extra day in Arizona, around Flagstaff, maybe headLes mer
Pendley's Orchards
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
What is now Sliding Rock State Park, was once an apple farm owned by the Pendley family. Crazy to see the green of apple trees against the barren red rock of the escarpmemts all around. A beautifulLes mer
Views as we approach Sedona
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
A few first glimpses of the Red rocks of Sedona.
Church of the Holy Cross
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
We've ended up in Sedona. Interesting chapel build into the rock.
Crescent Moon Ranch
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
We had lunch and took a walk with Della here under the Cathedral mesa this afternoon.
The view from Lover's Knoll
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
There were a pair of lovers there too, getting wedding pictures taken. This has echos of Monument Valley
Bad news
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
Car needs a new pump which they won't get until Tuesday. James starts in Lubbock Texas on Wednesday (10 hours away).
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Camping in high chapperal
17. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 75 °F
Because of the car woes, we're still in the Coconino National forest tonight about 30 miles east, on the other side of Flagstaff. A very different terrain than last night and I would say at least 10Les mer
2 Gunns visiting 2 Guns
18. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
A ghost town build on an area of Indian history, then a trading post, ultimately a town with a post office. It even has a zoo at one point.
Russell Crowe bought the town in 2011 with the intent ofLes mer
They spelt Gunn wrong again
18. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
The Apache Death Cave
18. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
A cave that a group of Navajo found hiding Apaches, before killing all 42 of them in retribution for another massacre that the Apache inflicted on the Navajo.
The 2 Guns Zoo
18. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
Check out the videos for a bit more information
ReisendeSo not crazy old. The owner of the zoo was crazy it seems. He shot an unarmed neighbor dead, but somehow was acquitted. He was savagely mauled by one of his mountain lions, and bitten by several of his snakes
Visiting the Petrified Forest NP
18. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
The main attraction of the park are the petrified remains of trees that were growing back 225 million years ago in the Triassic when Arizona, North America and pretty much everywhere was still part ofLes mer
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It just popped up to say hello
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Oops
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See anything?
ReisendeYou're traveling with Della, what a journey for her 🐕🦺🐕🦺