Back with James
23 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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.
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Never closed for a minute in 90 years
23 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 inЧитать далее
James gets his car back
24 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
We're back in Flagstaff. James is reunited with his car. Fingers-crossed that it works.
ПутешественникExactly. Della can make things very simple and much more fun
Left or right?
24 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Navigating around Flagstaff.
Sigh! Time to say goodbye
24 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 homeЧитать далее
Cheering myself up
24 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 favoriteЧитать далее
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You mentioned this to me in Monument. I never did try it out.
ПутешественникDang. 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 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 HiroshimaЧитать далее
Project leaders
24 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 theЧитать далее
ПутешественникMatt Damon isn't in good shape here. I guess Della shame him for that 😂
The house at Otowi Bridge
25 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 andЧитать далее
Taking sports too seriously?
25 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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,Читать далее
Inside the Bradbury Museum
25 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Very different perspective, but same story, as the Hiroshima museum.
Looking down from the Mesa
25 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Beautiful drive north today, from New Mexico to Colorado
Great Dunes National Park
25 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 remarkableЧитать далее
Off-roading a bit
25 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
This was at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Before the puncture of course.
Damn
25 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ 🌬 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 aЧитать далее
ПутешественникOh, no! Better than not having any spare at all. Drive safe!
Morning Coffee in Colorado
26 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 theЧитать далее
ПутешественникAlthough I fear the camping, all the senaries you’re posting making me think it’s not so bad.😉
ПутешественникWhat's the worst that could happen? Get eaten by a bear? 🐻
The road from Durango to Flagstaff
26 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
Today's drive, mainly through the Navajo Nation.
Monumental
26 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
A quick visit to Monument Valley
Hoping to get my tire repaired
27 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 overЧитать далее
Fixed - 770 miles to go
27 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
That's done. I had to get a new tire.
The Americana Motel
27 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☁️ 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 IЧитать далее
ПутешественникMmm, sounds like a good breakfast. Well, every breakfast is good with gravy 😋😋
Area 66
27 мая 2024 г., Соединенные Штаты ⋅ ☀️ 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 sellingЧитать далее
ПутешественникYay, I forgot he's so serious. Is he a lawyer?
ПутешественникHe will be. He's studying to be one.
ПутешественникNice! Good choice