Back with James
23 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 stolenLäs mer
Never closed for a minute in 90 years
23 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 inLäs mer
James gets his car back
24 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
We're back in Flagstaff. James is reunited with his car. Fingers-crossed that it works.
Left or right?
24 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Navigating around Flagstaff.
Sigh! Time to say goodbye
24 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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 homeLäs mer
Cheering myself up
24 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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 favoriteLäs mer
ResenärDang. 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 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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 HiroshimaLäs mer
Project leaders
24 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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 theLäs mer
The house at Otowi Bridge
25 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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 andLäs mer
Taking sports too seriously?
25 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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,Läs mer
Inside the Bradbury Museum
25 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Very different perspective, but same story, as the Hiroshima museum.
Looking down from the Mesa
25 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Beautiful drive north today, from New Mexico to Colorado
Great Dunes National Park
25 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 remarkableLäs mer
Off-roading a bit
25 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
This was at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Before the puncture of course.
Damn
25 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ 🌬 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 aLäs mer
Morning Coffee in Colorado
26 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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 theLäs mer
ResenärAlthough 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 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
Today's drive, mainly through the Navajo Nation.
Monumental
26 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
A quick visit to Monument Valley
Hoping to get my tire repaired
27 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☀️ 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 overLäs mer
Fixed - 770 miles to go
27 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
That's done. I had to get a new tire.
The Americana Motel
27 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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 maj 2024, Förenta staterna ⋅ ☁️ 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 ILäs mer
ResenärYay, I forgot he's so serious. Is he a lawyer?
ResenärHe will be. He's studying to be one.
ResenärNice! Good choice