Bringing James to Texas

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Bringing James to Texas
Back with James
23. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Just picked up James in Lubbock. He's already got some swag. Heading back to Flagstaff again, to get his car.
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ReisendeYay, I forgot he's so serious. Is he a lawyer?
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ReisendeHe will be. He's studying to be one.
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ReisendeNice! Good choice
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Billy the Kid
23. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 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…Les mer
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Never closed for a minute in 90 years
23. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 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.Les mer
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ReisendeThat's some record.
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ReisendeIt's pretty good
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James gets his car back
24. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
We're back in Flagstaff. James is reunited with his car. Fingers-crossed that it works.
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Reisende She is right. Ha ha
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ReisendeYes!
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ReisendeDella is like "okay, I have a plan!" 😁
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ReisendeExactly. Della can make things very simple and much more fun
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ReisendeShe's actually so cute on this picture
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Left or right?
24. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
Navigating around Flagstaff.
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Sigh! Time to say goodbye
24. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 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.Les mer
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ReisendeSafe travels to you both. A new exciting time for James x
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ReisendeYes it is 💙
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ReisendeSafe travels!
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Cheering myself up
24. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 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.Les mer
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Reisende You mentioned this to me in Monument. I never did try it out.
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ReisendeDang. Yes, I was in the Navajo nation, which includes monument valley. I'm thinking about going home that way, but not sure yet.
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ReisendeWish I was with you, I'd go back in a heartbeat x
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Los Alamos
24. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 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.Les mer
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Project leaders
24. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 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.Les mer
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ReisendeMatt Damon isn't in good shape here. I guess Della shame him for that 😂
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ReisendeShe should be shaming me for that
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ReisendeNo, you is different, you're feeding her 😁
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The house at Otowi Bridge
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.Les mer
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Taking sports too seriously?
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.Les mer
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Inside the Bradbury Museum
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Very different perspective, but same story, as the Hiroshima museum.
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ReisendeOoh, that's the story. Okay...
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Looking down from the Mesa
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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The road from Los Alamos to Colorado
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 63 °F
Beautiful drive north today, from New Mexico to Colorado
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ReisendeBeautiful places
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Great Dunes National Park
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 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.Les mer
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ReisendeBeautiful!!
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ReisendeSpectacular 😍
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Off-roading a bit
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 57 °F
This was at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Before the puncture of course.
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Damn
25. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ 🌬 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.Les mer
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ReisendeOh, no! Better than not having any spare at all. Drive safe!
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ReisendeVery true 💙
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Reisende Oh No!! Hope you've a spare!
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ReisendeYes. A compact one, but yes.
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Morning Coffee in Colorado
26. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.Les mer
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ReisendeIt looks beautiful!
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ReisendeHonestly, everywhere is beautiful on this trip.
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ReisendeAlthough I fear the camping, all the senaries you’re posting making me think it’s not so bad.😉
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ReisendeWhat's the worst that could happen? Get eaten by a bear? 🐻
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The road from Durango to Flagstaff
26. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 43 °F
Today's drive, mainly through the Navajo Nation.
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ReisendeBeautiful landscape
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Monumental
26. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
A quick visit to Monument Valley
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ReisendeWow!
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ReisendeIt's one of the best places to visit in the USA.
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ReisendeAdding to my list ☺️
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Hoping to get my tire repaired
27. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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 FlagstaffLes mer
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ReisendeGood luck!
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ReisendeThanks, it worked out in the end
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Reisende🤞🏻
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ReisendeThanks, it worked out in the end
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Fixed - 770 miles to go
27. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
That's done. I had to get a new tire.
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ReisendeGlad that is done.
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ReisendeYay! Congratulations!
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ReisendeOh, good!👍
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The Americana Motel
27. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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ReisendeIt’s cute.
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Late breakfast at the Roadkill Cafe
27. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☁️ 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.Les mer
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ReisendeMmm, sounds like a good breakfast. Well, every breakfast is good with gravy 😋😋
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Reisende😂 So true
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ReisendeMark, did I see that place?
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ReisendeYes 😁
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Area 66
27. mai 2024, Forente stater ⋅ ☀️ 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.Les mer
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