My Zion
I’m not posting any pics of Zion. Well, okay, just one. That’s the view from my balcony at Zion Lodge.
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Everything or Nothing
I’ve spent the better part of two weeks exploring some of the most stunning scenery I’ve ever encountered, and today in Bryce Canyon, everything I saw was as beautiful as everything I’ve seen. Which led me to wonder… If everything is beautiful, is anything beautiful?
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No Ocean
In the last two days I drove from Telluride, Colorado, to Bryce, Utah. I drove through a number of small towns, and the much larger communities of Monticello and Blanding, Utah, and I detoured to Natural Bridges National Monument before stopping for the night in Mexican Hat, Utah. Then I continued south through Monument Valley…
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Twisty
I left Durango this morning, heading north on US-550 through Silverton, Ouray, and Ridgway, then southwest and then southeast to Telluride. The drive was spectacular. They had a lot of snow in the mountains yesterday, so it was like driving through a winter wonderland. The road was also twisty as it climbed up and down…
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Perspective
One of the reasons I love traveling in Europe is because there is stuff to see that people built five hundred or a thousand years ago. In the USA, there’s nothing that old. Except there is.
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Pueblo
It turns out I didn’t know what a pueblo is. I thought it was a structure. But it is actually a community. In fact, the word “pueblo” comes from Castilian for town or village and has the same Latin root as the English word “people.” I visited Taos Pueblo today and learned a lot about…
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Ladders
I climbed some ladders today.
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Gabby Docents
Today was the first day of my trip that I didn’t use my car at all. I just walked around Santa Fe all day. I can definitely see the allure of this city. It has an arty, healthy, hip, funky vibe and even though it’s a small city (about 75,000 people), it has a lot…
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Fun with weather
I stopped for lunch yesterday (I was too exhausted to blog last night) in Gallup, New Mexico, which seems like it got stuck in time during the Route 66 era. It was probably 70 degrees in Gallup, and I walked around in a short-sleeve shirt. A half hour further east, I drove through a lightning storm,…
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A Seattlite in the Sun
I stopped at a local grocery store this evening and picked up some fixin’s for dinner instead of eating at a restaurant. The reasons I did this: (1) I was too tired to sit in a restaurant and entertain myself while eating dinner; (2) I have been eating a lot of food that isn’t green,…
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Too much for one post
I should probably make three separate posts to cover today. But I won’t.
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Nice Hole
My expectations of the Grand Canyon:
