Southwest Roadtrip 2015 Archives

27 May 2015

Retrospective

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 1

So yeah, I didn’t blog on days 15 and 16. Here they are in a nutshell: Day 15 I hiked to Angels Landing in Zion National Park. (Except I didn’t go all the way to Angels Landing. I stopped at … Continued

22 May 2015

My Zion

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 2

I’m not posting any pics of Zion. Well, okay, just one. That’s the view from my balcony at Zion Lodge.

21 May 2015

Everything or Nothing

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 1

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 … Continued

20 May 2015

No Ocean

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 1

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 … Continued

18 May 2015

Twisty

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 0

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 … Continued

17 May 2015

Perspective

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 2

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.

16 May 2015

Pueblo

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 0

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 … Continued

15 May 2015

Ladders

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 0

I climbed some ladders today.

14 May 2015

Gabby Docents

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 0

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 … Continued

13 May 2015

Fun with weather

by Lane | posted in: Southwest Roadtrip 2015 | 0

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 … Continued

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