A Journey around the Country
This is a mostly photo log of our trip around the country
during August and September 2005. I kept a Blog at
http://360.yahoo.com/carelsrb
with almost daily commentary as well as pictures, but here I will be editing the
photos and adding commentary.
The pictures are all thumbnails so a click on them
will produce a larger version.
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| This map shows our route beginning at the New Mexico Border and continuing on to Arizona. |
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| The first picture of the trip taken at the first rest stop in West Virginia on I-68. Looking west the road is seen as climbs out of the valleys. | Threatening clouds ahead as we drive through the Oklahoma. | They eventually gave us about 30 minutes of fairly heavy rain |
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| On the left is our GPS which for the most part gave us good directions and on the right is a Sirius satellite radio for good music wherever we were. | We arrive at the welcome center on I-40 on the 5th day of the trip. | Very eastern New Mexico, western Texas panhandle looks like this. Taken at the Welcome center. |
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| More shots from the welcome center looking out across the range land. | Renata taking a break | More range land with some hills showing in the distance |
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| Later on we got these clouds beginning to form overhead | The view off to the side of the road. | In Albuquerque now and this is a view looking west from the 3rd floor of My Aunt's building, which is in the northeast corner of the city. |
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| Heading north out of Albuquerque now on Rt. 550 for Farmington, NM. Most of this land is part of Indian Pueblo's | Dry land with some grazing cattle. | and a lot of wild flowers along the road. |
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| The varied colored rock strata in the formation makes a striking view as we come over the crest of the hill. Still on Rt. 550. | Here a Butte rises up in the distance. | The yellow flowers are found all over the west along side the road. They are I think a variety of sunflower. |
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| The view stretches out forever it seems and the clouds shine white against the blue sky. | Shiprock Located south of Rt.64 in North Western NM. in the Navajo Nation. http://www.lapahie.com/Shiprock_Peak.cfm |
Here the road is descending down into a canyon as we head towards Kayenta, Arizona |