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Our vacation from w. Texas to the Pacific NW has been packed full of wonderous sights, I LOVE the desert and all the rocks!
Left Friday am - I am trying to do all the flying in the mornings, low level, and vfr so we can enjoy the sights and it is working out great. Got to Santa Fe NM and stayed 2 nights. Lots of walking around the Plaza, plenty of history to take in, Trolley tour, hike in the mountains (should have taken O2!), drive up to the bluff overlooking the Rio Grande; gorgeous skies with a huge thermonuclear cloud each afternoon over the mountains, restaurants out the wazoo, movies (not the usual hollywood baloney), stayed in an apartment decked out with all really ancient wood and multicolored adobe.
This am (Sun) left KSAF for Moab, Utah with diversions to check out Shiprock (see pic) in nw NM, the Four Corners (too much desert so no fences or manmade indications of the state lines...just the cars and RVs milling around the marker), then over Natural Bridge, direct Lake Powell and north along the deep canyon of the Colorado River into Moab.
Landed, got car and hotel, headed off to the Arches Nat Park..AMAZING rock formations!! Some of them are astounding with their size and sheer faces, standing alone unsupported as if they do not belong there. Some you would swear were huge fields of mud that trucks had dumped in neat piles. Some of the groups of columns made me laugh they looked so ridiculous, like something you would give to kids (very large kids) to play with! Huge arches of rock, gigantic holes in the rock. Gorgeous colors. Pics not indicative of the enormity and beauty of the place.
Wiped out by too much fun, too much sun. Tried to stay ahead of the dehydration game with forced water breaks, but still no "P" til after the second beer tonight!
I love the SW desert! You guys have to see this place in person.
Left Friday am - I am trying to do all the flying in the mornings, low level, and vfr so we can enjoy the sights and it is working out great. Got to Santa Fe NM and stayed 2 nights. Lots of walking around the Plaza, plenty of history to take in, Trolley tour, hike in the mountains (should have taken O2!), drive up to the bluff overlooking the Rio Grande; gorgeous skies with a huge thermonuclear cloud each afternoon over the mountains, restaurants out the wazoo, movies (not the usual hollywood baloney), stayed in an apartment decked out with all really ancient wood and multicolored adobe.
This am (Sun) left KSAF for Moab, Utah with diversions to check out Shiprock (see pic) in nw NM, the Four Corners (too much desert so no fences or manmade indications of the state lines...just the cars and RVs milling around the marker), then over Natural Bridge, direct Lake Powell and north along the deep canyon of the Colorado River into Moab.
Landed, got car and hotel, headed off to the Arches Nat Park..AMAZING rock formations!! Some of them are astounding with their size and sheer faces, standing alone unsupported as if they do not belong there. Some you would swear were huge fields of mud that trucks had dumped in neat piles. Some of the groups of columns made me laugh they looked so ridiculous, like something you would give to kids (very large kids) to play with! Huge arches of rock, gigantic holes in the rock. Gorgeous colors. Pics not indicative of the enormity and beauty of the place.
Wiped out by too much fun, too much sun. Tried to stay ahead of the dehydration game with forced water breaks, but still no "P" til after the second beer tonight!
I love the SW desert! You guys have to see this place in person.
