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Cool Sedona Pigs
December 13, 2010
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The party (vacation) is over… and the road never ends
September 17, 2010The party (vacation) is over. I have been back at work for a week now and regardless of all my good intentions to work less and have a life I am back in the same routine as before vacation. I word 11-12 hours every day regularly and come in on the weekends. I can’t come in tomorrow (Saturday) because we are going to watch the beloved Aggies beat up on some school called FSU!!!!
I did not post any photos of the last two days of our vacation. We spent both days driving from Flagstaff to Dallas with an overnight layover in Amarillo. Almost the entire distance from Flagstaff to Dallas is part of the Southern Great Plans. They are beautiful and impressive in their own unique way but you cannot capture the aura in a photo. They are just too expansive. You would need a 360 degree panorama shot. Traveling through the Great Plains I can understand why the 1st settlers passed through them as quickly as possible to get to the mountains. Oh what a relief it must have been to actually see and touch a tree again after months of traveling through a flat plain with no vegetation except grass.
… and the road never ends. I am ready to plan our next trip. Where should we go?
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Cliff Dwellings
September 11, 2010
Cliff Dwelling Ruins
Visited Sanagua Indian cliff dwelling ruins today. Sanagua is Spanish for “without water”. The Indians abandoned these dwellings around 1250 A.D. Of course no one is sure why. The ruins are about 1/2 way up a cliff in Walnut Canyon. The main reason they built here was for safety. There is no way you could sneak up to this place. On the other hand they had to climb out of the canyon to raise corn and hunt. Likewise, they had to descend to the bottom of the canyon for water.
After visiting the ruins we drove into Flagstaff and watched a movie (The American). I was expecting a George Clooney action movie. Boy was I in for a surprise. This is a great movie if you like to watch George Clooney do nothing and if you don’t like happy endings. On the upside the girl was a “10”.
Heading home tomorrow. However, we are stopping in Amarillo Saturday night and then onto beautiful Fairview on Sunday.
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Sedona Rocks!
September 9, 2010
Red rocks abound in Sedona
Blue Skies and Red Rocks are plentiful in Sedona. Today we drove from Flagstaff to Sedona via Oak Creek Canyon Road which is quite a pleasant drive if you don’t mind sheer drop offs of a 1000 feet or so. Ate lunch at Sedona and drove around taking photos. I wanted to go on a hike and find one of the famed “Vortexes of Power” that Sedona is famous for but I hurt my knee hiking in Pagosa Springs and Gwen cannot take the Sunshine (vampire syndrome).
We had lunch at Oaxaca’s in Sedona. It is Mexican cuisine and very good. I would recommend it to anyone traveling through Sedona.
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4 Corners
September 9, 2010
Standing on 4 Corners
Drove from Pagosa Springs to Flagstaff today. Stopped at the 4 Corners. Gwen is in Utah with one foot in Arizona and one in Colorado. new Mexico is left out.
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Alley House Restaurant
September 8, 2010
Best restaurant in Pagosa Springs
The reason I can talk Gwen into coming back to this town is the Alley House restaurant. Tonight she ordered the most exotic meal I have ever seen her order. Ask her about it.
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Mountain Road
September 7, 2010
not typical mountain road
This is not a typical mountain road – it is straight for about 50 yards and level. However I thought the warning signs were interesting because in 30 miles of traveling today out to a water fall with sheer drop-offs sometimes 1000 feet down this is the only warning signs we encountered.
The waterfall was really cool but I have not mastered the art of waterfall photos.
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Grove of Aspen Trees
September 6, 2010
Aspen Grove
Today was our 1st full day in Pagosa Springs. We walked around the town, ate lunch at a restaurant called Farrago’s, and took a long hike to Opal Lake. Later that night after a great dinner in the cabin of pork chops, and veggies. Finally, we had a pleasant conversation with our neighbors who are from Grand Junction.
The highlight of the day for me was the hike to Opal Lake. We encountered this grove of Aspen’s one the hike up to the lake.
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Pagosa Springs Folk Festival
September 5, 2010
Ricky Skagg's & Kentucky Thunder
Saturday morning in Albuquerque (I have learned how to spell Albuquerque; if nothing else that is something I accomplished on this trip. Ate breakfast at a good local joint called Weck’s. Drove to Santa Fe where we stopped for lunch and toured a very interesting Farmer’s Market. Then it was in to Pagosa Springs. We checked into the Wyndham. They put us in one of the Perigrine units – one of the older ones but okay. If you have a choice stay in Teal Landing.
Saturday night was the Folk Festival which turned out to be mostly Bluegrass! It was at the top of Reservoir Hill in the middle of town. We got our exercise trudging up the hill. The festival was a big stage under a tent that sat 900 people. Food vendors and other miscellaneous “hippie” wares surrounded the tent. The highlight of the evening was Ricky Skaggs. He has shoulder length gray hair now and a substantial pop belly but he can still sing and play the mandolin. This may be the highlight of the trip — only time will tell!
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Palo Duro Canyon
September 4, 2010
Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo Texas
I drove to Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo Texas on my first day of vacation and camped out in a tent for the 1st time in dozens of years. The ground is as hard as ever!!! They call Palo Duro the Grand Canyon of Texas. No where near as big but still an awesome place. Unlike the Grand Canyon you drive down the face of the Canyon to the campground. Went for a 6 mile hike in the morning before leaving to pick up Gwen in Albuquerque. This is the view from the end of the hike at the “Lighthouse”. I am on the “Lighthouse” looking back into the Canyon
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