My road Trip '09

[Spicoli]

That an outstanding view Greg.looks so rich.Very green and like stepping into another era.Thanks for sharing chief...did your ears pop

[killersheep]

Painted Desert, AZ
elevation:5,800 ft.

One of the unique places in Arizona. multicolored badlands. The Cholla cactus seen below only blooms for 2 weeks out of the entire year, so we lucked out seeing it.

[killersheep]

Final Milage:



Other notable cities we visited but I don't have pictures of were:

Moab, UT - A destination for adventure sports people, Utah has really strict drinking laws, and strict laws about everything really. But it is a beatiful area, a lot of people that are into rock crawling go here to climb "Lion's Back".

Boulder, CO - A college town, probably the most liberal place in Colorado. The flat irons are near the city. It was really strange there was ethnic food from all over the world, but the population is almost all white. One of the more interesting things we saw there was a teahouse. The people of Tajikistan came together to build a teahouse over 40 artisans and craftsman, hand painted the walls and ceilings, had carved all the posts and made bronze statues. This was then dissassembled and reassembled in Boulder. The city of Boulder set up a relief fund for Dushanbe (the capital of Tajikistan).

Denver, CO - Denver is a suprisingly small city but it bustles with business and fancy architecture.

Santa Fe, NM - Is what a city looks like when there is very little middle class. As the main hub of southwest art, it is a breeding ground of snobbery. It is interesting though how many adobe homes there are.

Gallup, NM - Near the Arizona/New Mexico border. It is part of a section where Route 66 and the I-40 are the same road, there were a ton of hotels. It was definately offseason as the place was completely dead and some hotels had deals like 2 rooms for $29.99

Flagstaff, AZ - The major city of northern Arizona, home of NAU. Lots of hippies that can't afford it continue to live there because of the scenery.

[killersheep]

That an outstanding view Greg.looks so rich.Very green and like stepping into another era.Thanks for sharing chief...did your ears pop

My ears seemed to pop about once an hour on the hour.

It's amazing the elevation and temperature swings we took.

Lowest point (Home) Mesa, AZ 1,100 ft.

Highest Point Rainbow Curve 11,000 ft.

Highest temp. (again was at home) Mesa, AZ 109 degrees f

Lowest temp. Frisco, CO 36 degrees f

[BoxingGorilla]

Awesome photos! The only thing missing in the desert pics is a UFO.

I owe you some rep for sharing the moment.

Would you be okay with me using one as my desktop wallpaper?

[CGM]

Nice. I always like a good scenery pic. I particularly liked the look of Vail, CO. Also, #4 of Monument Valley, it almost looked like erosion has carved the design in the shape of a person.