This was Thursday’s sunset, but the colors are similar to what we saw on Tuesday evening coming back from Alamosa, Colorado on U.S. 285. The drive is spectacular under any conditions, and you get this hugeness in the West. That last hour from the Colorado line to Taos just kills me fucking dead. The isolation [...]
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Looking downstream. Illinois left, Iowa right. »Buy This Photo!«
I was so busy (apparently) on our recent trip to eastern Iowa that I never had a chance to post anything while we were there. No biggie, it was mostly family—eat, visit, and nap, you know?—and live in clean rooms with real closets and such. I only went crazy a couple of times. Oh yeah, [...]
You really had to be there »Buy This Photo!«
The sharp, loud scream from my wife in the kitchen startled me out of a delicious slumber at 7:00 a.m. “Are you all right?” I yelled, staggering out of bed. (Cue visions of sharp knives, rattlesnakes, dead cats, and blood…) She was, fortunately, but something huge had just walked past the window: this guy! I [...]
Colorado Highway 10 into Huerfano County today »Buy This Photo!«
Oh yes, got back today around 2:30 p.m. My God, what a week for me, you, and America. I’m in shock. Everything continues to be…different… Once again, the transition from where we were to southern Colorado and northern New Mexico is a ripping blast. Among other things, I can’t believe I live here. »Buy This [...]
Annointed, as it were
We’re leaving soon for Iowa. A road trip like no other, given the Wild West and the roads I choose. Never an Interstate highway, all mostly empty two-lanes. None of that dances-with-semis bullshit and pulling off to fart and piss in herds. Yes, of course it takes a little longer, but not much, and the [...]
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