Road Trip

[SimpleSimon]

As a few of you know, I took a road trip in April. Here are a selected few of the photos I took on my trip last month from Shreveport via LA to Portland, OR; and return via 2ndary roads across Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona.


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cw in the hotel, on Sunday April 10th.

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cw getting ready to hit it

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Talarohk at the coffee shop after touring the Museum of Jurassic technology 4/10/05

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flocat, at the coffee shop

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View out the hotel room window towards LAX

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jazzer at the Italian restaurant Sunday evening

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flocat and cw, also at the restaurant

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Group pic on the Venice pier

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Cinder cone west of Mt Shasta

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Cinder cone again, a closer view

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Dragon carved from the stump and standing trunk of a redwood tree in my home town, Molalla, OR

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Mom

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My younger sister, Vicki

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The forward hull of Howard Hughe’s flying boat, The Spruce Goose at the Evergreen Air Museum

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Wingroot and 3 of the 4 engines on the right wing of the Goose. And yes, the aircraft below it is an SR-71A Blackbird

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Perverse demonic creature belonging to ignatz, inspecting my prosthetic arm closely

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ignatz, with her dog Hercules, on the chair behind her

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ignatz and I

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proof of her lack of altitude – slh and ignatz

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Willamette valley sunset on the freeway home from ignatz’s

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Slh and his little sister, Margaret, my youngest child

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End of the Trail Exposition center, Oregon City, Oregon

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Snowy mountains, green grass and purple flowers, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada

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Directional sign just before the junction of NV 305 and hwy 50 (the loneliest road) on the outskirts of Austin, NV

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Stoke’s castle in Austin, NV. A replica of a castle tower outside Rome, built for financier Anson Stokes

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Another view of Stoke’s castle


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Looking south across the Grand Canyon

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Looking down into the canyon

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Colorado river in the canyon bottom – it is at least 3,000 ft below me at that point. Quite amazing.

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Rimrock across the canyon, well over a mile away

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Loooking west-northwest up the canyon. Incredible views!

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Cruise at the canyon rim

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Cruise at ease at home.

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At the entry to Zion Nat’l Park.

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Other side of the canyon of the Virgin river from the first pic – entrance to Zion.

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Looking north east from just past the second switchback turn on the ladder to the gods inside Zion Nat’l Park.

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Looking west from the ladder – across the entry to the main canyon

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Another view of the west wall above the park entrance

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the road below is the entry road to the park

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Huge natural concavity in the rock

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The black hole in the rock just to the left of the tree in center picture is one of the ventilation windows into the tunnel at the top of the ladder of the gods

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View of another ventilation window

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The sign says: “Tunnel completed 1930 Length 1.1 miles

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Viewpoint overlooking Virgin river at the east end of the tunnel – they call the rock “pancake” rock

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Slick rock layers above parking lot.

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Looking down onto the river

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Slick rock above the virgin river

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Wahweap marina on Lake Powell just above the Glen Canyon dam

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Glen Canyon Dam – as you can see, the water is quite low

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Highway bridge (2 lane) just downstream of the dam, at Paige, AZ – The pedestrian crossing was closed – I wanted to get pics but could not. It is 680 ft from the deck of the bridge to the water below

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Kachina’s painted on the walls in the restaurant in Sedona where we had lunch with wonderaz

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Bell rock

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Flowers – these were everywhere on the desert hillsides

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Chapel of the Holy Cross

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Castle rock

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side canyon off Oak Creek

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Mugtoe rinsing dishes

[Cruise Director]

Great pics! Looks like you saw some great country. It's here I'll mention that free, guided tours of both the Grand Canyon area and Zion's are offerred for those who make reservations. :D

[Koliedrus]

With those images, I've been provided with a first-person perspective.

It doesn't suck to be you.

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

God damn dial up! Well worth the wait though. Very cool pics Simon.