Return - Day 2

Not as many pictures on Day 2 - I will admit to napping quite a bit, but I still managed to find things to look at when I was awake.

I love the wind turbines, but it wasn't until I took the second shot that I realized there was no sense of scale in the first one...the barn gives you a better sense of the size of the turbines...

Found a Fixer-Upper that even Chip & Joanna Gaines wouldn't tackle...

Something caught my eye and I was able to track a crop-duster hard at work - 

and a few other things caught my eye -

a dry river

men at work - or not, since they are just standing there discussing things...

a feed lot

a surprising splash of color

the Flag, a cowboy and an American Eagle....

God bless the USA!

Return - Day 1 New Mexico

By the time we got to New Mexico, it was feeling like a really long day.

 The delay in Flagstaff meant we didn't get to Albuquerque until late...but what a welcome site!

Return - Day 1 cont.

Of course, my favorite Arizona landscapes have dinosaurs...

Hmmm...those mountains look like they have gotten more snow than when we came by before...

and there's so much moisture in the air, there was an upside-down rainbow...

and you can actually see the weather effects...

the wind is blowing that dust line, and just to the right of it, you can see a small downspout, a baby tornado....

Sure enough, just outside of Flagstaff, there had been a wreck involving an 18-wheeler, so we all got to sit for over an hour in the backup, while it snowed, before we could crawl past it.

Snow!

this was in the side mirror - there were just as many trucks ahead of us

and the other side of Flagstaff, all was back to normal...

Return - Day 1

Of course, the trip back looked really similar to the trip out there...didn't stop me from taking pictures, since the view was on the other side of the road!

Nevada -

I couldn't see the water at all when we crossed the area at the dam on the way out here...

When you are on a major highway going 75mph, it is extremely difficult to get a landscape shot without power lines. At the dam, it's impossible!

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Of course, you don't get to spend a lot of time in Nevada on the way back...you're in Arizona before you know it...what beautiful landscapes!

Excitement

ummmm...wait.  That's probably not the word I was searching for...most people get to go to the fun Vegas (which takes money, by the way).  We go to the dusty-town-in-the-desert-where-family-lives Vegas.

So, when we were not with family, if you had been with us, this is what you would have seen...

yawwnnnn

naptime

time to stretch

Hold me back.  The excitement's too much....