I've come back from vacation with ideas for a couple of different blogs, but I've been too busy catching up with work and unpacking to actually write any of them! I'll tempt your blog-buds with a picture or two, though.
We spent the majority of our time in Colorado and Utah, but Arizona took up a wonderful day and a half, and my foot was in New Mexico at the Four Corners Monument. The trip mileage on our rental car read 1,759.0 when we turned it back in - quite a lot of rubber on the road! We saw eight parks/monuments in eight days. The first picture is from Great Sand Dunes National Park, showing the sand dunes, of course. The second was taken from the car as we traversed a mountain pass between Ouray and Durango, also in Colorado.
I plan to occasionally post about comical things I've seen while hiking, and/or while traveling in general. I'll start with what is probably my most amusing shot - Justin and a mule deer sharing a trail in Colorado. It was hard getting a picture where both of them had their eyes open, facing me. This deer and her companions were obviously unafraid of humans. A few minutes later, another deer in this group kindly posed for me with the sand dunes as a backdrop.
This is in Great Sand Dunes NP, in Colorado. I like this picture because of the layering of different textures: tree silhouettes, sand, foothills, and mountains. One of the reasons I like camping is because views like these greet you in the morning while blaring neon signs and tourist traps are conspicuous only in their absence. But after several days of camping, I'll wade through tourists hip deep to get a hot shower!
We spent the majority of our time in Colorado and Utah, but Arizona took up a wonderful day and a half, and my foot was in New Mexico at the Four Corners Monument. The trip mileage on our rental car read 1,759.0 when we turned it back in - quite a lot of rubber on the road! We saw eight parks/monuments in eight days. The first picture is from Great Sand Dunes National Park, showing the sand dunes, of course. The second was taken from the car as we traversed a mountain pass between Ouray and Durango, also in Colorado.
