Posts from ‘October, 2009’

f you’re planning a trip to the Grand Canyon, a couple guidelines:
1) Don’t forget to tie your shoelaces – there are no guard rails
2) Charge the battery to your camera – you will want the ability to take 500 photos that all look the same
3) Rob a small bank on your way in – you [...]

When I think of Utah I draw a blank. Then I vaguely remember something about Salt Lake City. Then I spend a couple moments wondering if I’m correct and if it really is located in Utah. Then I inwardly shrug and wonder why I was thinking about Utah to begin with.
So when [...]

Mesa Verde. Green table.
For some reason, hundreds of years ago, people decided to live way up in the air, clinging to the sides of cliffs. They grew crops on the flat tops of the hills – on the “green tables” – and spent the rest of their lives sheltered in the cliffside. [...]

4 directions
4 seasons
4 legs on a dog
4 strong winds
4 points in a square
and only ONE point in all of America where 4 states share one corner.
We were there! The intersection of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.
And do you know what’s there? A little booth where they want to charge you $10 to look [...]

Ever since the loss of Helen (the aloe vera), our GPS voice, Daniel, has taken a turn for the worse.
He keeps leading us onto gravel roads, taking indirect routes and mispronouncing the street names so badly that we are perpetually lost. Now we realize it is simply because he is mourning the loss of [...]

We like to be a bit spontaneous in our plans, so instead of heading south to Gila, as originally planned, we went north. So many people told us to go to Bandelier that we thought it must be the universe communicating a divine message Thanks to all 4 strangers who [...]

We lost Helen.
To be exact, we left her. Accidently. At the Motel 6 in Santa Fe. It’s true. It’s our fault. We feel awful and we mourn the loss of our best, most greenest, slightly warped, trustworthy hitchhiking plant.
I think she’s being taken care of by some warm hearted cleaning lady. [...]

ew Mexico is fake. It’s just too damn pretty and scenic. It must be fake. Fake mountains, fake valleys, plastic cliffs and styrofoam hills. Definitely.
But what a beautiful abberation in the scenery on our trip so far! It feels like another country – a high desert land full of [...]

New Mexico may be a land of desert but there is SNOW here!! Noooooo… not the 4 seasons again!!!!
More Santa Fe tales to follow shortly…

Amarillo, Texas – a very international city according to the construction worker drinking the soy latte at Starbucks. It is also home to the largest privately owned cattle auction. Over 300,000 head of cattle are sold each year. At one point it was the largest livestock auction in the world, with around 70 millions bucks [...]