Friday, April 17, 2015

Strange trip to Colorado part 1: Grand Canyon

This was almost the first of our trips, the pre-car one. Almost doesn't take into account various conferences, trip to Palo Duro Canyon, and kayaking on San Marcos river with the TTU OPC club, and random drives to Dallas/Houston on business.

After looking through three-year old pictures, I think I need another visit to Grand Canyon - this time to take some pictures actually.


"We should see Colorado!". That was a declaration after the kayaking trip in April 2012. So after the end of the semester, we rented a car, not exactly trusting the Volkswagen with not working speedometer, and headed towards New Mexico, and then Durango, CO.



Well, somewhere near Albuquerque or Santa Fe, enjoying some variety in landscape after flaaaaat Lubbock and excitedly talking about car and roadtrips all over US, we decided that the loop towards the Grand Canyon is not a loop at all.


So asking at the gas station at the Eastern part of New Mexico if this highway is gonna lead us to Grand Canyon was quite hilarious. At some point GPS actually agreed that Grand Canyon existed


Grand Canyon on the horizon (well, just beyond the horizon, I promise) (and those are not fat fingerrints on camera lenses, but smashed insects on the car window)


The Grand Canyon




Close up of some twist in Colorado river (I even didn't take a picture of the Horseshoe bend, shame on me)


Driving through the badlands to the next section of the canyon




Old rail-bridge (most of the pictures below are taken through the oh-so-dirty car windows)


Road to "Colourful Colorado"...



...starts to look like road to Mordor...


... and all roads in Mordor lead to Orodruin: Mount Doom, my dear Frodo


After dropping off the Ring of Power (somewhere)...


... the eagles are still not coming...


so at sunset we feed our own horses


TO BE CONTINUED

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