Northeast New Mexico, Colorado to Canyonlands National Park, Utah

Northeast NM to

Canyonlands Nat Pk, UT

Waypoint 27 to 36

Note: Not all waypoints are overnights.

Some are created to force the software to 

take the desired route 

Turning west off of hwy 297 N of Amarillo, TX towards NM the traffic volume goes from light to extremely minimal. Forget receiving an over the air radio station. They are few and far between from here to the other side of the Sierra Nevada mountains in CA. Satellite Radio is our company.

Click on map & pics to enlarge to full size.

WP 27 Capulin Mountain, NM

Enlarge & look carefully. 

There is a town out there

Looking down into the crater of a long extinct volcano

The carpark is near top center. The dot is our truck.

WP 30 Colorado, Sand Dunes National Monument area

On the hoof for the next photo op always keeping 

an eye out for rattle snakes.

Sand Dunes. Over 300' high. That is way higher than Gibbs

for the Bermudians looking. WP 30

WP 30. No, not ants. Energetic people hiking

Carolyn takes a stab at black and white photography. 

The few photographers on the list might appreciate it 

Too bad we did not have clearer skies for these.
Oh well

Pretty much just us the ground squirrels, a few rabbits & the coyotes howling.

Just like boating. You never let the weather win.
Even if it is a little breezy and in the 40s, 
you must have the fire.

WP 30. Does it get any better than this?

Somewhere between WP 31 and 32

Near the top of Slumgullion Pass, CO. One wicked vehicle testing pass. 

Brake pads were literally smoking when we got to the bottom at Lake City, 

something like a 3000' drop in road level in very few miles.

Colorado high country

Mine tailings

North of WP 32, Lake City

North of Lake City

View from Dead Horse State Park Visitors Center

Dead Horse Point State Park, UT, WP 36

WP36. Part of the road to the top of the
Canyonlands mesa. A 3 mile 8% grade.

Dead Horse Point State Park, UT. Colorado River below.
Half the depth of the Grand Canyon but no less impressive.

Headed down to Pucker Pass. Yes, it IS a two way road.

Pucker Pass

Down from Pucker Pass

Rockface

Weathered tree stump

The Colorado winds through Dead Horse Point State Park

Dead Horse Point State Park, UT

A Dead Horse Point campground sunset

Canyonlands. The fishing vest carries camera stuff very nicely

WP36, Grand View Point overlook, Canyonlands NP, UT

WP36, Grand View Point overlook, Canyonlands NP, UT

WP36, Grand View Point overlook, Canyonlands NP, UT

WP36, Grand View Point overlook, Canyonlands NP, UT

The two dots near center bottom are vehicles

Indian Paintbrush, Canyonlands

 All pics are 'as is' out of the camera. Wish I had a polarizing filter for some of them to clear up some of the haze & make the colours as rich as they looked through polarized sunglasses.

Off to the Pacific Northwest

The plan, as last year  was to loop south first to avoid cold weather & the severe storms that tend roam the midwest in April. Such was the plan.

  

You just know that when you step outside of the terminal in Baltimore & see this stuff it is a bad omen.

Happyness is moving in

As usual it is off to Martinak State Park to take on water & be close to a market to load up food. Also as usual, we had the place to ourselves.

Off to Tilghman & Severn Marine for a few days. Always interesting to see what Carl has in the shed.

Southern Cross, a 1950s classic

It is going to be an awful shame putting this beautiful finish on a Markley 46 to work.

Spring flowers on Tilghman Island WP5

Waypoint 11, Near La Grange, GA.

West Point Lake, WP11, GA

Hows this for a view?

Turtles sunning themselves

Ready, aim

FIRE!

Some reasons to like country music. 

3 day music festival, Dothan AL, WP13. Huge! 

Something like 30,000 through the gates.

Pensacola, FL, WP16, home to these guys

and a great naval air museum

WW2 vintage carrier prop weighing 30,000#

Show your age. Who remembers these things flying 

in & out of NOB Bermuda?

Curses you Red Baron

WP17, Big Lagoon State Rec Area, Pensacola, FL

Big Lagoon St Rec Area

You meet the nicest naayyybours at a rodeo. WP21, Longview TX 

Someday 

Santa is going to bring us one of these trucks.

Drool.

Somewhere in the TX panhandle north of Amarillo

At this point we are 27 days & some 2500 miles into the trip. No road incidents & mostly decent weather except for the cold. First night was a record cold for the date where we were. The night near Panama City, FL was a record cold for the date & while in Amarillo TX the temp equaled the record cold for the date. Where is spring?