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coming to you from beautiful downtown tusayan, just south of the grand canyon. and i have remembered something i should have brought - some sort of recording device. most of the road trips i've done, someone else has been along, and that person can make notes as we go....a bit hard to do when one is driving. so i'll just have to try to remember the things that struck me:
-those domed tops on semi-truck roofs look the the crests of some dinosaurs. particularly when they are brightly colored.
-which makes driving i-40 rather like being in the middle of a dinosaur migration.
-the state of arizona really needs to put in a scenic viewpoint just after you cross the border from needles. you cross over the colorado river, there is a rather nice (railroad?) bridge you can see from the highway, and a set of dramatically-crested dark-red mountains. i would have loved to have stopped there, enjoyed the view and eaten my lunch.
-the state of arizona also needs to put in a few rest stops. if they have any, i haven't seen them.
no pictures today (just some really blurry ones taken on the fly through the window. drove all day with the top up - i knew i was going to be passing through riverside, and it entirely met my expectations with a layer of smog so thick it hid a small mountain. by the time i cleared that, the tempeature was over 90 (and the car was nearly there) - so figured i would just keep the protection up, and the wind resistance down. still, a lovely drive....but i really need to make the trip again with a roadside geology book. i am determined to learn how all those different mountain ranges were formed - so many different-looking ones, sometimes right next to each other.
actually, i need to do the trip again with more time - then i would have time to investigate such things as london bridge (which i had forgotten is now at lake havisu), and that thing that looked like a giant sparkly golf bowl.
-those domed tops on semi-truck roofs look the the crests of some dinosaurs. particularly when they are brightly colored.
-which makes driving i-40 rather like being in the middle of a dinosaur migration.
-the state of arizona really needs to put in a scenic viewpoint just after you cross the border from needles. you cross over the colorado river, there is a rather nice (railroad?) bridge you can see from the highway, and a set of dramatically-crested dark-red mountains. i would have loved to have stopped there, enjoyed the view and eaten my lunch.
-the state of arizona also needs to put in a few rest stops. if they have any, i haven't seen them.
no pictures today (just some really blurry ones taken on the fly through the window. drove all day with the top up - i knew i was going to be passing through riverside, and it entirely met my expectations with a layer of smog so thick it hid a small mountain. by the time i cleared that, the tempeature was over 90 (and the car was nearly there) - so figured i would just keep the protection up, and the wind resistance down. still, a lovely drive....but i really need to make the trip again with a roadside geology book. i am determined to learn how all those different mountain ranges were formed - so many different-looking ones, sometimes right next to each other.
actually, i need to do the trip again with more time - then i would have time to investigate such things as london bridge (which i had forgotten is now at lake havisu), and that thing that looked like a giant sparkly golf bowl.
