amynsean

2007-10-19T20:40:00.001-07:00

The blog has gotten a little
out of order now at the end
but if you know your geography
you can figure it out
we stayed in Roseburg Oregon
last night and are only about 5 hours
away from Seattle....
YAY!!!
So we'll be there Saturday October 20th
sometime in the early afternoon.
Not much more to see I don't think
but we'll see...
It's been a long but great trip

So far Oregon has been wet
a lot of rain
but the little bit of sun we had
we saw some cool stuff
there is a lot of beautiful mountains
and trees and stuff but it was hard to see
with all the rain and fog

I don't know how many of you have heard of this
but it is cool, just very strange and random....

Oh and this is a giant caveman statue
outside one of the Oregon
visitors centers we saw.....

We actually didn't find that welcome sign
until we were leaving California

The picture below is what a sand storm looks
like in the distance this one got to close though
we heard that it killed two people out there
somewhere

This is us sitting in traffic in the middle of the desert
it took us two hours to go two miles
luckily there was a gas station right where the
traffic cleared up because we were in the red
and the light was about to come on
a little scary

This is the beach in Carmel
much better than the desert.....

More random weirdness
this seems to be a dragon made of metal
it is somewhere close to the border
of Oregon in Northern California.....

More Arizona

2007-10-19T20:37:00.001-07:00

Above is the dirt road we had to drive on
for 14 miles through the Joshua Tree National Forest
in order to get to the Grand Canyon West
below are a few of the millions of Joshua Trees we saw

This is at Grand Canyon West
the Indians call this Eagle Peak...

This is the Skywalk
this thing is amazing, glass walls and a glass floor
it sits over a 4,000 foot sheer drop

Yeah......
the London Bridge
more randomness
exactly what we were looking for

2007-10-15T21:44:00.000-07:00

It took us so long to update the blog

because of the camping and

internet problems out here

but we still have a few days ahead of us

and hope to keep up with it a little better.....

Here is our campfire at the Grand Canyon
It was very cold at night
but we saw just about every star in the sky

This is a sign warning of Elk crossing
we saw a few too...

Here is a shot of the Grand Canyon
it is pretty amazing
you really have to be there to get it....

This is the entrance to Fred's Diner
in The Flinstones Village

Here we are at the 4 corners

This is Sedona Arizona
a very cute little town
with a great view

Julius Caesar haling a cab
does being naked help??

We stayed here two nights

The view form our room in New York, New York....

New Mexico

2007-10-09T16:54:00.001-07:00

This is one of a million dead signs

ugly and pictuesque....

This road was perfectly straight for about

25 miles...

These are some pictures of the

Albequerque Balloon Fiesta

It was just luck that this was going the same week we were

passing through....

We were out for a drive at night to get some food

and Amy spotted this in a field

we ended up driving into some horse track

to see these few guys just lighting up there balloons....

Good eats....

A New Mexican sunset

from our hotel room view....

Texas

2007-10-08T08:00:00.000-07:00

So the trick here is if you can eat this 72oz steak
with all the fixins'
it is free

A couple pictures of Palo Duro Canyon
this is where Canyon Texas gets
its name obviously...

Ok so is this cross big enough?
They say it is the 2nd biggest in the western hemisphere
somewhere outside Amarillo....

This is about a mile or two away....

Big sky out here in Texas
This is a sunrise....

Speaks for itself.......

This is called Cadillac Ranch
it is just outside of Amarillo
They encourage graffiti
Some very rich crazy old guy does stuff
like this all over the place around here including
a 120' by 80' pool table with 42" pool balls
in some field you can only really see form
an airplane

One last oddity in Texas before we left...

Yes it is a giant pair of legs in a field

middle of nowhere, arkansas & oklahoma

2007-10-05T19:55:00.000-07:00

No crime here or what?????

This is the Mississippi River...

They have alot of porn here
and alot of God
we missed the sign that only a few miles
before said:
"If you die today
where will you spend eternity?"
and this XXX sign was only a couple
hundred yards away from a huge church
neat.....

quick stop in Nashville

2007-10-05T08:52:00.001-07:00

This big guy was at the Nashville Zoo...
I know I know zoo's are awful and abusive
but he's not starving to death or being hunted
in the jungle somewhere
so just relax your PCness a little.....

full scale replica of the Parthenon in Nashville and a re-creation of the Athena Parthenos statue which stands 42' 10" tall.
Seriously..
the little statue in her hand is
Nike and she is 6'4" tall

day 3&4

2007-10-03T16:06:00.001-07:00

This is our first campsite at Yogi's Jellystone Park

Our first fire

Nice car huh?
great neighborhood for Yogi and friends

OK
So we're trying to leave the Smoky Mnts
and guess we have to go back through
the Blue Ridge Pkwy
but realize we really don't know which way
to go or even where we are
so this is me asking someone for directions

As you can see we made it out of North Carolina

Day 2

2007-10-02T06:04:00.000-07:00

This is the bridge
and yes it did swing in the wind
and yes it was windy
but very cool

I think they said this is the highest point on the Blue Ridge

Day 1

2007-10-02T05:24:00.000-07:00

We left on September 30th....

Yes you see it correctly
FOAMHENGE
a full size replica of Stonehenge
made of foam
We found this by accident actually
making a wrong turn in the middle of nowhere
can be a good thing