My favorites… (post 1)

I’ve been asked where my favorite spots were on the trip, and that’s very difficult to answer. Everything – and I really do meanĀ everything – was just awesome to see. I thought there would be more hiccups on the trip, and that really never happened (thankfully!). To close out these posts, I’m going to post my favorite images from the spots I visited – and trust me, this was really hard to do – but the process of going through all of the photos (almost 6,000 of them) has been a blast because it’s really allowed me to relive everything.

I’m not sure exactly how many posts this is going to take, because I’m limited on post length, but I’ll post them in order of the trip over the course of a couple blog entries.

Nashville, Tennessee:

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Memphis, Tennessee:

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New Orleans, Louisiana:

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My nephews (Gavin & Gage – Bay City, Texas):

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Pecos, Texas:

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Austin, Texas:

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Albuquerque, New Mexico:

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Tent Rocks National Monument:

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Santa Fe, New Mexico (Sopapilla at Tomasita’s):

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Monument Valley, Utah:

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Mexican Hat Rock, Utah:

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Horseshoe Bend, Arizona:

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Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona:

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The Grand Canyon…

The Grand Canyon was the first “big” National Park I had the chance to visit and I certainly was not disappointed. While it was hot and it rained – and I mean itĀ rained – while I was there, I still had a great time walking along the South Rim of the Canyon.

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jclroadtripgcsunset0596The first spot that I stopped at after entering the Grand Canyon was the Desert View Watchtower – what a great way to get introduced to this Park. The structure itself is something else, but the views give you an idea of what’s to come. (The first pic is of the Watchtower itself, the second is from the top of the Watchtower and the third is from closer to sunset and was taken from Navajo Point).

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Everything you see in the Grand Canyon is just layered upon layered and one of the things I enjoyed the most is that nothing looks the same.

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I can’t say as I’ve ever seen myself as being afraid of heights, but I was absolutely hesitant to get too close to the edge of the Rim. Some people, however, didn’t have this same issue…

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Another one of my favorite parts of visiting the Grand Canyon was to see the effect that light had on the structures and their layers. As can be seen in the pic above and the photos below, a setting sun can really have a brilliant effect on it all…

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And then there was this little guy, who wasn’t affected by anything whatsoever…

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