Vacation, Day 4
Mar. 20th, 2008 07:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragoness_eWe crossed the Mojave desert after Bakersfield and headed into Arizona. The Mojave Desert pretty much bored everyone, though I snapped a few pictures of yucca trees.
Up in the California mountains, there's snow.
Sierra Madre?
Yucca in the Mojave
Looking out over the Mojave at the San Gabriel Mountains
Once we got into Arizona, we saw lots of rocks, in interesting formations and with funky weathering.
Butte, west of Kingman, AZ
Weathered sandstone boulders in western Arizona
When we got up into the mountains, we discovered that it was, in fact, Not Spring Yet.
Snow behind Denny's, Williams, AZ
Looking east toward Mt. Humphries, AZ
By this point, we were up the ponderosa pine forest.
Mountain pond, with snow in the woods (West of Flagstaff, AZ)
Pine & snow-covered foothills near Flagstaff, AZ
Route 66, Flagstaff, AZ
I-40 parallels the old Route 66, and Route 66 persists in stretches here and there and in every Western town it went through.
It's usually the main drag through town, like here, in Flagstaff. Most of the hotels, old, very old, and new are located on it. In turn, "the Mother Road" follows the railroad west, so you will have trains going by if you sleep on Route 66.
Another old Route 66 Motel
Mountain, with antennae
In the New West, what we do with mountains is put radio antennae on them. Wind-swept ridges get wind farms, of course.
Up in the California mountains, there's snow.
Sierra Madre?
Yucca in the Mojave
Looking out over the Mojave at the San Gabriel Mountains
Once we got into Arizona, we saw lots of rocks, in interesting formations and with funky weathering.
Butte, west of Kingman, AZ
Weathered sandstone boulders in western Arizona
When we got up into the mountains, we discovered that it was, in fact, Not Spring Yet.
Snow behind Denny's, Williams, AZ
Looking east toward Mt. Humphries, AZ
By this point, we were up the ponderosa pine forest.
Mountain pond, with snow in the woods (West of Flagstaff, AZ)
Pine & snow-covered foothills near Flagstaff, AZ
Route 66, Flagstaff, AZ
I-40 parallels the old Route 66, and Route 66 persists in stretches here and there and in every Western town it went through.
It's usually the main drag through town, like here, in Flagstaff. Most of the hotels, old, very old, and new are located on it. In turn, "the Mother Road" follows the railroad west, so you will have trains going by if you sleep on Route 66.
Another old Route 66 Motel
Mountain, with antennae
In the New West, what we do with mountains is put radio antennae on them. Wind-swept ridges get wind farms, of course.
