Thursday, July 08, 2004
Looking forward to Summer 2005!! (??)
I am taking a break during a hectic day to blog a bit (while eating dinner... what does that say to you!?) LOL!!
I got home from Las Vegas about 2:00 a.m. today, Thursday. Ugh!! I only slept a few hours before I got ready to leave for NY tomorrow, Friday. Whew!
Anyway ... that's not what I wanted to blog about this evening. Really, what I wanted to talk about was my flights Sunday and last night. I was a bit bored at one point early in the outgoing flight on Sunday, so I got out the flight magazine and was looking at the map in the back. (I LOVE maps ... didn't ya' know that!?) I realized that the flight path from Baltimore to Las Vegas would probably take us right over the "Four Corners" area (where the borders of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona share a common point). Sure enough, after I watched the Rock Mountains go by, I spent a good chunk of the end of the flight watching the Colorado River flow through the Grand Canyon and into Lake Mead. It was wonderful!! I got to do the same thing on the way back last night. Again ... wonderful.
Now, I don't know if you realize that I am hoping to make my next cross country road trip next summer, and that I've been hoping to spend the great majority of the summer in the Four Corners area, specifically concentrating on the Grand Canyon, the Navajo Indian Reservation, and some of the other park areas in and around that part of the country. Flying over it REALLY whet my appetite. When we went to see Hoover Dam on Tuesday, I bought a book about the Grand Canyon (full of bibliographies!) And, I've spent a lot of time contemplating the trip. I'm more and more excited about it the more and more that I think about it.
In the next couple of weeks, I hope that I am going to be putting a page up in my site to give you an idea of my planning for that trip. I'll let you know when it's up. I can't decide on a name for the trip ... like my cross country trip in 2001 was called "Lou Ann's Great Adventure 2001" and the trip to Alaska in 2003 was called "Lou Ann's Folly 2003". So I need to come up with something. I don't care if my name is in it ... or if it's something like "Southwest 2005" or "The Four Corners 2005" or something about the Colorado River ... or what? Any ideas?
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I don't have a title for your trip, but if you do go to the four corners area, I highly recommend visiting Mesa Verde. I don't think it's too far from the four corners, and it is totally worth the trip. It's where the Anasazi (or Ancestral Puebloans) built homes inside the mountains and the homes are perfect. They have windows and perfectly square corners. It was really amazing. -- Carrie
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: 7/09/2004 9:16 AM
: 7/09/2004 9:16 AM
Thanks, Carrie! Mesa Verde is DEFINITELY on my list of day trips. I have heard/read all sorts of neat things about them. They are in the Southwest corner of Colorado, and thus definitely on the route. :-)
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