Bringing It Home

Here's some straggling pictures from my trip. 

Lemon tress growing in Kay's garden

More pictures of delicious food from Mexcio

Kay's beautiful house view in Rosarito, Mexico

More Mexican beach houses

A huge tree in Balboa Park in San Diego 

Lily pad pond in Balboa park - reminded me of Claud Monet's Lily pads

Last view of the beach on the last night.

Flying away from Utah's airport. I'll miss the mountains and the West in general. 

Grand Canyon

Before the Grand Canyon, we stopped to see the world's most preserved Meteorite Crater in the world. 

This crater was formed thousands of years ago. 

It was just a hole in the ground until it became privately owned and turned into a tourist attraction

The Meteorite turned the earth's crust inside out revealing years of perfectly preserved fossils.

After the crater, we left for the main event of the day: The Grand Canyon! 

It was a little hazy outside but still beautiful of course. 

The vastness is so hard to comprehend. Pictures just don't do it justice.

Everywhere along the rock you could see fossils of snails.

We even saw Elk!

 A panorama to show the epicness of the grand canyon

Our journey. 

New Mexico to Arizona

Today we met up with one of Wes's friends, Elizabeth, in the small town of Gallup, NM

This is a size reference. This is our attempt to take down a huge sopapita - a mixture of Native American and Mexican food. 

Elizabeth was such a great host. She droves us out to the Red Rock state park. We hiked a small way up to take pictures and soak in the view. It couldn't have been better weather. 

After we stopped by a historical hotel on Route 66 to look inside. Many famous people have stayed here over time. 

Lucille Ball stayed in this room!

I forgot to post these last night. We statyed at Katie and Alex's house for a night and drank some local beers. Great times!

We checked out the New Mexico version of Kroger. Here's an example of the chili culture out here. It's huge! 

Today's Journey. Tomorrow, the Grand Canyon!!

Yesterday: from Roswell to Albuquerque

We did SO MUCH STUFF! 

Visited the UFO museum in Roswell of course! 

Ate some fantastic tacos at the Disco Taco on a Native American reservation 

  

Walked the White Sands desert 

Made an unexpected stop at some historical Petroglyphs. Super old rock etchings. This appealed to my art history back ground. 

Drove through the Valley of Fire: the result of one of the youngest lava flows in the continental United States. 

Today was the long drive from Austin to Roswell, New Mexico

These horrible oil rigs are all over west Texas. They're slow moving pendulum like machines. They're kind of creepy. 

On another note we saw many wind turbines along the way. I don't think I've ever seen them before. 

West Texas is so picturesque. It's littered with old broke down buildings and cacti along the highway.

Moving into New Mexico I saw a sign for a state park. I had no idea it was going to be this beautiful. I'm glad we stopped. 

More Lagoons. 

Travel on!

Traveling Through Texas (Part 1)

Easter day started with driving the 3 hour drive to Houston, Texas to visit family. I don't get to see them very much so it was a pleasant surprise of perfect timing. 

My cousin is the family art collector. She's collected works from my Aunt, Grandmother and Uncle. 

This piece of furniture was created by my Grandfather and the doll by my Grandmother

After leaving Houston the weather cleared up and I asked Wes to pull over and let me take some pictures of these crazy gorgeous highway wildflowers. 

 The day came to an end in Austin, Texas - home of the weird. We visited 6th Street. 

 And ate at Stubb's Barbecue - reffered to us by my cousin Jamie. 

Over 8 hours and almost 600 miles of driving makes for an exhausting trip!