Travel
Green Machines or Mean Machines?
Nothing like a little graphic evidence to show where the popular spot is in the Ford exhibit at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. The media proclaimed the show was all about saving the planet with electric and gas-efficient vehicles to be the show’s main theme. You can see for yourself how the attendees voted with their feet. Top: Ford Trucks and SUV exhibit – bottom: Ford green vehicles exhibit.
Hat tip: Henry Payne of Planet Gore on “Auto Show Deep Freeze: Green Gets the Cold Shoulder“.
Winter Cruise Flashback
Two years ago at Christmastime we drove from Wickenburg to Flagstaff and then up to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. I took this photo from the rim at Grand Canyon Village looking northeast. Click on the image to enlarge.
Allen Street in Old Tombstone
We were camped in an RV park in Tombstone, Arizona in October of last year for part of the “Heldorado Days” celebration. We were window shopping on Allen Street near the location where Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil Earp along with Doc Holliday shot it out with Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Billy Claiborne, Ike Clanton, and Billy Clanton. Damsel took this picture of a stagecoach going west toward the OK Corral at the left. Click on the image to enlarge.
Winter Grand Canyon Panorama
Damsel and I never get tired of seeing the Grand Canyon. December of 2008 was the first time we went there together in the winter to enjoy the same views accentuated with a touch of snow. This image was taken from Grand Canyon Village looking toward Bright Angel Canyon. Click the image below to see full-sized panorama.
Along US 60
We have been up and down US 60 between Wickenburg and the Phoenix Metro area a lot since the new house project started. Earlier this month, we passed the first train we have seen on the BNSF rails that parallel the road. This one was hauling rolls of sheet metal and some other big metal products. I sure like the paint job on the locomotives. Photo credit Damsel – click to enlarge.
Goodbye Pride of Barbados
We said goodbye to my favorite flowers, the Pride of Barbados a.k.a. Red Bird of Paradise last night. We stopped at the Arizona border last night to rest before driving home today after a very productive visit to our new home.
This picture was snapped just as the sun set in the west at Ehrenberg, AZ. By the time we return to Arizona, these flowers will be gone until next spring when they will again be as beautiful. The next pictures I post of these beautiful flowers, I hope, will be taken in my new rock garden at our new Arizona house. Click on the image to enlarge.