Great picture!!! One year ago, the day dawned like this for me and my wife... on Brikrigg Common overlooking Morecambe Bay...
Merry Christmas! This piece definitely belongs in the Thread of Positive Awesomeness. http://edition.pagesuite.com/infini...spx?guid=e67b9b64-466e-4505-9407-02731d074bd1
I pressed reply before I intended to. I meant to add... One of my favourite places and it's where we scattered dad's ashes. He wanted scattering off the top of Ingleborough, but as I was the only one fit enough and who also loved being up there, I got out-voted. So the viaduct it was and he's now stuck with all the bloody tourists!!!
Just reading this forum, always puts a smile on my face which after a 13hr shift is exactly what I need. so thanks for being awesome..... even you DD
Don, where is that first photo? Looks like White House in Canyon de Chelly but I'm not quite sure. Beautiful!
Sandi, not quite sure of the name of the place but it is somewhere near that location I took the photo while on a short road trip around indigenous areas. Took these two on the same day
I also think that's Canyon de Chelly. The whole area, and Chelly in particular, is spectacularly beautiful. Mesa Verde is better known but, as a consequence, has many more visitors.
You're right about Mesa Verde, @Adie P. I think there are more visitors not only because more people know about it but also because it's much more accessible to people and nearer to other places they'd like to travel like Durango CO. Mesa Verde is in the SW corner of Colorado and is spectacular. We've ridden there a couple times when doing motorcycle trips in that area. The ride up to the mesa is astounding. I'm not sure what the altitude change is from the Visitor Center to the top of the mesa but the altitudes at the top are around 8,000 ft. The distance from the Visitor Center to Cliff Palace is 22 miles and the roads are quite steep and twisty most all the way there. The cliff dwelling in these photos is Cliff Palace, the largest cliff dwelling in North America. Taken at the Visitor Center
It rained most of the day in Tucson on Christmas Day but the sun came out in the midst of it and this was the magnificent result This photo was taken from the river path by our house. Yep, there's always some silver lining--even when it rains and you want to go for a ride!
Definitely so, DCS. That whole area is spectacular. When we've been there on the motorcycles it has been in the midst of a trip through other spectacular areas in northern Arizona and New Mexico, Colorado (primarily around the San Juan Mountains), and Monument Valley. There are so many great places in the American West.
