Spring road trip 2011 - pics
 

Since goodgirl's birthday is coming up, as a birthday present, we are on a little road trip. These photos are from the drive to Sedona, AZ from Tempe.

All the photos will be up on GotBaddog.com


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Nice pics :thumbsup

great pics :thumbsup

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I didn't even notice the homes in this picture, at first. Very cool how they blend into the environment.

great pics... amazing...

great pics mate!

Nice photos, I've always liked Sedona and Prescott!


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awesome pics dude!

Great pics :thumbsup

Nice ones.. But let me just say that nothing says spring like girls in Bikini's Can you try for some of them next time?? hummm???? Thanks

Great pics. :thumbsup

For some reason, the first thing that popped into my head when i saw this pic was this commercial that's on tv here just now:




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amazing pics, I always love your pics. I did that trip also and loved Sedona

nice shots!

Nice pics :thumbsup

Thanks for sharing!

nice pics and good photography technique

Thanks everyone. Just arrived in Moab, so going to check out the new brewery they have, then I will start putting up more galleries. The southwest is fucking amazing. I am just bummed that there is no way I can take pics of everything we have seen. Time for beer.

After we left Sedona, we headed to Flagstaff to check out a new micro brewery, The Lumberyard. Good beer, dine elsewhere.


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The next day we decided to go the Grand Canyon. We avoided the Interstate and took the back roads in. There we found the Arizona Snowbowl.


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We left the Snowbowl and continued to the Grand Canyon. I ad never entered from this direction, so was not sure which way to go. I took a right hand turnoff and discovered . . . .


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You can see all these pics on GotBaddog.com

just beautiful! I love pics from all your road trips!

Thanks, glad you enjoy. Since the Grand Canyon rocks, here are a few more before we head out for another day of adventure.


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Great Pics.

When I lived in Phoenix, I used to go camping up in Sedona all the time. Loved it up there.

nice pics man

Nice pics

Looking forward to seeing the Moab ones.

Nice pics man!

We ended up spending an extra day here to make a 350 mile loop to check out stuff we have never seen before. Utah is simply amazing. I still have a couple more AZ galleries to get up, then Utah.

Need a beer first though. :drinkup

So, when we got around the Grand Canyon, it dropped us off onto Navajo Land. I can understand a lot more now. Anyway, we came across a ranch where they found dinosaur tracks, bones, droppings, eggs. Lots of cool stuff. A couple samples.

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The next day we went to Four Corners National Monument


You can see all the pics on GotBaddog.com. I am just pulling out one out of 40 or 60, the slide show makes it easy.

Here are some from Four Corners Monument

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great pics lloyd

cool pictures man!

Beautiful pics :thumbsup

great pics as always. Hats off

Thanks. As the travel brochure for Moab says, it is pretty easy to get a good shot around here. Hopefully the sun shines more today so I can get some sharp colors. Yesterday would have been much better sans the cloud cover.


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Great pics man, you outdid yourself this time!

Amazing landscape and views! Packing my bag now!

Just got back home. Spent several hours in Arches today, then the cloud cover started moving in, so we drove 700 miles home. I will go back to posting pics after I get up. Thanks for the compliments.

I forgot, I put up a gallery before we left this morning of the Hovenweep National Monument. Pretty cool scenery . . . to be expected by now. :)


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dont forget the beer :drinkup :drinkup

Sadly, Utah does not seem to have very good beer.

Anyway, after leaving Hovenweep we headed to Moab, which happened to have the convenience of a microbrewery and Arches National Park within spitting distance. These are some of the pics of the drive thru southeast Utah into Moab.


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Thanks to Google images, our plan to go to Arches National Park got put on hold. goodgirl found some photos of Natural Bridges National Park. Since it was only going to take a day, we changed our plans and went there instead. Here are a few samples.


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Since we were in the general neighborhood, we decided to check out a portion of Lake Powell, in the Glen Canyon area.


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Thursday, we were running out of time. So many places to see and so little time. We decided to go ahead and head into Arches National Park. Here are a few samples of what we saw.


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Since the clouds were messing with us, we decided to try and get to the Valley of Fire before sunset. Unfortunately, there were even more clouds there. So, our photo journey ended in Utah at the San Rafael Reef.


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The route, if interested - http://goo.gl/KQDtw

Nice pics, I would have never expected to see so much green there.

The green made it real easy to tell when you were getting close to a water source, that is for sure.

Of course, some of the green is oxidized iron.