Type: Photos
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Painted Sign at Cadillac Ranch
Read This Post: Painted Sign at Cadillac RanchCadillac Ranch is an interesting attraction located just west of Amarillo, Texas, on Interstate 40. Here, there are several Cadillacs sticking up vertically from the ground. And people can get up close to spray paint the cars and, apparently, anything else they can find. Here we find irony: a sign saying not to spray paint…
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Road Outside of Cadillac Ranch
Read This Post: Road Outside of Cadillac RanchThere might be as much paint outside of Cadillac Ranch as there is on the cars themselves. Here the frontage road has become a canvas where people can use the spray paint they just bought to create whatever they want, though usually its just their names.
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Southbound Train Rolling Past the Brenham Santa Fe Depot
Read This Post: Southbound Train Rolling Past the Brenham Santa Fe DepotToday, the old Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway tracks running north to south through the town of Brenham, Texas, are only main line tracks through the town. Today, it’s a part of the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe’s Galveston Subdivision between Temple and Galveston. And as luck would have it, we’ve got a southbound…
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Northbound Train Rolling Past the Brenham Santa Fe Depot
Read This Post: Northbound Train Rolling Past the Brenham Santa Fe DepotThe Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway was the second railroad line to travel through the small Texas town of Brenham, part of a line connecting Fort Worth to Galveston via Temple. It was the second railroad line through the town after the Washington County Rail Road reached the town from the east. Today, the…
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Sunset Over a Tuscon Hotel and Food Truck
Read This Post: Sunset Over a Tuscon Hotel and Food TruckGetting a bite to eat at the hotel with a great food truck is a great way to end the day. The fact that this view comes with a spectacular view of the sunset and A Mountain as well as the creative artwork that adorns the entire hotel makes it an absolutely perfect evening. After…
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Sunset Over Tucson
Read This Post: Sunset Over TucsonThe end of a long day of travel and rain brought with it a spectacular blue, purple and orange sunset. And the setting for this sunset could not have been anymore picturesque. Sentinel Peak and A Mountain provide a great background for this moment as we begin to wind down for the day and get…
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Rainbow Over Tucson
Read This Post: Rainbow Over TucsonThe road to Tucson turned into a race between us and an approaching storm. Unfortunately, the storm won the race. But after roughly 30 minutes of heavy rain, the storm welcomed us to town with this spectacular double rainbow that we could see from end to end. They say it never rains in the desert,…
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Panoramic of Sedona Red Rock Mountains
Read This Post: Panoramic of Sedona Red Rock MountainsThe Schnebly Hill Formation dominates the landscape around Sedona, Arizona. These red rocks are unique to this area as this is the only place that this color of sandstone can be found. Today it provides the absolute perfect backdrop to lunch on our travels from Flagstaff to Phoenix and beyond. And if it looks this…
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Mountains North of Sedona
Read This Post: Mountains North of SedonaThe area around Sedona along U.S. Route 89 A is known for its spectacular views and impressive mountain formations. As we travel down this picturesque mountain road, we get a brief glimpse of the amazing red mountain formations through the trees. And it’s only a taste of what’s to come once we reach Sedona.
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Flagstaff Train Station and a Passing Train
Read This Post: Flagstaff Train Station and a Passing TrainThe stillness of the Flagstaff train station is broken as a BNSF manifest train rumbles by. During the heyday of rail travel, this was a stop for many of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe’s Chicago to Los Angeles trains, including the Super Chief and El Capitan. But tonight it sits empty as both the…
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Flagstaff Hotel
Read This Post: Flagstaff HotelWelcome weary traveler! After a long day of driving along Route 66, a room at the Hotel Monte Vista is waiting for you. Umm, just don’t mind the ghosts, please. Oh, and that wonderful neon sign used to not just be for show. It used to be an emergency beacon in the 1930s, signaling the…
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BNSF Train Through Flagstaff
Read This Post: BNSF Train Through FlagstaffWarning gates flash their red lights and sound their bells. Seconds later, gates come down to block the railroad tracks to car and pedestrian traffic. A few more moments later, headlights appear around the corner to the west. An eastbound manifest train is traveling through Flagstaff, Arizona, on the BNSF’s double tracked southern transcontinental route….
