Category: New Mexico

Day 5 & 6. Williams, Grand Canyon, Winslow and the Painted Desert.

ByByron September 8, 2016 0 Comments
One cannot always count on having useable wi-fi in hotels, a day in the Grand Canyon, combined with a few hours riding all adds up to missing a days' posting. Oh well, it's my blog, and nobody seems to be making any demands on my writing and photography skills, so there :) Anyway, we started out yesterday morning from Williams, AZ pretty early, and made our way up to the Grand Canyon. After...

Day 7 – Grants to Albuquerque

ByByron September 9, 2016 2 Comments
Again, I feel I must tell everyone that hasn't been to the American Southwest that if they haven't been, they MUST come here sooner than later. It is such a wonderfully rich landscape, full of wide open plains, surrounded by riotously coloured mesas, and just a never-ending series of "Wow, look at that" moments. It really is almost indescribable, simply because of the magnificent scale of it all....

Day 8 – Happy Birthday to me, in Santa Fe

ByByron September 12, 2016 3 Comments
Well, I did it, I made it to fifty! What can I say, it feels the same as 49, as you probably guessed :) Anyway, after leaving Albuquerque, and a frankly quite terrible hotel, we scampered up the I25 to hwy 550 to take the long way to Santa Fe, on the advice of my good friend Rene. Well, what a side-trip! We ended up stopping in Jemez Pueblo and had some 'fry bread' at one of the little roadside...

Day 9 & 10 – Texas, Oklahoma, and wind!

ByByron September 13, 2016 0 Comments
No, I am not getting lazy. I decided to compress the past two days into one post for a couple of reasons. First, Texas and Oklahoma just aren't as exciting (at least from the road) as the previous Southwestern states.  Second, the riding has been pretty bad through these states and I am getting a bit worn down. Especially today, through the first half of Oklahoma. There was a constant side wind...