tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80916349737454889672024-03-05T12:28:27.982-08:00Wild West AdventureM.Christyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758756422495505630noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091634973745488967.post-35167294006849087382016-08-24T09:13:00.001-07:002016-08-24T09:13:31.637-07:00Las Vegas and Valley Of Fire State Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In my last post I mentioned that we were based in Las Vegas while touring the area. We stayed in The Venetian Hotel on the Vegas strip. At this point, Kirk and Joan's daughter Natalie and her husband Burt joined us on our adventure. Here are a few photos of the Venetian Hotel, then on to The Valley of Fire State Park.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Canal. <br />
All of this structure is <em><strong>inside</strong></em> the Venetian. The sky is painted on the ceiling. <br />
You can take a ride on the canal in a gondola if you like.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of these structures are <em><strong>inside</strong></em> the Venetian in the area called The Canal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close-up photo of the painted ceiling.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More of The Canal and its shops, all of which are <em><strong>inside</strong></em> the Venetian Hotel.</td></tr>
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M.Christyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758756422495505630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091634973745488967.post-90479450607933111092016-08-12T11:10:00.001-07:002016-08-12T11:10:27.824-07:00Death Valley National Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Day five of our adventure, we arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada and checked in at the Venetian. More about the Venetian later. We used Vegas as our base while we explored surrounding areas.<br />
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Death Valley National Park was a two-hour drive from Vegas. It straddles the border of California and Nevada, and is located east of the Sierra Nevada. Located in a zone between the arid Great Basin and the Mojave Desert, it is a diverse desert environment of salt flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons and mountains.<br />
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The sky was a cloudless blue, and the temperature was 107 degrees the day of our visit. We were very conscious of always carrying an ample water supply and kept ourselves well hydrated.<br />
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Death Valley was very quiet with just the sound of flies buzzing nearby. I spotted a couple of lizards, but we didn't hear or see any other animal life, although bighorn sheep and coyote have adapted to this environment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If I remember correctly, this is the view from the top of Zabriskie Point where Borax mining took place using twenty-mule teams. It was a short but hot hike up from the parking lot.</td></tr>
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Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America at 282 feet below sea level. It is a surreal landscape of vast salt flats. It was very hot just walking out on the boardwalk. Once we stepped off the boardwalk onto the salt flats, it was like stepping into hell. Terrible heat radiated up from the earth to consume us. I stepped back onto the boardwalk to escape hell.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We didn't visit the area of the Sailing Stones. Just the same, here is information about them: For years, scientists have been puzzled by the mysterious "sailing stones" of Death Valley. The rocks' apparent movement has been blamed on everything from space aliens and magnetic fields to pranksters. But no one has actually seen the rocks move, which only adds to the mystery.A scientific research team calculated that under certain winter conditions in Death Valley, enough water and ice could form to float the rocks across the muddy bottom of Racetrack Playa in a light breeze, leaving a trail in the mud as the rocks moved<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was raining when we entered the Petrified Forest National
Park in Arizona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Painted Desert is a
part of this park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were a bit
discouraged that the day was foggy and drizzly and were sure we were not to see
it in the best light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, when we stopped
in the Visitor Center and spoke with a knowledgeable employee, he surprised us
with the news that we were there on the best day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained that the multi-hued layers of
Navaho sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and claystone, which had absorbed the moisture from
the rain, would enhance its color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He was right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
at the Painted Desert Inn, the fog began to lift and the Painted Desert began
reveal itself in vivid relief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Another special point of interest in this park is the Blue Mesa where we enjoyed more spectacular views from several overlooks.</div>
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Petrified wood can be seen at Crystal Forest and Giant Logs Trail.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Petrified wood, like many rocks and stones, is comprised
primarily of the mineral quartz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quartz
or silicon dioxide, as it is called by chemists, is formed of molecules of two
atoms of the element oxygen and one atom of the element silicon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although quartz is colorless in its purest
form, petrified wood usually is not because it contains small amounts of other
elements which produce a variety of colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When the Colorado land plate shifted upwards, it raised the
elevation of this area and caused it to change from rain forest to an arid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This shift in climate caused the forest to
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For those of you who wish for a scientific explanation of petrification, the
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Petrified wood; literally "wood turned into stone"
is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial
vegetation. It is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having completely transitioned
to stone by the process of permineralization. All the organic materials have
been replaced with minerals (mostly a silicate, such as quartz), while
retaining the original structure of the stem tissue. Unlike other types of
fossils which are typically impressions or compressions, petrified wood is a
three-dimensional representation of the original organic material. The
petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under
sediment or volcanic ash and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen
which inhibits aerobic decomposition. Mineral-laden water flowing through the
covering material deposits minerals in the plant's cells; as the plant's lignin
and cellulose decay, a stone mold forms in its place. The organic matter needs to
become petrified before it decomposes completely. A forest where such material
has petrified becomes known as a petrified forest.</span></div>
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Petrified Forest, AZ – "A new paved pull-out has been developed along the park road within Petrified Forest National Park,” stated Superintendent Lee Baiza. This new pull-out showcases a section of the old Route 66 trace that passes through the park. From the vantage point that the pull-out offers, visitors can view the roadbed and a line of historic telephone poles. The roadbed and telephone poles mark the path of the famous “Main Street of America” as it passed through Petrified Forest National Park. From Chicago to Los Angeles, this heavily traveled highway was not only a road. It stood as a symbol of opportunity, adventure, and discovery. Petrified Forest National Park is the only National Park that contains a section of the old highway.<br />
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In addition to the new pull-out, a 1932 Studebaker exhibit has been installed adjacent to the newly developed area. The car was donated to the National Park Service by Frank and Rhonda Dobell, owners of Arizona Automotive Service in Holbrook, Arizona.<br />
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M.Christyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758756422495505630noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091634973745488967.post-16272057120195600442016-07-01T22:26:00.000-07:002016-07-27T12:07:37.002-07:00White Sands National MonumentTraveled 425 miles today from Santa Rosa, NM to Chambers, AZ. Cell service was spotty for a good part of Rte. 54. Points of interest were Lincoln County - Billy The Kid Country and Carrizozo Malpais (Spanish for badlands).<br />
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We stopped in Carrizozo at a restroom, and according to G, Kirk learned to play the tuba! Meanwhile, in the women's room the handicap stall was occupied, and the other stall was missing the door, but a large, black trash bag was available to use as a handy temporary curtain. Joan was so kind as to hold the garbage bag up to shield me in the stall from the casual observer.<br />
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The Valley of Fires is located in Carrizozo in central NM. The Little Black Peak is a volcano vent. Lava flowed out of the earth in the Tularosa Valley covering many square miles of buckled, twisted basalt lava, part of an extensive flow up to 165 feet thick and over 45 miles long that originated from several nearby volcanoes.<br />
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<br />M.Christyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758756422495505630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091634973745488967.post-64128416001500029382016-06-30T21:07:00.001-07:002016-06-30T21:07:12.942-07:00Dinosaur Bones, Tuba Players And Route 66Today we traveled 717 miles from Little Rock, Arkansas to Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Once again, Kirk was our driver. He has amazing endurance!<br />
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On display at the New Mexico welcome center was a bronze cast of a dinosaur hip bone.<br />
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It was here at the welcome center that the guys were treated to a tuba player in the men's restroom. An anonymous tooter was "practicing" in the stall while G and Kirk were trying to stifle their laughter while using the urinals. We did not have any tooting musicians in the women's restroom.</div>
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The motel was a dive. Our rooms had old wall AC units. There must have been a sewer stack on the exterior near our AC unit, as it seemed to be sucking in sewer gas from outside our room. It was too late at night to change rooms. Slept hard. Sewer fumes probably knocked us out!</div>
M.Christyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09758756422495505630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8091634973745488967.post-6940944099913841812016-06-28T18:13:00.001-07:002016-06-29T19:53:03.771-07:00Get In, And Shut UpToday was the start of our grand adventure. My companions are my husband G and our good friends Kirk and Joan. Our goal is to visit sixteen U.S. National Parks in the next 27 days. We will drive 9,000 miles and visit 17 states and one Canadian providence.<br />
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Kirk did all the driving today, 537 miles from north Georgia to Little Rock, Arkansas where we intended to visit Hot Springs National Park. We arrived later than expected, and the park closed by 5 p.m. So, we missed it and need to keep moving tomorrow. <br />
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Our motto on this trip is: "Get In And Shut Up." We want to make sure we are still good friends by the end of this road trip.<br />
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In the Navigator are packed some interesting and amusing items including Kirk's coffee maker, two CPAP machines for the sleep apnea guys, two sets of hearing aids for the guys, and a violin. The violin is mine, and I need to practice while we travel so I don't lose any ground and for an upcoming recital.<br />
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Everyone behaved today. Kirk's phone did not behave. He was running "Ways" on it, and for awhile his iPhone would randomly play the Auburn University Fight Song. Auburn is Joan's Alma Mater. Kirk's is University of George - he's a Dawg. Joan swears she did not put that song on Kirk's phone.<br />
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After supper at The Texas Road House, we filed out to the parking lot. I headed for the nearest white SUV thinking it was Joan's vehicle and pulled at the locked door.<br />
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"Christy," Kirk called out. "We're parked over here."<br />
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We all laughed and climbed into Joan's Lincoln Navigator...all except G who was trying in vain to get into a third white SUV parked some distance away from us.<br />
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