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Eastern Colorado:

Kansas:

Oklahoma:

Texas Panhandle:

New Mexico:

This is Mount Capulin, a volcanic cone. You can see the road on the side of it - cars can go to the very top and then you can hike down into the crater and pretend it's really hot in there, or walk a trail around the rim.

Southern Colorado:

Northern Colorado:

posted on May 5, 2013 11:44 AM ()

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Those plains states are so flat!

comment by kristilyn3 on May 21, 2013 9:44 AM ()

Colorado was the nicest, but you knew that. When I lived in Chicago, I would sometimes travel east to various places. I always had to drive through Indiana -- it can't get any uglier than northeast Indiana. I didn't see lovely country till I reached halfway through Ohio and met some rolling hills. Pennsylvania was a treat.

comment by tealstar on May 6, 2013 7:00 AM ()

Out here in the west, we have a lot of not-so-interesting places we have to endure to get to where we're going. Usually, I can find some redeeming feature of the landscape, but some of the drives are so long, pretty soon the lack of variety puts me to sleep.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 9:54 AM ()

Magic!

comment by jondude on May 6, 2013 6:49 AM ()

If you lived down in southern Colorado, you'd be painting Fisher's Peak and the Spanish Peaks all the time. The general area is kind of flat and blah, so they really stand out.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 9:49 AM ()

I rarely see flat land around here. Donna is still waiting to see a real sunset--where it falls below the horizon and not behind a ridge and hour before "sunset", but that's life!

comment by jjoohhnn on May 5, 2013 4:28 PM ()

I was surprised at how really flat some parts of Oklahoma are - you can see for miles and miles. It would be a good place for meteor showers and watching the sun all the way down.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 9:41 AM ()

I hate to say that Oklahoma didn't look much better than Kansas but at least
it was green.

comment by elderjane on May 5, 2013 4:02 PM ()

Kansas was soft jade green, and northern Oklahoma was bright green, almost chartreuse. All the fields and roadsides were painted with the same bright green - as if the entire state was a golf course. I didn't take a picture of it because the car windows were dirty, and I figured I'd be going back that way. I'm so glad I made a round trip of it, because I couldn't have survived another drive through boring Kansas.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 9:52 AM ()

I was going to say "What? No snow?" and then I got to the last picture

I wish more Americans would travel around the US--it really is a beautiful country especially when traveling by car!

comment by greatmartin on May 5, 2013 2:49 PM ()

I always thought we'd take more road trips in our retirement, but the way things have gone, it hasn't worked out that way. We used to, and I miss it a lot.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 9:56 AM ()

Great post, Laura. Felt like I was riding along with you!

comment by marta on May 5, 2013 2:41 PM ()

You would have been good company.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 10:00 AM ()

I like the last pix the best b/c it's off the road, in the woods.

comment by steeve on May 5, 2013 2:35 PM ()

After all that big open, I was glad to get home. That's the path up to where I take the cell phone to get a signal.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 9:42 AM ()

very nice there Laura.

comment by fredo on May 5, 2013 12:59 PM ()

It was a quick trip, but worth it.

reply by troutbend on May 6, 2013 9:43 AM ()

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