WESTERN ROAD TRIP
I’m winding up the brief western road trip of the past couple of weeks today with some photos of the things you can see under Western Skies. Photos taken by Ken and by me.
Travel Photo Thursday:Western Skies
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Pioneering in North Dakota
Western Road Trip
Skipping northward today, we take a look at some Western history. When you travel in the Western United States, you are surrounded by history–not the centuries-old art and buildings that surround you in Europe, but the more recent history of settler’s trails, ghost towns, and mine camps.
Destination: North Dakota
Book: Dakota, or What’s a Heaven For (November 2010)by Brenda Marshall
This is a big book with a big story to tell. Although I have read a lot of western history, I had no idea of the way that the Dakotas (at the time of the novel one territory rather than North and South) were settled. The story of Dakota, Or What’s a Heaven For
The Sun Rises at Bryce Canyon, Utah
TRAVEL PHOTO THURSDAY
I would never want to dismiss the beauty of the other Western states, particularly my own–Arizona– but certainly high on my list of favorite Western road trips is southern Utah with its cluster of National Parks and Monuments protecting some pretty spectacular landscape. This series of photos reminds me that although I told my friend Keith Jenkins at Velvet Escape, when he published some dawn photos, that sunrise was only a rumor to me–it turns out I actually DID get up at dawn at Bryce Canyon.
