Wait ... so if the sun is descending, that means that dusk is "ascending"? Ow my brain hurts.


F#$% it. This looks pretty

It’s all a matter of perspective. :3

I only ever saw the American Southwest once but it looked amazing, especially the mesas. You really caught that sense of awe here.

Thank you so much! I have never been myself, but I hope to soon.

Lover's Leap or Devils Gorge, interesting sunset. Looks like the barren and bleak New Mexico, cell phones don't work there, there are no cell towers for several hundred miles in any direction, for today's furs with phones this is truly a desolate place, you will be alone, (mostly since your phone won't work but it keeps good time)!

This is heavily inspired by that part ofthe world, yes. No communication you say? Perfect!

When I left Michigan in 2007 (47 below zero and icy flurries wind chill added it was -54 below, carl Levin was still Senator and was all out for Global warming, so I guess it was supposed to be 50 degrees colder!)

I drove through New Mexico on the way to Arizona. It was zero phone service all the way across. I had Verizon-works-everywhere at that time, except there. It took all day from 3 am in the panhandle of Texas to drive across New Mexico until I checked into a motel in Santa Rosa New Mexico on the border, where the Rocky Mountains begin. I checked into my room at 8 pm exhausted from driving all day with only a stop for gas twice.

I turned on the tv to catch the weather report which stated the roads would be blocked until June since the snow was dropping fast in the Rockies! I loaded my truck back up and got back on the road I did not want to be stuck in New Mexico until the thaw for four months!

I drove through to Alburqeque on the other side of the Rockies, and got gas then found out Bugs Bunny was right the freeway in Albuquerque is a five-lane stop sign with either a left or right turn! The freeway offramp was seven miles back for the detour that got me back on the 40 interstate.

I drove through five feet of snow. everyone in the gas station was shocked I was going to drive on through to Arizona, they said, "you're not going to drive in that are you?". pointing at the road in disbelief, I said: "just look at my plates this is every year where I'm from!" I had Michigan plates. I dove on to a small town on the other side of flagstaff at the beginning of the other higher half of the Rockies in Arizona. there is like a little bit of flat mesa then the Rockies start again. it is not indicated on the map but it is there. I stopped in (weirdly the same name) Santa Rosa Arizona. Arizona is quicker to cross than New Mexico it only took half the day to get to the California border. I took the 40 because the weather report in Indiana when I left Michigan had a storm front dumping twenty feet of snow on the 90, 80, 70, 60 and the route 66 - interstate 50, which went through the worst parts of Colorado called death highway. So I did not want to take the long way on the 10 so I took the 44 down to the 40 then across. I made fair time it only took five days to drive to Ca. from Mi.