Tag: Travel
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They don’t make them like they used to
I love motel rooms that have original bathroom features. These days hotels and motels have fixtures that will fall apart in less than a decade. The Aneth Lodge in Cortez Colarado has a bath, sink and toilet built to last. I’m not sure how old the motel is, but the bathroom has a Deco feel.…
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Ear of the wind
Ear of the wind When the wind blows in Monument Valley, the fine sand whirls, stinging your eyes, coating the inside of your ears and mouth. Tourists with gritty teeth who are sight seeing in open vehicles with no protection from the wind resort to tying bandannas to cover their mouths. They look like “baddies”…
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A venerable pine
Bristlecone Pine I fell in love with the silvery smooth twisted trunks of this Bristlecone Pine. The tree stood close to edge literally, at the canyon rim near Spectra Point in the Cedar Breaks National Monument, and just above 10,000 feet, the uppermost altitude at which the pine grows. In North America there are Bristlecone…