Our good friends Vlad, Inna, Bev and Craig
Oklahoma: Cowboy and Western Museum
Museum; Norman, OK ; Oklahoma City
Oklahoma: Stockyard and Stockyard City
Funeral of a motor-cyclist; Friends Corey, Amber, Ethan; Oklahoma Zoo ; bird nest at Albertsons
Snakes and alligators at the Oklahoma Zoo
2 cowboys
Adrian Texas !! Yes there is a town called Adrian in Texas ! Here are some pictures from the church, postoffice and the 'grand avenue'
We stoped-over in Amarillo Texas, before we headed on towards Roswell, New Mexiko
Roswell, New Mexiko: Famous UFO town ! We had to go there ! UFO museum ! Were running out of gas in the desert ! State Patrol helped and brought us back !
Santa Fe: Adrian eating his first 'frog legs' ; nightly walk in Santa Fe; on the way to Taos, New Mexico
Visited Taos Pueblo, where the people still live without electricity and using fresh water from the creek. It was very interesting.
Taos Pueblo more info about Taos Pueblo
Cool boy ! ; Arkansa river ; a tired Adrian ; our fridge: lots of drinks
Rocky Mountain National Park: Hiking in 8700 feet elevation ; my niece Lena
wonderful nature, but thin air
Adrian got high altitude sickness and we had to go back
A still active gold mine ; visiting and gold panning (yes, we found gold)
Mesa Verde National Park ; A long winding road will take you to heights more than 8400 feet above sea level and more than 1000 years back in time.
The sheer cliffs, deep canyons and plateaus of Mesa Verde (Spanish for 'green table') are scored with Ancestral Puebloan sites, some reaching five stories
and 200 rooms. This is one of the American South-West's most popular vacation areas.
Once occupied by the ancestral Puebloan Indian from 600 A.D. until sometime in the 1200s. And here are 2 modern 'city-indians' !!!
Grand Canyon in Arizona
Four Corners in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado; this is Ute and Navajo land !
Adrian with his feet in Arizona and Utah and his hands in Colorado and New Mexico ; the seals of the four states
Ghost Town Saint Elmo, nearby Buena Vista, had a rough reputation. Miners came from miles around every saturday night to drink and fight
Ocean Journey Aquarium
Arches National Park Utah preserves over two thousand natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition
to a variety of unique geological resources and formations. The worlds largest concentration of natural stone arches.
A mountain lion on the tree with a young cat below
Great Sand DunesNational Monument Colorado; 39 square miles of sand dune, some of which top out at 700 feet high, higher than a 70-story building
The dunes are shifting constantly and walking around on them is strenuous. The sand can reach daytime temperatures of 140 Fahrenheit.
The wind on top of the dunes is so strong that the small sand particles hurt
Cadillac Ranch Texas
Funny Adrian
Heinz, Patrick, Adrian, Lena, Katie
Firefighters Day
Manitou Springs Cliff Dwellings ; Native Americans perform dances in front of 'authentic Indian' ruins. The distinctive stone houses
tucked into the overhangs of Phantom Cliff Canyon were relocated here in the early 1900s by archaelogists who feared that their
original southwestern sites were too susceptible to plundering
A great evening at the Elk Lodge with food, dancing and great country music
Scottish Festival on Highlands Ranch
Grand Mesa National Forest ; the world's greatest mesa ; 53 square miles reaching altitudes of 11000 feet
The Land's End Road is not for the faint-hearted, for it plunges down the rim for 14 miles delivering dizzying views of the
Colorado River Valley, 5000 feet below
Hovenweep National Monument Utah ; Hovenweep is a Ute word meaning ' deserted valley' and it accurately describes this rocky arroyo landscape that straddles
the Colorado/Utah border. It was extremely hot and there are lots of rattlesnakes in the area. Six individual Ancestral Puebloan sites can be explored.
More photos here.
Monument Valley Utah / Arizona, home of many western movies, is part of the Navajo Nation and is considered one of the natural wonders of the world
because of the beauty of the enormous "monuments" of stone that have evolved from nature. Photos from Dan Heller here. ; more photos
Many people call it the eighth wonder of the world and 2nd most photographed place on earth. virtual panorama pictures here
Visiting Navajo land ; a shopping center in Tuba City ; indian food at Hogan's restaurant; the Navajo Nation is the largest Indian Reservation in USA
Ouray ('Switzerland of America') and the Box Canyon Falls
Garden of the Gods a 1400 acres National Natural Landmark within the foothills of Pikes Peak. Pink and red sandstone formations twisted by eons of weather into
fantastic shapes protrude throughout the park.
