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Tomorrow morning I will load up the family (myself, my mother, my oldest son, and my daughter) and head out to San Diego to see my youngest son graduate from boot camp at the MCRD. My middle son will be meeting us out there. This will be the kids' first trip to any of the states we are going to be traveling through so I plan on stopping at Enchanted Mesa and the Acoma Pueblo, the Petrified Forrest, and the Hoover Dam. I am skipping the Grand Canyon because I reckon that it'll be awfully busy this time of year.
 
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Sounds like fun!

FWIW, the Grand Canyon is pretty big. Although it does get busy around there, I've never seen it so busy that I didn't enjoy it. But I like Canyon De Chelly better

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Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
 
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Canyon De Chelly is pretty awesome. I'm on the fence about hitting the Grand Canyon, it is out of the way but so is the Hoover dam. I suppose we could do both.
 
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waltesefalcon said:
Canyon De Chelly is pretty awesome. I'm on the fence about hitting the Grand Canyon, it is out of the way but so is the Hoover dam. I suppose we could do both.
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On the way back, check out meteor crater. By the way, did you wave when you drove past my house?
 
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waltesefalcon said:
Canyon De Chelly is pretty awesome. I'm on the fence about hitting the Grand Canyon, it is out of the way but so is the Hoover dam. I suppose we could do both.
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Speaking of Canyon De Chelly, here are a couple of signed prints of the Canyon from Native American artist Justin Tso whose family runs (or did) horseback tours of the canyon.

He signed and presented these to me as a thank you for, lets just say something I had done for one of his family members. These hang proudly in my living room as do two other from him that are in the hallway.

>> Justin Tso <<

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Bas, Meteor Crater is pretty cool, there are several places I'd like to stop on the way back I just don't know if we'll have time. This is the kid's first time to any place further west than the Oklahoma panhandle so I am trying to focus on the big stops. I not only waved but I almost stopped for dinner with you. My mom thought it would be an imposition. Those are great prints you have and a good story to accompany them. I actually have a small collection of native art spread between my house and classroom.
 
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waltesefalcon said:
Bas, Meteor Crater is pretty cool, there are several places I'd like to stop on the way back I just don't know if we'll have time. This is the kid's first time to any place further west than the Oklahoma panhandle so I am trying to focus on the big stops. I not only waved but I almost stopped for dinner with you. My mom thought it would be an imposition. Those are great prints you have and a good story to accompany them. I actually have a small collection of native art spread between my house and classroom.
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When you come back through Albuquerque you might want to check out taking the Tram to the top of Sandia Crest.
 
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When you come back through Albuquerque you might want to check out taking the Tram to the top of Sandia Crest.
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through? Don't you turn right at Albuquerque? "whistle:
 
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I had forgotten about the Sandia tram, I haven't been on the that in over twenty years. We might just have time for that. I really wish that Matthew has graduated before school started back up, then we could have taken our time going out and coming back.
 
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Wife and I may be coming out that way. She's never been to Santa Fe or the Grand Canyon - I have. When my son graduated college, I flew out to Vegas and we drove - in his Mazda RX7 - all the way back to Chicago where I bailed out and flew home. We also visited Bryce canyon and Zion National Park.
 
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We came home through the Sonoran Desert, through Tucson, into Las Cruces, then up past White Sands to Ruidoso, over to Roswell, then to Lubbock and up to Altus, and Home.
 
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Ya went to Roswell and can still talk about it?!?

Musta ben in th' Cadillac. Immune to alien detection. They think it's one of their own. :smirk:
 
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"Musta ben in th' Cadillac."
Hah! We would have been if I had my way. My mom didn't want to go to California with the top down, apparently the wind would have messed up her hair.
 
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Bas, I have quite a few pictures but for some reason I cannot post them. Do we still have size limits on photos, and if so what is that limit?
 
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If we do fly out there, I'm undecided whether to fly into Vegas, Albuquerque, Tucson or Phoenix. It will be at the end of this month. Any suggestions from you westerners?
 
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Fly into Santa Fe and rent a car, plot out a good sight seeing trip in NM and AZ, then finish up in Vegas return the car and fly home from there.
 
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