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Just returned from my nephew's wedding in LAs Vegas (Actually Henderson). We took some side trips and sightseeing along the way. We detoured down to Sedona, AZ (Beautiful x 10000). Also, we too a trip up to Page AZ to view the famous Horseshoe Bend where the Colorado River makes a dramatic "U-turn." A few pictures from the trip:

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Wow - Great photos. What a spectacular area - I need to get down there again!

Tom M.
 
NutmegCT said:
Wow - Great photos. What a spectacular area - I need to get down there again!

Tom M.
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One of the most beautiful areas was Sedona - only 23 miles from Flagstaff. (Also a very fun road to drive - lots of switchbacks)
 
I like the position of the sun in the picture of the horse shoe, did you have to wait long for it to get to the edge?
 
waltesefalcon said:
I like the position of the sun in the picture of the horse shoe, did you have to wait long for it to get to the edge?
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We got there around 5PM and waited a couple of hours for sunset. I was hoping for a more dramatic sunset with some clouds, but this is what it was. I'm happy with the star burst pattern that happened without any special filter.
 
Nice pictures. We drove back from Colorado to California on Hwy 50 and looked for Pronghorn to take pictures of. They were always too far away. Then we saw the car in front of us hit one. I really did not want a picture of a dead Pronghorn.
 
Hwy 89 was the main road when I was a child. We would camp near Sedona and listen all night to the big trucks coming down the hill from Flag heading to Jerome....no that is another unique place.
Hard to believe that so many trucks/cars used that road!
 
Jerry said:
Nice pictures. We drove back from Colorado to California on Hwy 50 and looked for Pronghorn to take pictures of. They were always too far away. Then we saw the car in front of us hit one. I really did not want a picture of a dead Pronghorn.
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Those were spotted by my wife at a scenic overlook just south of Hoover Dam. She saw them way off in the distance. That picture was taken with a 300mm lens and even with that I had to crop it quite a bit to get good closeups.
 
Grantura_MKI said:
Hwy 89 was the main road when I was a child. We would camp near Sedona and listen all night to the big trucks coming down the hill from Flag heading to Jerome....no that is another unique place.
Hard to believe that so many trucks/cars used that road!
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That would be a fun road to drive in a little British sports car!
 
They were great. My brother lived in Prescott for a number of years and would travel over for long weekends.
Would travel through Wickenburg on up the hill to Prescott Valley and on up and down the roller coaster.
I can’t recommend that drive enough. When I have friends over from England, I alway send them out that way then to Vegas and back too me. Makes a nice 3-4 day journey.
 
Grantura_MKI said:
They were great. My brother lived in Prescott for a number of years and would travel over for long weekends.
Would travel through Wickenburg on up the hill to Prescott Valley and on up and down the roller coaster.
I can’t recommend that drive enough. When I have friends over from England, I alway send them out that way then to Vegas and back too me. Makes a nice 3-4 day journey.
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We sometimes vacation in a friend's timeshare in Cave Creek.
 
That's such a different (and magnificent) geography than the one we're in. Great pix, Basil!
 
DrEntropy said:
That's such a different (and magnificent) geography than the one we're in. Great pix, Basil!
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Yep, it's definitely different than where you are! On the other hand, when you're in NM or AZ you can't easily go to the beach! (yeah we have some lakes, but that's not the same).
 
We live in an amazing country geography-wise. If an ET landed in only one spot in the US, he would take back pictures that would have no relevance to anywhere else. New Englanders love the desert and high mountains. So different from our world. In the summer especially, in most areas, we have no horizon. No Big Sky Country here.
 
pdplot said:
We live in an amazing country geography-wise. If an ET landed in only one spot in the US, he would take back pictures that would have no relevance to anywhere else. New Englanders love the desert and high mountains. So different from our world. In the summer especially, in most areas, we have no horizon. No Big Sky Country here.
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And those of us out west love the beautiful fall colors of New England!
 
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