From California to Alabama
January, 2006
Starting the second loop of our road trip on a down note, we both came down with the flu and spent a week in a motel in Bakersfield, California
The lowest point in North America (in Death Valley)
Hiking in Death Valley
Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas
Hoover Dam
The Apache Trail east of Phoenix with a 1.5 mile stretch of 13% dirt downgrade hugging the edge of the canyon wall
A desert arboretum
Tombstone, Arizona
Bisbee, Arizona, where there once was a huge copper mine
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
The natural entrance we walked down 700 vertical feet into Carlsbad Cavern
One of countless wonders in the cavern
Geological wonders everywhere we go
This is one of several small micro-environments that have evolved in depressions atop a 400 foot high granite dome we climbed in the Hill Country of Texas
LBJ's boyhood home
Hurricane Rita and Katrina devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi
Crossing Mobile Bay in Alabama
