Chopstork

Got up at dawn Tuesday to take some pictures at Sunset Crater and Wupatki, just outside Flagstaff. Wupatki has several pueblo ruins that are built on top of rock formations so the inhabitants could look over the desert. We got here early enough that no one else was there, so we got to take our time with the self-guided tour.

A picture Laura took in the Sunset Crater park.

Back in Flagstaff, we had lunch and browsed through a lady’s art studio where her and her husband make animals out of silverware. This is the tortoise assembly line with a sea turtle in the forground:

Then we drove across the painted desert to Albuquerque and then to Las Cruces. The desert is not as desolate as I thought it would be. And the views are nice the whole way, with the pink dirt and cliff formations everywhere. Which made me wonder—do kids that grow up around here think dirt is purple? We think the purple and pink dirt is neat. Do they go to other places and get all excited that the dirt is brown?

I discovered that gas is only 86 octane in New Mexico. They don’t have those accordion plastic things over the gas nozzle either, but I do like that the gas pumps way faster than CA.

Laura noticed that there is a lot more Pepsi in the Soutwest than Coke. The gas stations are stocked full of Pepsi, the restaurants serve Pepsi and have Pepsi cups. What the hell does Pepsi mean, anyway?

The desert in NM was covered in snow too. I wish I’d stopped to take some pictures, but I didn’t want to be driving too late. I thought New Mexico was supposed to be hot. It has Mexico in the name.

Moving

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