Wednesday, May 26, 2010

i'm so lonesome i could cry...






whoa! but it was another day driving across the "great american desert" or as some know it "the great basin" area that includes nevada and utah. today was almost a carbon-copy of yesterday...lots of high desert landscape with rabbit brush, sagebrush, sierra juniper, and piñon pine. and the wind is still with us (i don't think we have a wind-free day since we left tennessee). as we approached richfield, utah on the eastern side of utah, the scenery got a little bit better as the high desert gave way to ranches and farming operations. the lush fields of alfalfa hay growing in circular fields being water-sprinkled by "pivots" that circle around and around for watering. these fields are about a mile in diameter. there were also quite a few old wind-worn structures like barns and houses that were abandoned years ago. some of these old structures were falling to the ground. as you can see, this was not one of the most interesting days on our trip. maybe we are both getting a little bit bone-weary from traveling for almost a month, but there are a couple more days that will be just driving from point a to point b. tomorrow we will enter colorado and stay at the koa in grand junction before continuing on to the denver area to see more family. we are hoping that will be our rocky mountain high...