Feb. 9, 2015:
We've been staying in Phoenix for the past week with our good friend Ben. The drive down here from Seattle was amazing! One of the things that struck me about these wide-open western states was the bigness of it all. The picture above in Nevada illustrates it for me. You can see someone at the far end of the valley, driving towards you, and yet not pass them for a good 10 minutes, even though you are heading 70 mph towards each other.
As we entered Arizona we saw Hoover Dam for the first time. That feat of 1930's engineering has awed me from pictures since I was a kid. While we've been in Phoenix, we've been working on our online class, but have had time to enjoy being here. We've visited some sights from the old west. Ben and I have loved the old west since we were kids, so that was a treat. See some pics below from the ghost town Goldfield, and you can see the full set of photos on Flickr here.
Tomorrow we leave Phoenix and set out for Dallas. We're very grateful to be renting a room there from a Christian family that Jenneka got in touch with, and are looking forward to settling down there for a while.
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| Jenneka: "Mom and Dad, look how big the cacti are out here!" |
Is that cacti for real??...
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