lol @ the dicussion about straight roads!
i will post a summary when the diary is finished! keep checking the tread and you will see!
on the road again!
we know that we had to drive through the dessert and that there would not be too much to take pictures of but i like the desert.
i lived in fuertevenura (spain) for two years and the nature looks simular there...
the rocky mountain ridges came in sight
a beautyful corvette heading the same way
had to take a pic with the route 66 sign
and entered arizona
a fierce sandstorm came up, do you see the motorcycle rider batteling the sidewind
we saw a sign at the roadside that directed us to a " meteorite crater " was hoping it was the one i thought about!
and it was!!
http://www.barringercrater.com
really cool truck parked in the lot
there was also a test group of gm cars with a opel vectra as reference car
we slept in flagstaff and had pasta for the first time ....and beer!
the only thing that was crazy in flagstaff was the trains that run through the town and warn/horn at every crossing about every 5 minutes.
we drove on to go to see the grand canyon
on the map it didnt look too far of the interstate either so we drove off.
the road to the skywalk was not finished so we drove 45min on a gravelroad that looked like this
AND THEN THE BIGGEST BUMMER OF THE WHOLE TRIP!!!
we came to a big parking lot where we HAD to park our car to walk to a store to purchase tickets.
43$ each for a 10min busride to the rim of the grand canyon and 29,90 extra each if we want to go on the skywalk.
on top of that you where not allowed to take your OWN camera with you so that you would have to buy photos expensive of them.
what the heck???? it would have been about 170$ to see something nature made itself, that is a MAJOR RIP OFF!
my brother and i agreed that we would not throw our money away like that and drove off, sadly the only pics we have from the grand canyon are these here we took when we unlawful (!) stopped on the roadside pretending we had car trouble...
i was really angry that you have to pay to see a national nature monument so we drove back the way we came to come closer to our next planned stop,who can guess where that was???