Trip East -Spring 2009

I've not had much time to update the blog since I arrived back in New Hampshire. I'll fill you in on why in my next post. Meanwhile, here is a quick synopsis, with highlights, of my last trip home.


White Sands, New Mexico was awesome. From the distance you start seeing these small white hills and then you're in the midst of large white gypsum sand dunes.


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Driving the Park roads made me think I was driving New Hampshire snowy roads...... So much so that I kept expecting the car to slip and slide on ice.
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They even plow the roads to keep the sand off of the pavement. The dirty sand even looked like dirty winter snow.
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For 30 years (in another life) I was involved with British cars and at one time we owned 7 of them. It was a delight to meet this couple at the Monument gift center. They had actually driven their MG TC on my dream trip..... The entire Pan American Highway from South America to Alaska. Here are some of their notes from the trip when they were in Arizona.




We were passing Mullinville KS when we saw a strange fence line and couldn't figure out just what it was. So we took a detour and enjoyed ourselves with several fields of "found object art".





Seems the artist had a problem with town politics!





We stopped in the middle of nowhere for lunch one day and this beautiful wall caught my eye. The weathered and faded paint just made a beautiful design.





It was a quick trip, a month earlier than usual, but I had bought a NH house in January and wanted to get renovations started as soon as possible.