Hey Nando, it was a bucket list trip, for sure. I'd been to most of the places when I was a kid, but Pat had not. She took a lot more pix than I did as I was concentrating on my landscape work and we didn't really have the time for me to sit and wait on early morning or late afternoon light. Consequently, I was always hunting scenes that would translate well to B&W or the infrared film look, which is what these three are representative of.
It was a top-down, two lane road, blue highway kind of trip. Odd ball stops like the world's largest ball of twine, the Cadillac Ranch, that kind of thing. Plenty of history as well with Truman, Hoover, Eisenhower and Lincoln Libraries, a Pony Express station, Wounded Knee, Sitting Bull's grave, and of course, the big monuments - Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse. We camped 8 nights and stayed in hotels the other six. It kinda depended on the weather. But the big pony was pretty full - camping gear in the back seat and clothing and supplies in the trunk.
And this will warm your V-8 lovin' heart: that Mustang GT has longer legs than Charlize Theron. It just chews up the backroads and with the Koni shocks keeping everything under control, it handled like a champ as well.
So far, no one at the University has offered me enough money to work all 12 months, that's for sure. Not with opportunities like this. I love my music, photography, and fishing but travel is the ultimate luxury as far as I'm concerned.
