Engineering a New World

While my wife & I are on our way across the country, I finally was able to stop at a place that’s got wifi, so I’m finally able to upload and work with some of the photos & video that I’ve been taking over the last 48 hrs.   (Sorry, yet another opportunity for me to dig on one of the iphone’s only faults — no video). 

We’ve been driving through Utah, Colorado and Kansas over the last 2 days, and have gotten to travel on what I feel are the most breathtakingly beautiful stretches of U.S. Interstate highway that there is.  

Here’s a little sampling:

This was a rest stop in Utah on the I-70, not even marked as a “scenic turnout” or “vista” or anything. Just a bathroom stop.

And this is Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, part of what is the newest stretch of I-70, completed in 1996. Unfortunately, I left my wide-angle lens in the car!

And then here’s driving through the Eisenhower Tunnel on the I-70, at around 9,500 feet in altitude:

As we make our way across Utah and into Colorado, I’m letting Kat drive for a bit so I can take advantage of the fact that we’ve had Edge data service across most of eastern Utah. Lack of ANY service in Western Utah cost us our hotel reservation when we couldn’t call or message them that we were running late, and then a slimy fellow at the Budget in gave away our room. Anyhow, the scenery in the area overcame that slimebucket, thankfully.

I’m stopped at a Burger King in St. George, UT right now, and mercifully they have wi-fi.    I’m spending most of my time, however, reviewing all of the photos we took on our slice through the Yellow Knolls near the Arizona/Nevada/Utah border.  I kept my eyes on the road as Kathryn snapped pics.  Really quite something.  

Hopefully this video will do it a little bit of justice: 

Soon as I have a bit more time, I’ll stick these on a proper Flickr slideshow.