Sunday, September 7, 2008

Wide open space, big endless sky and beautiful land

Today was a day of wide open spaces, huge sky (it looks bigger which is something I always heard people say about this part of the country) and land that is just breathtakingly beautiful. We saw real cowboys on horseback, riding through the fields and we even stopped at a Cowboy Historic Town, which made me think a lot of my dear brother-in-law, Flavio. No pics of the cowboys girls, sorry. (I was driving...)


We drove 350 miles through North Dakota and another hundred and something through Montana. ND is beautiful, the road is wide and you can see miles ahead.


The cargo trains are amazingly long and move very very slowly, I have a video of one of them because it would be impossible to show it through still picture.

There are sunflower fields, one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen and it reminded me of a colleague from work back in NJ, who planted sunflowers in her garden with her son.



Here is another funny picture to show how things are from a different dimension here. See our car and trailer compared to our neighbor in the parking lot, hehehe.



We came across Theodore Roosevelt National Park in ND and saw a very beautiful Canyon formation named "Painted Canyon". It was a very nice surprise. We stopped at the Scenic View rest stop and took a few pictures. The Greys enjoyed the break and, as usual, they cause a commotion wherever we stop. :-)



Are we there yet? No, baby, two more nights and three more days.




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like this one: photos with comments.

The landscape must be spectacular.

Ron

Unknown said...

Jos & Ale
You probably think I would not write...
It is good to see that after long miles you still keep the good mood!
Jos, I miss some pictures, specially those ones you mentioned to Flavio. I am sure you took the pics and Alexandra deleted them...
Also, the dogs seem bored while Alexandra drives slowly. Maybe you just leave them running after the car as an exercise..

Hey Chef...what was the best cuisine along the road??

Cheers!

Anselmo

Chef Alex said...

The best cuisine along the reoad was in Wisconsin. Local cheese, bread and wine. hmmmm, it does not get much better than that. Apart from that break, everything was pretty much the "Big M". Safe and predictable.