More on location - it is quite close to Four Corners, that place where
you could be in 4 states at once if you so desired Colorado, New
MExico, Arizona, Utah. scenicly, four corners is a bust, btw. Just
one of those places you want to experience anyway...
You can see Shiprock in the distance from Farview lodge at Mesa Verde
but at quite a distance. And Shiprock the town is right on what used to
be numbered "666" and called the devil's highway. Before you visited
there, Brian, they changed the number due to it's reputation for
the number of fatal crashes along it. I'm not sure when they did that,
but when I drove through the area in 2001 the number changed really
messed me up because I was quite familiar with it as 666.
Never got a decent shot of Shiprock, myself... but I knew it from old
HOllywood movies and had longed to see it.
ann
On 12/17/2014 03:13, Brian Walters wrote:
Thanks Bruce, Jack, Alan, Ann, Dan & Bob. Comments much appreciated.
Bob - Shiprock (the rock) is near Shiprock (the town) in north-west New
Mexico, about 50 km from Farmington. It has of great religious
significance to the Navajo people.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
Quoting Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>:
Very nice Brian. Where in New Mexico?
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Brian Walters
<[email protected]> wrote:
'morning all,
Being fans of Tony Hillerman's novels, my wife and I had Shiprock on our
'must visit' list during our USA trip.
We, together with our two sons, had planned to arrive in the late
afternoon,
scout around for a good photographic location and then sit back with
a glass
of New Mexico red and wait for the sunset. As it happened, getting
out of
Farmington (where we were staying) took an eternity so we arrived
much later
than we had hoped. Beggars couldn't be choosers, so this was the
best we
could do.
Disclosure: I got rid of some wires crossing in front of the rock, my
justification being that had I climbed a fence and moved a bit
closer, the
wires wouldn't have been visible anyway...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP2060-K5-1peso_HDR.html
http://tinyurl.com/kwpn7n4
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