Saturday, December 17, 2005

I am constantly looking for a perfect CD. I'm not quite obsessing about it but I have given up on trying to put 80 minutes on a CD because when I do I often find two or three songs that I'm always skipping. So short is now good.

Here's one that I'm working on.

Elton John
Feed Me
Street Kids
Tower of Babel
Capt Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Meal Ticket
Hard Luck Story
Someone saved my life tonight

I'm making CD's for my trip in May when I drive from Tucson up to Montana, across the "hi line" (high line. THEY call it hi line) and back down through South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. It'll take me about a week. I will be alone, which is my fave way to travel, and I will have my new 8 megapixel canon with me.

What will I see?

Well once I leave the major highway at Flagstaff, AZ I will drive to Lake Powell to play golf. Then I head through the canyon lands of southern Utah. Then back on major highway (I-15) up through Utah, Idaho, and Montana to a small town called Shelby. That's about one hour from Canada. I hang a right and head east on highway 2 across the state. That's the "hi line".

I'll see a friend in Plentywood, MT. (where Sitting Bull surrendered to the U.S. Army) before heading to Williston, ND to play golf. Then down to a little place in South Dakota called Custer (where Sitting Bull kicked some U.S. Army's ass). Mt Rushmore is there so I'll stop by but don't expect a pic of it because there are way too many.

South thru Wyoming to the major highway at Cheyenne then off onto highway 64 to Taos. I'll do the Santa Fe thing and then whatever I'm in the mood for back to Tucson. Maybe 4 corners maybe not. I might stop anywhere along that route to wait for the sun to be right on something I just HAVE TOO shoot.

Oughta be fun.

Comments:
Flagstaff -- A friend of mine lives there...and I used to live in Scottsdale.

Shelby -- Been there. I love Montana.

Custer -- Been there, too. And my elementary school in Mandan, North Dakota was called "Custer Elementary".

Could you take some pics of the Badlands?
 
I might if I end up there. I wouldn't mind a detour. Depends on the time. And when I'm alone the time don't matter too much.

If you've been to Shelby you can understand my draw to the hi line. People living in empty.

I can't wait

After my father died we were driving back north and there was a wreck on I-17 that forced us to detour thru Oak Creek Canyon. I told the wife that dad did that so I would see a canyon that he fell in love with many years ago.
 
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