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Gulliver's Travels - The Southwest Part III

9/19/2021

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The Southwest

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Part III   Arizona and New Mexico​

After a long delay (due to traveling, working on gardening, and our reunion), here is the next section of the trip I took in January 2021 to the Southwest.  It includes visits to Coyote Buttes in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, Saguaro National Park in Arizona, Chiricahua National Monument in New Mexico and Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.  All stun one's visual senses.  I like being stunned.
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This photo and the next four are from Coyote Buttes in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.

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There are a lot of weird shapes here (NOT referring to the human kind).
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These two photos were taken in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.

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This photo and the next three are from Saguaro National Park in Arizona

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This photo and the next two were taken in Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona.

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The entrance to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, home to 100 separate caves
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This photo and the next three are from The Big Room, 4,000 feet long, 625 feet wide, and 255 feet high.
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Epilogue

   I might be done chronicling this trip--but I am not done with the Southwest.  I am going back in November to try to "win the lottery" for "The Wave," an incredible sandstone formation an acre in size.  Only 40 people per day are allowed in.  I failed twice before to get in, but "Try, try, again" is my motto.  If I don't get in, of course, I will try again.  Later in that trip I will tour eastern Arizona, which I have been hoping to get to for over 20 years.

   As this Gulliver's Travels comes out, I will be in eastern Canada, going as far as Newfoundland.  It is a trip I had to cancel last September because of Covid.  I am going now because I had to cancel my planned trip to Europe, as Poland, one of the countries on my itinerary, would not allow me in due to Covid.  Ah, the foibles of travel in the Covid era.
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