The Loneliest Road

The road materializes as you drive on it.

It’s been a long couple of weeks for the Gallivanting Explorer. I just got back from the Four Corners area of Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, where I explored Anasazi cliff dwellings on the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Reservation, went rafting through the Navajo Reservation, on the San Juan River – all under the guidance of archaeologists, who provided more information than I could ever hope to retain. It was great!

Not so great. Driving the long road from San Francisco to Cortez, Colorado and back. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was driving The Loneliest Road in America….

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On the way to Cortez – Day One

Above the hill town of Austin, Nevada – and a whole lot of nothing on the other side.

It’s been a long day of driving. But it was exciting. I left San Francisco across the Bay Bridge, took 80 North to Sacramento and headed east on 50. Continue reading “On the way to Cortez – Day One” »