Fotoeins Fotografie

location bifurcation, place vs. home

Posts tagged ‘road trip USA’

I-25, El Camino Real, US-66, Rosario, Budaghers, New Mexico, USA, fotoeins.com

US Southwest drive: road trip numbers & memories (2018)

Above/featured: NM I-25 southbound, between Rosario and Budaghers – 5 Oct 2018 (X70).

In October 2018, we embarked on a modest 2-week driving trip through parts of New Mexico and Arizona. We began in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, drove west towards Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon, south to Tucson, and finally, northeast on the return to Santa Fe. With our first-time attendance at the Balloon Fiesta and first-time visit to the Grand Canyon accomplished, we’d like to examine further the Grand Staircase geographical formation beyond the Utah-Arizona border region and the historical remnants from old highway US route 66.

( Click here for more )

Tulips alight, Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (2017)

I was skeptical of a visit to tulip gardens.

“They’re just flowers after all.”

When I lived in Heidelberg, Germany, my friends wanted to travel to the Netherlands before their first-born kicked into full swing. They wanted to visit Keukenhof and Amsterdam. I was excited about Amsterdam; I was unsure about Keukenhof. But one step inside the tulip gardens in Keukenhof was enough to turn my head, and my opinion about tulip fields spun completely around.

That was 2002, and this is 2017. Travelling from the Canadian southwest, I’m on highway I-5 into western Washington State to see some tulips.

During the annual tulip festival in April, the Skagit river valley is populated by fields of daffodils and tulips, in eye-popping yellows, reds, oranges, purples, and whites. The overcast skies with diffuse grey light provides ideal light conditions with no strong shadows. The explosion of colours seem to blend into an extensive painting of the fields.

( Click here for images and more )