El Paso, TX to Holbrook, AZ
10/9/2023
A large rocky outcropping 20 miles north of the Mexican border, south of Deming, NM.
On NM-11 - 16 miles north of the Mexican border.
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Second stop - City of Rocks SP, NM
A unique outcropping of rounded rocks with Mimbres Peak in the distance.
• On NM-61, just off of US-180, north of I-10.
• I was actually very disappointed with this park, as it is a wonderful setting of huge rocks all clustered together - and instead of protecting the magnificence of their beauty, they put camping spots pretty much everywhere, making it so that it was next to impossible to get a photo of the rocks without a campsite in it. they might as well have sprayed graffiti all over the rocks.
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• 5 miles east of US-180, at the town of Glenwood.
• The storms were approaching. First time I've flown in bad weather. I was taking a 360 pic when I heard the thunder. It started raining so I landed the drone ASAP.
• We got some hail while we were in the car eating our lunch, and the last video shows what we had to drive through to get out of the park.
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Fourth stop - Clouds in Central Arizona
I guess you can't really call it a "stop" if you were driving while you were taking the pics!!!!
• Between Glenwood and the Petrified Forest National Park on US-180.
• I think by this point we were in Arizona.
• We had weathered the worst of the storms but still had some amazing skies on the way to the park.
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Fifth stop - Petrified Forest/Painted Desert
We entered the park at the southern entrance on US-180 and worked our way north toward I-40.
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Sixth stop - Petrified Forest/Painted Desert @ Sunset
Sunset where a 1932 Studebaker rests on a stretch of the former Hwy-66 along I-40.
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