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I only went through a small tip of New Mexico so I can’t say I’ve really visited. I WILL go back though. I’ve always thought this state looked interesting..those caverns look cool..

Okay..so I should be writing a negative review but I really had a good time. My friends and I walked over the Rainbow Bridge to get into Canada. It took an hour and we were only going there originally for an hour! They thought I was a criminal at first! So we finally get in and now we must hurry, so rush along the water we do. I wasn’t impressed until I got to the horseshoe falls and looked into the vortex. Even better when you’re wearing pilot eyes sunglasses! Thankfully my friend had a pair!

I drove from New Orleans to just outside of El Paso in one day, so don’t mind me.. I didn’t visit, though I did get an oil change in El Paso! Haha. The terrain was nothing like I’d imagined and the cities I passed seemed clean and compact. I bought a cowboy hat and said “yeehaw” and meant it! Though now I realize there are more cowboys in Montana haha. Oh well, Texas was worth it.

It’s just a college city. I found it rather charming and stopped in at the Empire to have a beer. I enjoyed people watching before heading into MN.

So small!!

You walk up to this little spurting geyser and you wonder “this is old faithful?”. I was fortunate to stick around for only 5 minutes (some people wait for an hour), and then the geyser suddenly shot straight up into the air after a little bit of gurgling. I can imagine I would’ve been disappointed if I’d had to wait for an hour to see it, but it was really cool! A lot of people walked away before it happened, possibly wondering what I had mentioned in the first sentence..

For me this was the highlight of my Utah National Park tour. Arches are pretty cool, and some of the arches here are quite grand!

I lived in San Francisco many years ago and always wanted to visit Alcatraz. It never happened until last month when I went back to visit on vacation. It seems you only really see anything when you’re on vacation! It would probably have been slightly better I had taken a normal tour, but I didn’t want to pay extra so I stuck with the audio tour. It can be interesting, but I’d recommend going when it’s not rainy so that the boat ride will at least be enjoyable if you don’t end up enjoying the rest. Wouldn’t mind seeing what the night tour was all about either..

It was much like I’d imagined it’d be, only you don’t get the whole feeling until you’re actually there. I only spent a few days there checking out Lafayette Cemetery much of the French Quarter and surrounding areas. Stayed near Magazine and definitely experienced some characters..I’ll be back!

I finally made it, but I didn’t stay long. I’d like to go back some day and spend at least a week checking things out, looks like my kind of place. I checked out EMP/Sci-Fi Museum and the outside of the Space Needle. I woke up early when there was no traffic and drove around which was nice.