We arrived at Donner Summit at 2 AM and there was now snow at all...
In the morning everything was covered in almost a foot of snow
The steps to Andrei's cabin
View from the window
Welcome to Nevada
Shore of lake Tahoe
Turquoise Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe from the North East
Darker shades of blue- sometimes purple
Down hill on the desert side of the sierras
Heyyall NEvada plates
Pony Express Station
Colorful Lichen
Climbing some desert rocks
Alligator head rock
Spelunking
The mouth of the cave
Julia flying in the wind next to a huge traveling sand dune
Nevada SR 305
The US-50 in Nevada
Julia silhouette
Sunset in the desert
Prius at sunset
Written on a public men's bathroom wall at an I-80 rest area... next to some other nastiness: "Senator Craig was here"
Nevada lights
Our KOA cabin in West Wendover
Welcome to Utah
Salt flats
Salt Flats
Mormon temple- (too sacred for laymen to enter)
Mormon gardens
Mormon SuperKitsch: Adam & Eve
Mormon tabernacle
Utah on the way to the rockies
Dinosaur on the Colorado-Utah border
Welcome to Colorful Colorado (Colorado means color-red)
Fall colors
Near Steamboat Spring, CO off US 40
near Dinosaur, Colorado
Granby Lake, CO
Steamboat Springs, CO
Continental Divide, Rocky Mountain National Park
He's ready for winter
Instead of looking at the scenery....
Descending from the rockies
Wyoming... too dark tho :(
Mitchell, NE City Hall
Sugar factory or something near our Hotel in Scott's Bluff
Scott's Bluff National Monument
Not a very exciting picture... but just what you'd expect from Nebraska... endless rows of flat fields
Worst part of the trip: rained out of Mount Rushmore & Black Mountains
Thousands of miles of corn
Welcome to Iowa on US-20
Corn Corn Corn for two days straight nothing but corn
I love this thing. Not only directions- we also used it to find food and lodging.
Sears Tower at night
Where we stayed in Chicago... right on Lake Michigan
Half the time I was waiting while she.....
And the other half of the time waiting for this....
Stand among giants
On the GPS... (see next pic)
and from the Sears tower
Instead of a Subway Chicago has elevated rail
Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886, The Art Institute of Chicago. It had a really cool border of stiples
And then I entered the painting!
Beautiful corporate-sponsored art
National Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio
in an F-16
The final stretch.....
