Friday, Mike, Kristin, Charlie and I went and did a little off roading. I had rented a Jeep Wrangler, which was quite fun to drive. The trip we took ended up crossing a river a number of times, often deep enough that you could put your hand out the window and touch the water. We made it through, however. Here are a few of the pictures I managed to take.
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This is the palm tree outside of my room. It was lit by the large amount
of gaudy red neon on the hotel, and I just had to take a picture of it.
Fun with long exposure night shots.
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This is a picture after one of the river crossings. By this point the
brakes were making an awful grinding noise whenever I tried to use them.
Fortunately we were going slow so it was never an issue.
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Another shot of the rental jeep. When I returned it, there was dead leaves
and mud up the entire front of the grill, and mud and water marks all over
the exterior. But really, what's the point of a clean 4 wheel drive
vehicle?
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The light was starting to fade by the time we did a small side walk up
this canyon. There was an old abandoned mine shaft near here that was
a tad disturbing to look into.
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Tree, desert style. The leaves were more like thorns and even the
branches were green. I'm sure there is some survival advantage to this
but it's been too long since I've taken my biology classes.
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On the way back to town, we stopped to have a picnic overlooking the
Colorado River that feeds into Lake Havasu. The sun was setting, and birds were
swimming on the river. It was quite a pretty setting except for the
massive amounts of traffic on the highway behind us.
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Another shot of the river, and you can even sort of see a bird on it. I
really like the mountains in Arizona. Or hills, whatever you'd call them.
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One last shot of the river before eating the grub!
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Just before we took off, I snapped this picture. It was one of the
first cactii I'd seen. Of course I had this preconception that there
would be these huge cactii everywhere, instead I think I only saw 5 of
them. So here it is, the lone cactus.
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On the way back into town, the sun began to set. I finally radioed to
Michael and told him to pull over, I had to get some pictures of this.
It was one of the most amazing sunsets I've seen, and lasted for quite
some time.
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One more picture of the sunset, and then we headed on to Sara Park, where
the convention was being held. We set off some fireworks but I didn't
get any pictures since it was my first night there, and I was having more
fun observing.
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