Some Pictures

[Kathianne]

of nature and things I saw along my move to AZ:

Saying goodbye is not easy, some of the 'girls,' the little ones live in a different home, their family teacher also quit. We worked hard to get my older girls to be able to work with her little ones:

[Kathianne]

Going away party above. It was great fun, but too many tears.

Here's my own kids and their others. My daughter-in-law is also now pregnant, due in February. The darling daughter is due at the end of August:



We went to Maggiano's, always a good place for celebrations!

IL topography isn't as interesting as AZ, but there are pretty places:

[Kathianne]

A few more of the old state:

[Kathianne]

So I did the 'road trip' from IL to AZ. Traversed through IL, MO, OK, TX, NM, and finally AZ:

Goodbye, IL. Hello, MO:



Seems MO didn't really grab my attention all that much either, (rather more pics were deleted to make room for new. )



All along the route kept finding locations to 'Historic Route 66..."

OK:



Spent night one in Tulsa:

[Kathianne]

I'm pretty sure this was still OK:



This would be either leaving OK or just entering TX:



There were several hundreds of miles of this really desolate plains from southern OK through a good chunk of TX, but got to say, TX had awesome rest stops:









Of course, the rest stop was followed by:

[Kathianne]

Moving closer to NM:




Closer yet.




Got caught in horrible hail storm in NM mountains. When the hail stopped, I moved it for gas. Took this pic, the damn thing started heading for me again! My car looks like a real bad teen with acne:

[aboutime]

Beautiful stuff Lady.

I often wondered why they didn't call Texas..."Big Sky Country". You can drive forever in Texas, and still be in Texas

Good luck with your move, and travels.

[Kathianne]

Spent the 2nd night in Albuquerque.





Ignore the trucks, look at the looming mountains. I took this when leaving the hotel:



The hotel, you'll notice the flowers if you saw the other pics:





Really getting into NM:

[Kathianne]

I'm a flatlander, born and lived my entire life in IL, only IN could hope to be as flat. Needless to say, my heart was pounding in OK, by NM I was wishing for depends:





It seems I lost my AZ early photos, the following is 'Red Rock' aka as Sedona:



This was taken at the Continental Divide in NM:

[Kathianne]

This is the Northern View from my patio:

[aboutime]

Kathianne. Reminds me of my first CROSS-COUNTRY bus trip from San Diego, to Philadelphia Pa.

I remember being amazed at all the beauty of N.M. and how..at the time, it looked like GOD had a huge dump truck, and dumped Piles of huge boulders, and rocks across all of the dry desert area.

This entire nation is one HUGE Portrait of Amazing Beauty everywhere you happen to look.

Thanks for sharing those with us.

[jimnyc]

Nice pics, Kath, thanks for sharing!!

[Jeff]

Beautiful Kat , thank you for sharing.

I especially like the route 66 pics, I want to take that trip some day, it is on the bucket list.

Good Luck to you Ms. Kat, I will keep you in my prayers.

[Gaffer]

Didn't know you were moving Kat. I take it you had a good position line up. Great pics of your travels. You will be very busy taking in the new scenery for quite a while. Good luck with your new life, whatever it is, and keep us up to date. Maybe you will have more time for posting now.

[hjmick]

Having just spent three years in Albuquerque I can say beyond a doubt, it's a great place to be from...



But I do miss the food...