Oct 2007

This was early morning at my first camp site in southern Mississippi.

There are wonderful Gone With The Wind (I know, wrong state) plantation houses everywhere in this part of the south, this one the only octagonal one, apparently.

Late afternoon along the Mississippi river.

Some colourful New Orleans architecture.

The houses of the French Quarter (above), and ones like this one below in the nearby Garden District, pretty much escaped Katrina.

Within a few miles of the city it starts to get swampy.

Santa Fe is the oldest and highest state capital. It is also one of the brownest.

It is well known for the art that is everywhere you look.

Sign at a downtown florist - Americans seem to have more fun selling things than we do in the UK.

It was good to get out into the country, after the lights of Las Vegas and San Francisco. This is a very small part of the Grand Canyon's west rim. At its widest you could fit Guernsey in three times (I researched that myself)

I also headed off to Canyon de Chelly, towards the New Mexico border, where native Americans used to live in the houses at the base of this cliff.

Some blue sky and a piece of the same canyon.