Wednesday, May 18, 2011

abc wednesday —R is for "Rocky Mountains"

Flew across the country a couple of times lately and
I was amazed at just how much of it is basically
uninhabited. Crossing the Rockies, all I could think
about was pioneers trying to get over these mountains in
covered wagons. Now they could have used GPS!

[To see more posts inspired by the letter R, go here.]

9 comments:

  1. What a view! Amazing awesome photo Alexa!

    PS
    can you imagine the havoc us humans would wreak on this country if we were in every nook & cranny? I shudder at the thought.

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  2. Like Lily, I think it is an amazing picture!
    As for the pioneers, when traveling in the West, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, the same question came regularly to my mind : how did they do ? and also, why did some stop at one place and not the other ?

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  3. Love crossing the Rockies by plane. (By car, not so much...)
    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  4. Great shot. The Rocky Mountains are so beautifully majestic from below or above!

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  5. You're right! Such a wall for people in covered wagons. When you think that even the Appalachian have been an impassable barrier until the Cumberland Gap was discovered...
    Beautiful Pic. I love to see the world by the window when I'm in a plane. When coming to the USA I love to be on the right of the plane, with my young son, in order to admire with him Iceland, Greenland, and then the Labrador.

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  6. And the snow is still this deep. I am high in those Colorado Rockies. Just arrived to spend the summer. Beautiful shot!

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