GregG wrote:Could be Monument Valley, Utah.
GregG wrote:Wherever this is, I have not been there and do not recognise the mountains in the background, as distinctive as they are. Just looking at the vegetation in the foreground I can see opuntia and yucca and can take some inference from that, so I reckon that narrows it down to about seven states! For my next wild stab in the dark I'm saying somewhere in Texas.
That bit actually did happenGregG wrote:buzzards patiently circling overhead........
Yes it is in ArizonaGregG wrote:...... so you must have been in Arizona. But where exactly .....
Not the painted desert Greg, Google maps estimates that's about a 300 km/3 hour drive from here, much shorter as the crow flies.GregG wrote:Another half-informed guess: the painted desert.
johnw wrote:The majority of the many visitors to this area would never see this view. I descended about 900 metres elevation from the distant escarpment and the return hike was around 20 kms.
ribuck wrote:I wonder if it's the Parashant National Monument in northwest Arizona.
ribuck wrote:I've changed my mind. Perhaps it's Cottonwood Cove in the Coyote Buttes area of Vermilion Rocks.
That would explain why all the public photos of Cottonwood Cove are taken from the top looking down. You must have been keen!
GregG wrote:Just thinking back over previous posts of yours John, did you happen travel to this general area by train?
eggs wrote:Looks like Grand Canyon from a shelf below the rim. Probably on Bright Angel Trail?
johnw wrote:GregG wrote:John, did you happen travel to this general area by train?
I arrived at the Grand Canyon by bus from Las Vegas
ribuck wrote:johnw wrote:GregG wrote:John, did you happen travel to this general area by train?
I arrived at the Grand Canyon by bus from Las Vegas
I travelled from Los Angeles to Grand Canyon Junction by train (with a short bus connection to the canyon rim), and what a train journey it was! A double-deck train with a very spacious sleeping compartment, at a reasonable price, and great food in a sociable dining car (they sit you with random other travellers rather than at a table of your own).
Anyway, johnw, is your photo the Kilauea lava flow on Hawaii?
johnw wrote: the food was superb and included in the fare, except wine, which we had to pay for (not at breakfast of course )
GregG wrote:johnw wrote: the food was superb and included in the fare, except wine, which we had to pay for (not at breakfast of course )
Pleasing to hear that the fare was includes in the fare and that you didn't have to pay for wine at breakfast, hope you downed a few bottles then.
( sorry, its a very slow day here!).
johnw wrote:we've done a couple of enjoyable sleeper train trips in North America, although I wouldn't call the compartments spacious.
johnw wrote:Back to the photo. Yes, I'm walking across the floor of the Kilauea Iki crater.
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