And the road, not traveled
There are a few options if, for some reason, you want to travel between Branson, Colorado, and Kenton, Oklahoma. You can take regular, paved roads. One choice would take you north through Kim, Colorado; that’s about 100 miles, and Google thinks it’ll take a couple of hours to drive it. You could also take a wide swing to the south, through Folsom, New Mexico and the Santa Rita National Grasslands before heading back to the north to Kenton. That way’s also about 100 miles, with the same travel time.
Then there’s this route, where as soon as you clear Tollgate Canyon on the Colorado-New Mexico line, a left turn will put you on a route 456. It’s 62 miles to Kenton, with a Google-estimated travel time of 2 hours. Yep. That’s the way to get to Kenton.
Union County, New Mexico
photographed 9.5.2016
Posted on February 5, 2017, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, back roads, black and white photography, Branson Colorado, Kenton Oklahoma, melinda green harvey, monochrome, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, scenic, slow travel, unpaved road. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
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And the sat nav threw up its hands in despair…
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One of these days, I fully expect to program in a destination and have it tell me, “Nope. You’re on your on, sister. You ignored my advice one too many times!”
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I expect that too, actually… I think a great feature for those things would be an “Start navigation aid after…” option.
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Like “Start navigation aid after I am completely and irrevocably lost”?
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That seems like a good option, actually
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Like if it noticed you’d passed the same dead tree about 7 times it could automatically take over! But it would also roll its eyes and make fun of you behind your back.
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That seems fair, actually… though with your penchant for U-turns, it would be unjustly making fun of you. 🙂
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That’s a good point. Maybe it should be 12 times past the dead tree.
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Whatever the threshold… I believe you can reach it. I have faith in you
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Thanks. That means a lot.
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And why not!
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Exactly.
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Looks like you have to go quite a way, in either direction, before you hit that stretch of dirt road in the middle. Lulled into thinking its a good road. Did you press ahead to the end?
I bet there were some other great shots to be had along there, apart from this one. Do we get to see them?
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We’d been on this road about 15 years ago – our friend Darryl showed it to us – so we were prepared for the lack of pavement. And we did make it to the end, to pavement.
Here’s a shot from the same road: https://melindagreenharvey.com/2016/11/12/lost-in-timelessness/ It’s the only other one I’ve posted so far.
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I remember that other one, it’s a nice shot too. I look forward to more.
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I don’t there are any more, really, that are interesting. It was the end of the day, at the end of the trip, and I was getting tired. Plus my Patient Spouse (trying to fix my earlier error) was weary of watching me take a million photos.
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