Go West young man!

The Fall colors over Minneapolis

Great Sand Dunes National Monument

Portion of the Grand Canyon

The Moon!

The only grass in Arizona

We flew out West to Phoenix, Arizona.  I love flying out West.  It is such a different part of the United States.  The changes are dramatic the further you fly West.  The start of the trip flew over Minneapolis and as you can see the fall colors are beautiful.  As we flew over Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico we flew over this unusual site.  It is the Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Colorado.  It looks like a giant sand box shaped like the United States.  It is located at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Range and some of the dunes are over 700 feet tall.  This is in the Southern portion of Colorado.  The further West we travel the more desolate and terrain becomes.  We fly over the Southern portion of the Grand Canyon.  It is over 800 feet deep cut into the earth.  As we get closer to Phoenix we fly over the Moon?  No this is actually called Monument Valley.  They filmed many mars and moon movies here as well as many westerns.  It is hard to believe it is real.  An approach into Phoenix we fly over the only green thing you see.  It is a golf course.  It really stands out with everything looking so dead.  Well back to Earth soon.  See ya.