Picto Diary - 19 to 24 October 2024 - East to Denton, TX by Sprinter

Above: Above: Drums and Mynduveroan. Park City, UT. 19 October 2024. Drums home for the weekend. Image by FeeBee, while we're in Ivins.

Above: Shiprock, NM. 21 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.
NM Four Corners marker. On the Navajo Reservation.
Image captured from Sprinter pre-twilight by TIMDT as we move eastbound on US 64.
Similar natural monuments exist in the other three corners. Utah: Blue Mountains. Colorado: Mesa Verde. Arizona: Pastora Peak. I love the symmetry of this area. In past years I've motorcycled extensively throughout the four corners area.

Above: KOA Campground, Tucumcari, NM. 22 October 2024. Out and about in the Sprinter.

Above: KOA Campground. Tucumcari, NM. 23 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.
Sunrise.

Above: I-40 EB out of Tucumcari, NM. 23 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.

Above: Tucumcari, NM. 23 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.

Above: Russel's Route 66 Diner and Museum, NM I-40. 23 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.

Above: Texas Roadhouse, Denton, TX. 23 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.

Summer 2020, peak Covid period, also on a Sprinter trip, we stopped for lunch at a Texas Roadhouse in Amarillo, TX. The restaurant was packed. Hours later in Albuquerque, NM, all restaurants were closed. We had to order a brown bag dinner delivered to our room at our motel. The vivid contrast between red state freedom of Amarillo and Albuquerque blue state tyranny in treating the mostly manufactured Covid scare was stark. It is worrisome that large numbers of blue state Americans willfully submit to overreaching authority in the manner of the blue state response to Covid.

Above: Lunch at Graffiti Pasta, Denton, TX. 24 October 2024.
Getting the North Texas University (NTU) lowdown from Drums.
Drums seems happy as a commercial music major at North Texas University (NTU). He's in three bands, takes weekly drum lessons from the One O'Clock band drummer (by reputation, the best college jazz band drummer in the nation), and has as a good friend an opera singing freshman from Oregon.

Above: Denton, TX. 24 October 2024
Out and about in the Sprinter.
Denton Town Square area decked out for Halloween.

Above: Denton Square. 24 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.

Above: Hannah's Off the Square Restaurant. Denton, TX. 24 October 2024.
Out and about in the Sprinter.
TIMDT, Andrew, Freddie and Drums.

Addendum:

I feel like I should be paying tuition for this.
Peterbilt, Bountiful, UT

Bishop,
If Kamala wins, should I leave the country? I think so.
Say hi to Margaret
Golf, Park City, UT