"In this glare of brilliant emptiness, I this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolation, all things recede to distances out of reach, reflecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert."
- EDWARD ABBEY
Monument Valley, 此行很期待的一个地点儿。据说这是美西南被拍最多的地点,地界儿不大,那几块石头的确很独特,唯美。就是里面路开起来太费劲儿了,要是里面路修好一些就好了。
顶着烈日,这样几乎寸草不生的地方,想象不出来早期的牛仔们怎么生存下来的,那些在这里生活了世世代代的印地安人怎么活下来的。水源,食物来源都是个巨大的考验 ... 更多
has infinite variety, and no part is ever duplicated. It's colors,though many and complex at any instant change with the ascending and declining sun; lights and shadows appear and vanish with the passing clouds, and the changing seasons mark their passage in changing colors."
- JOHN WESLEY POWELL
定行程的时候,朋友说她上次遗憾大峡谷待的时间太短,于是我安排了两个整天,住三晚在此间。早已过了要看遍所有风景的追求阶段,也不想行程太过仓促和尽是在路上开车赶路的感觉。八月的大峡谷,都说很热,谷底的温度可以比上面高十摄氏度左右。今天地表温度是三十三度,谷底会高达四十三摄氏度。据说昨天最高是四十四摄氏度 ... 更多