This horse drawn carriage is rattling down W 100 N just outside Miller Cemetary in LeGrange, Indiana.
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I-65 crosses the Ohio River in Lousiville, Kentucky over to Indiana on the other side. See it on a map.
The Ohio River is, by volume, the largest tributary to the Mississippi River.
Louisville was founded at the only major natural navigational barrier on the river, the Falls of the Ohio. The Falls were a series of rapids where the river dropped 26 feet (7.9 m) in a stretch of about 2 miles (3.2 km). In this area, the river flowed over hard, fossil-rich beds of limestone. The first locks on the river were built in 1825 at Louisville to circumnavigate the falls. Today it is the site ofMcAlpine Locks and Dam.
This is where these pictures were taken
Moki Dugway
At the Natural Bridges National Monument Visitor Center, there is a brief description of the Moki Dugway. Here is the text:
“MOKEE (MOKI, MOQUI) DUGWAY
SAN JUAN COUNTY, UT.
The Mokee Dugway is located on Utah Route 261 just north of Mexican Hat, UT. It was constructed in 1958 by Texas Zinc, a mining company, to transport uranium ore from the “Happy Jack” mine in Fry Canyon, UT. to the processing mill in Mexican Hat. The three miles of unpaved, but well graded, switchbacks descend 1100 feet from the top of Cedar Mesa (on which you are now standing). The State of Utah recommends that only vehicles less than 28 feet in length and 10,000 pounds in weight attempt to negotiate this steep (10% grade), narrow and winding road.
The term “mokee” is derived from the Spanish word moqui, which was a general term used by the 18th century Spanish explorers and settlers in this region to describe the Pueblo Indians they encountered and the vanished culture which had left behind the numerous ruins they discovered during their travels. This term continued to be used by the Anglo pioneers, who moved into southern Utah during the 1800’s, and their descendants.
Today the standard term used to describe these prehistoric Native Americans, who lived in this region more than 1000 years ago, is “ancestral Puebloans”. It is based on present day Puebloan tribes’ and archaeologists’ beliefs that these people were the ancestors of the today’s Hopi, Zuni, Acoma and Rio Grande region cultures. You may also see them commonly referred to as the “Anasazi”, a Navajo word meaning “enemy ancestors”.
Some where along the drive in some town near the spanish-french border.
HIGHLIGHTS
4yrs ago today I drove from Bordeaux France to Madrid Spain. Along the way we made a couple stops, most pominently in Burgos Spain.
Enjoy the second day of pictures and keep on looking forward to 80 more… some not so plentiful as this (but some more)
We drove a lot that day but in the end we made it to Madrid from Barcelona.
But the highlight was just before sunset we spend the evening checking out BURGOS, Spain.
Lots of people and lots of stone.
ON THE WAY OUT (of france)
