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Meeting up w a friend in Flagstaff, AZ: we rented a car and visited the high desert of the Navajo & Hopi Nations.

The various colors, the sculpturalness of the rock formations are breathtaking! We slept overnight in sleeping bags in Monument Valley. We woke up at 3AM w when the moon had set, and the Milky Way spanned, and glittered above us!

The Grand Canyon after 3PM when the sun's angle brought out the warm, glowing colors.
This, and above was all was part of a 2 week vacation by off & on bus riding that I saved up for.

Resting in a hamock between 2 palm trees just east of San Juan looking at the ocean. While not clear bc of the waves churning up the sands; the colors!

Bright teal, turquoise water close by, with a brighter green in the interior arc of the waves. Colors I wanted to see, since seeing photos of tropical waters in my ?20s.
Even further out into the ocean was a vivid medium dark blue! Not like the duller blue up here in NYC down by Brooklyn. This was a gift vacation.

A cousin took me up by motocyle into The Rockies west of Denver. We stopped at Echo Lake (10,000 ft +). When we looked north, north east- blued by distance, and snow capped was part of the mountain range of The Continental Divide. Being a bit of a geography buff, wow!
My 2nd Big saved up for vacation.

My other gifted vacation was to Switzerland... we flew right past the misty Alps heading into Geneva.
But I was more excited to see them from a distance of about 60-ish miles from the little picturesque village near the French border about 1 1/2 hours north of Geneva where my relatives lived.

Magical times! ✨️🥰✨️