U.S. Highway 550

We have been helping our two sons drive a couple of cars out west. Rolf will be teaching third graders in Shiprock in a school on the Navajo Reservation, through the Teach for America program. While he did not need a car in New York last year, while teaching there, rural New Mexico is quite different, so we are passing on our much loved and much driven 1998 Subaru, which Rolf seemed quite pleased to have show up at his door.

On the day before yesterday, we drove from Albuquerque, NM to Shiprock, NM on U.S. Highway 550, which you can see in the clip of Google maps here.


It is one of the more scenic highways we have driven in a long time. Sandy had driven it before once with Chris, going the other way from Utah to Texas. (Seems like we are criss-crossing this part of the world a lot. Good thing we like scenery and driving.)

The scenery was mostly classic red rock cliffs and bluffs, much like southern Utah. Here you can see two examples.

The first in from my brand new iPhone, which has a pretty good camera in it. So the photo here is not bad.



The second shot, which is from an Internet site, shows a nice view of some of the red rock sliffs.