Wells & Biggs

Here is a pic of Adam in Wells, NV. We also passed through Biggs, OR, but it was too dark and the shoulder was too narrow to get a picture of that. Just goes to show you that if you travel over 4,000 miles, you're bound to run into a town with your name.

Late lunch in Boise at Flatbread Community Oven

Bonneville Salt Flats

DAM(N)!

Loren and I took a tour of the Hoover Dam. Pretty amazing!

Egg-cellent

If you are ever in Vegas, The Egg and I is a great breakfast place.  Their eggs benedict is straight awesome.

Vegas, Baby, Vegas

Got here today around 2 PM and hit the pool all but immediately. Hello there, giant pina colada.  In other news, the fountains at the Bellagio are AMAZING!

Flagstaff Rocks!

Loren and I really liked Flagstaff.  Hiking the Grand canyon was awesome, but the town itself was neat too.  For example, I got pulled over this morning for creeping through a stop sign.  Not only did the cop let me off with a warning but he also recommended a great breakfast place: Mike and Rhonda's. (Incidentally, my friend Jacob Mongomery's parents are named Mike and Rhonda.  Coincidence?) In honor of Officer Campbell, I post the preceding pic of breakfast.

The Grand Canyon

I've been twice before, and this place just gets more amazing.  This was Dad's and Loren's first visit to the Grand Canyon.  We hiked to the first rest house on the Bright Angel trail (about 3 miles total down and back, 1500 ft. vertical each way).  It made us want to go back and hike more.  Also, I can't help but post a bunch of pictures, but they really can't do it justice.

Pretty New Mexico landscape.

Also, alien matadors rule!

Roswell. The truth is out there!

Okay, so this was entirely kitschy and awesome, as expected, but definitely more persuasive than I thought it would be.

Carlsbad Caverns Left Tunnel Lantern Tour

View from the top of Carlsbad Caverns

Breakfast Burrito at Church St. Grill in Carlsbad

Western Texas

So, the desert in TX was really pretty...for the first few hours.  It got a little monotonous after 700 miles.  We did see a giant wind farm. Yay for sustainable energy!

Brisket

We just had awesome brisket bbq at Cooper's in Junction,TX

The Buckhorn Saloon

The oldest saloon in texas. Mounted above the bar is a texas record 78-point buck.

Remember the Alamo!

Meet Mo, the newest addition to the Biggs-Wells family, from the Alamo.

Darby Takes a Dive

When we got back from dinner, Loren and I decided to take Darbs (aka Darblizzle, Bizzle, The Biz, etc.) down to the Riverwalk. It was getting late, so there were fewer people, but there were also MORE DUCKS. Though Darbs has webbed feet, she has a long-standing fear of water. That said, she could not stop following the ducks as they swam down the river. She would jump up when the barrier wall became higher, she would try to jerk me around the potted plants and trees so she could keep the ducks in her sight-line. She kept hugging the wall and trying to figure out how to get to the ducks without getting wet. And then...she made a tragic error in judgement. What she thought to be solid ground just on the other side of the wall was actually a collection of leaves and petals. She put out her front paws thinking she'd hit land and, instead, sank like a stone. She was under for a few full seconds before she came up sputtering and yelling. I was able to get down and grab her front paws and lift her out pretty quickly, despite the fact that we were laughing so hard that it was difficult to do anything else. (Had we been able to predict this, we would have been recording.) She came out unscathed, if considerably unsettled. Though we failed to get action shots, Loren did get a pic of a decidedly peeved Bizzle in the (quite necessary) bath afterwards.

Boudro's on the Riverwalk

This empty plate was Texas Steak Frites. Loren ate it before she took a picture (apologies). 

Table side guac!

Riverwalk!

The Drury Plaza in San Antonio

This is a really sweet art deco hotel.  It definitely gets six thumbs up from Biggs, Wells and Wells.