Our second FMS trip started in Las Vega, Nevada with both of us flying into Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) on May 17, 2023. Peep arrived first and picked out a beautiful BMW X3 that worked flawlessly across all the different road types we encountered on the adventure.
I feel that future expeditions will need some type of tracking device to save the routes, backroads and places we stopped right off the pavement. The next seven days were packed with nothing but exploring and photography, with a little bit of dreaming mixed in for good measure. We both would love being full time travel warriors discovering the hidden and forgotten treasures of this great landscape called home.
We hit the ground running to get out of Las Vegas after fueling up at our favorite sandwich shop, Jimmy John’s. I believe we headed north but can’t recall exactly because we were caught up in conversation and during these trips, there is no wrong direction.
While the routes we choose were not entirely random, we both agreed that any sway of feeling or pull of curiosity was completely valid or no turn was a wrong turn. The common thread of this trip, and others in the future, would be focused on enjoying our limited time together and celebrating whatever discoveries were right around the next turn. In between those twisted curves, we both wanted to visit Zion National Park, Bonneville Salt Flats and maybe a quick dash along Route 66 in Flagstaff, Arizona. It’s crazy to think, we choose to stay away from the popular tourist attractions including Grand Canyon National Park, but we did manage to clip it heading south on US 89A.
One of the more important lessons unearthed after getting home, we didn’t discuss the places we missed… because we didn’t miss them because no turn was a wrong turn and no direction was the incorrect way. Well, unless the sun had set and we were rushing back to a good hotel in the few pockets of civilization. In fact, the majority of our time was spend in Nevada and Utah with three of those nights near St. George, Utah, that worked great as a basecamp. You would be surprised the amazing places reached from here in a day’s drive. We did manage to work our way in and out of Arizona along the way.
We are not going to bored you with a turn by turn guide of this adventure, but instead we want to share our images of the places off the main roads that grabbed our attention, peaked our interest and enticed our hearts. We were all inclusive on the captures, from the beautiful sunset to the automotive rusty relics and discarded towns to amazing geographical oddities of the area.
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If you have made it this far down the post, here is a little bonus. We are designing a book of our favorite images from this trip that will be available to order by the first week of November 2023, just in time for Bedford Camera & Video’s large conference PhotoCon. I hope you can attend and meet both of us in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.