to the Palo Duro Canyon, Texas

[Daniel Kalal]

Highway 136 between Guymon, OK and Borger, TX is not ever going to be busy.

Panhandle, Texas (home of the Panthers)

The Palo Duro Canyon is such an unexpected thing to come across (at the bottom of the canyon is the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River). I've always liked this area. For several miles, the highway follows this spine as it drops to the bottom.

The Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River.

Briscoe County, Texas.

Dropping down into Quitaque, Texas.

An interesting low-tech approach to harnessing the wind.

Hardeman County, Texas.

Needless to say, there is very little traffic on this farm-to-market Texas road.

Crossing the Red River into Oklahoma (that's Texas on the right, Oklahoma on the left).

The Elm Fork of the Red River.

Hammon, Oklahoma.

Harper County, Oklahoma.

Coldwater, Kansas

Barber County, Kansas on a cold and windy Sunday morning.

 

[SgtCrump]

Hey Daniel,

As always, great pics.
I camped at Palo Duro once, and found a great museum in a nearby town. I think it was called Coalville, or something similar. It was an oilfield museum, and even had a bunch of dinosaur bones from that area.

 

[RJVB]

What's 'cold' for you, Daniel? It doesn't look cold in those pics ... the light is completely different than the one we get here!

(not sure if HDR photos are the best for capturing Vermeer-style light!)

 

[Daniel Kalal]

RJVB wrote:

What's 'cold' for you, Daniel? It doesn't look cold in those pics ...

It was generally in the 30s for the days I was riding, although at times it would climb to the mid-forties. I won't argue that people haven't ridden when it's colder, but cold is cold...

 

[RJVB]

Indeed!

 

[motoguzziman]

Hi & Dunno about Vermeer, but brill piccys,from both of you!

 

[cdguzzi]

Daniel,

I always enjoy your photos, plan to be doing the same out here in New Mexico once I get my loop fettled. If I went out today I could take snow photos. Maybe see you out there somewhere.

That wind generator actually makes more sense to me than the big props we typically see in wind farms, since it can easlly be spun from all directions without having to be reoriented. IIRC there's a company in New Zealand that makes those vertical generators, but they haven't caught on here.

RJVB , that lovely light reminds me of the light in the Northeast US where I grew up.

 

[GTM®]

Fun venture Daniel, thanks as always for your post here.

cd, you doing the Outlaw Ride with the group end of next month? Details on the Southwest Forum, at the top.

 

[Mike.C]

The Minister recons that the light here in Oz is different between sunny sub tropical / tropical Queensland (where we live) and the southern state of Victoria which is defferent again from Tasmania even further south, for my part I'm happy that the light comes and goes every 24 hours :unsure: , but indeed we do have a frequently played song on local radio here entitled "Good Light in Broome" which is in the far north west of the country.

It took me a long time to see the difference in the quality of light from place to place, but after several years I finally saw it, and it is one of those interesting features of pics form other parts of the world that go to make up the fascination of motocycle travel, as always great pics Daniel.

The Red river looks interesting - is it a seasonal river? it looks low at the time of your trip in comparison to the size of the river bed.

Cold can be deceptive, here in Oz the view can be of parched spinifex desert, but below freezing at night.