I love it when we are routed off the interstate. That's the problems with working for a company that tells what roads you have to travel on. It doesn't allow for any creativity. And it usually means the Interstates. After all, they were built to get you to your destination quickly and two-lane side roads don't meet that criteria.
On Sunday, May 23, we were dispatched from Phoenix, AZ, to Cheyenne, WY, which meant going up US 89/160/163/12, up through northeast Arizona and southeast Utah. We've never been on that piece of road before and so it we were pretty excited. However, that day there were high winds for much of the region. I-40 was shut down east of Flagstaff because of blowing dust. As we headed north we could see the wall of dust and realized that we were headed right for it.
Oh great, we finally get to see a new piece of road and we have to deal with a dust storm!!
Out of the red dust emerges ghostly images of rocky formations.
This was around the Monument Valley area. The winds had to be 20-30 mph, maybe with gusts up to 40-50 mph.
Mexican Hot Rock
This is what the road looked like at one point ahead of us. We then realized that we were getting a fine layer of red dust inside the cab, especially on passenger side where the wind was hitting the hardest.
The further north we went the less of a dust cloud we were in but it was still very windy.
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