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Autumn trip through the Smokies

We took yet another interlude before the final portion of our bike trip (biking from Sylva to Charleston to finish the official "cross-country" trip). Among the activities during the break was a one-night backpacking trip in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We hiked from Abrams Creek campground to Gregory Bald, met the Appalachian Trail at Doe Knob, and continued along the AT to Fontana Dam, visiting the Shuckstack Fire Tower along the way.

Gregory Bald

Gregory Bald

Bumblebee climbing deep inside gentians

Salamander

Climbing up Shuckstack

View from Shuckstack Fire Tower

Fontana Dam, once we reached the trailhead and finished retrieving the car parked at Abrams Creek

Back in western North Carolina, biking from Asheville to Sylva after dropping off our rental car, and seeing some good Halloween decorations in ‎⁨Waynesville⁩, NC

A few days in El Paso, Texas

San Jacinto Plaza, downtown. Long ago, this park had a pool with real alligators.

Star in the Franklin Mountains above town

Taking a walk in the southernmost portion of the Franklin Mountains

Looking toward Juarez from the Franklin Mountains

Looking towards Fort Bliss

Ocotillo in bloom

Looking back at the Franklin Mountains from the University of Texas at El Paso

Desert garden at UT El Paso

Cabeza de Vaca frieze at a UT El Paso museum

The Lhakhang, a Bhutanese temple at the UT El Paso campus. The whole campus is built in a loosely Bhutanese style, but this building was actually created by Bhutanese craftspeople for a Smithsonian Folklife Festival and then gifted to UTEP.

The Art Deco Kress building downtown

Alamogordo, NM, seen from a campsite we found in the foothills just outside of town

Pistachios

Reaching Carrizozo, where we'd finally intersect our path from January – March

Spring-fed pond in Estancia, NM

Spiny ridge along NM 41 near Stanley

Leaving Santa Fe on the Santa Fe Rail Trail

New Mexico Statehouse, Santa Fe

New Mexico's statehouse is shaped like a Zia Sun Symbol (the symbol on New Mexico's flag). It has four entrances of roughly equal prominence.

I think a photo taken from here with a fisheye lens would capture the shape of the building well, but my phone died before I got that shot.

Crossing the Rio Grande, Española, NM

Española, NM