Crossing America, Summer 1995 Photo Gallery by Philip Game at pbase.com

Crossing America, Summer 1995

Twenty-plus years after the event, barbarajoy and I set out to digitise the photographs recording our road journeys across America in 1995-1996, during the year she taught elementary school in Pennsylvania. In July, during summer vacation, we drove north from our home base in Allentown, northwest of Philadelphia, to Niagara Falls, then west across the Great Plains as far as Yellowstone National Park, before turning south, winding through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, then returning east.

Six months later we completed a loop out and back from El Paso, Texas, on the US/Mexican border, up into New Mexico then around down through Arizona and its national parks.

The original images were 35mm Fujichrome or Ektachrome transparencies, or standard colour negative stock. Barbara's gallery and this one are the result.

Flags of both nations, Niagara Falls, Canada	What a backdrop!	Twin falls, from the Minolta Tower on the Canadian side
Niagara Falls	Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls	Wedding party, Niagara Falls
Amish buggy in rural Minnesota	Freight barges on the Mississippi near Dubuque	River lock on the Mississippi, Dubuque, Iowa
Picnic above the Missouri River	July 4th frolics in Galena, Illinois	Riding the fire truck on July 4th in Galena, Ill
July 4th frolics in Galena, Illinois	Indiana licence plate ('tag')	Billboard beside the Interstate, South Dakota
Interstate 90 crossing the Great Plains	Free enterprise, South Dakota	Our first campsite, at Badlands National Park
The stark landscape of the Badlands	Longhorn Saloon at Scenic, South Dakota	S. Dakota licence plate depicts Mt Rushmore
Mount Rushmore's presidential heads	Historic hotel at the Wild West mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota	Wyoming license plate
Offerings at the Medicine Wheel, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming	Medicine Wheel in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming, USA	Morning at Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming
Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming	Chief Joseph Pass, Shoshone National Forest, Wyo	Our campsite at Yellowstone - they fill up early
At the geyser fields of Yellowstone	Travertine deposits, Yellowstone NP	Artists Point, Yellowstone National Park
Beware of the Bison! Yellowstone National Park	Travertine deposits at Yellowstone National Park	Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park
Jenny Lake, Grand Teton	Yellowstone Lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming	Meadows of Grand Teton
Wolfe Ranch ruins, Arches National Park, Utah	Delicate Arch, Arches National Park	Utah plates depict the Delicate Arch
The Three Gossips, Arches NP	The Great Wall, Arches National Park, Utah	Canyonlands National Park
Above the Colorado River, northern Utah	Picnic beside the Colorado River, northeast Utah, Summer 1995	Flaming Gorge National Rec. Area, Wyoming/Utah
Ute Indian Trading Post at Vernal, Utah	The Coke Ovens, Colorado National Monument	Cliffs of the Colorado National Monument
Weathered log, Dinosaur Nat. Monument	Cave art at Dinosaur Nat. Monument, New Mexico	Steamboat Rock, Dinosaur Nat. Monument
Black Canyon of the Gunnison Nat. Monument	Pinyon pine trunks, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado	Canyonlands National Park
Cliff Palace of the Anasazi at Mesa Verde	Mesa Verde National Park	Ranger Jim Hakala at Mesa Verde National Park
Visiting Mesa Verde	Picnic lunch in the Rocky Mountains	Sketching wildflowers at a Colorado campground
Historic Rocky Mountains mining town of Silverton, Colorado	Another artist sketching, Silverton	On the road in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado
Homestead in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado	Heading back across the Midwest: a cattle feedlot in Kansas	After the shoot-out... at Boot Hill, Dodge City, Kansas
Harpers Ferry National Historic Site, West Virginia	Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in SW Pennsylvania	Gettysburg Civil War battlefield (1863), western Pennsylvania