A Day for Gasping
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (77593)
United States
August 7, 2025 10:30pm CST
For the record, I don’t like being three hours behind my normal time. That, however, is my only gripe (and the reason I’m here so late).
It was a day for gasping in amazement at the beauty in New Mexico as I drove to the Four Corners Monument. Much like being in Badlands four years ago, it’s overwhelming beauty and a landscape I’m just not used to.
And, like the trip to South Dakota, I was weeping for joy.
It was a long day because of the extra hour thrown in, but a very memorable one!
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@DaddyEvil (156240)
• United States
15h
Desert tableau aren't my favorite... Give me green grass and trees any day over a desert landscape.
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@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
15h
It’s amazing to me because this isn’t what I’m used to when it comes to landscape.
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@DaddyEvil (156240)
• United States
14h
@FourWalls After being lost in the desert for a week, is it any wonder I don't care for a desert landscape?
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@rsa101 (39721)
• Philippines
14h
It really sounds like a soul-filling kind of day—one of those rare moments where the beauty just stops you in your tracks. New Mexico has that kind of magic, doesn’t it?
Also curious—how many days have you been on the road now? Feels like you’re covering a lot of ground and soaking in so much along the way!
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@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
4h
I’ve been gone for ten days now! On my way home because I have to be home next Friday. 
@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
4h
It’s not bad when you go one time zone at a time, but the trip from Honolulu to Louisville (six hour difference in the summer, five in the winter) was a killer.
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@LadyDuck (481172)
• Italy
3h
@FourWalls From Nice (France) to Los Angeles it was 9 hours, going there was not so bad, but when we came back it was a killer. The last time we went it took four days before I arrived to get up at my usual time in the morning.
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@LindaOHio (197159)
• United States
2h
I have always wanted to stand at the Four Corners. The closest I came was standing with one foot in Canada and one foot in the US on the bridge. Lovely photo.
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@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
Just now
We have a national park named Badlands, it’s in South Dakota.
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@BarBaraPrz (50164)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
5h
Any gasping done around here is due to wildfire smoke, or so I've been told. I don't really see the smoke, nor smell it, but I guess that's what's piling up on my patio...
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@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
4h
The meteorologists at home say it’s hazy because of the smoke, but it’s not being mixed down into the atmosphere enough to cause problems.
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@celticeagle (178073)
• Boise, Idaho
3h
You sure are seeing a lot of interesting places. What got to traveling anyway?
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@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
Just now
I’m retired and I’ll be in a nursing home someday. I want lots of pictures and memories!
@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
4h
Sorry I can’t make it to the coast this time. I’ve discovered from this trip that I’m going to have to do one of my “dream trips”: drive hard and fast to the coast, then turn around and see everything on the way back. There’s a good two more weeks to view out here, and I have a week to get home.
@FourWalls (77593)
• United States
4h
I’m sure there are lots of scorpions, snakes, and prairie dogs out there. I wasn’t interested in getting out and seeing them (except the prairie dogs, they’re cute, but I’d probably see the other two first…and no thanks!).
@LooeyVille (70)
• United States
7h
I do like it out West. We have often thought of moving to Wyoming, Montana, or South Dakota.
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