Favorite Places is show and tell. It’s where I show you some of the places we’ve traveled to. This week’s choice is one of my husband’s favorites. (He took all the photos.) Jay loves all things western. I suspect he was a cowboy in a previous life. He was very excited when he learned there was an area outside of Moab, Utah where many of John Wayne’s films were made.
Can’t you just imagine the old mountain men and settlers standing on this ridge looking over the new land? Does it look like something you’ve seen in a movie?
And here’s a place for the thirsty cowboys. They have to hold back the thirsty cattle from stampeding.
(Yes, I’ve seen a million of these movies. That was an exaggeration. It’s really only half a million.)
I think this picture shows the area where John Wayne
and the good guys trapped the bad guys. It looks like a dead-end canyon.
The natural beauty of the area does lend itself to both the imagination and great camera shots.
I hope you’ll join me again in a couple of weeks when I’ll show you another Favorite Place. Feel free to join in and share some of your Favorite Places. Leave a link in the comments and we’ll come visit you.
I have friends who visited Moab and loved it so much they moved there the following year! I miss that part of the country but I’m so glad I have your photos to remind me of its beauty.
BTW: I had no clue that John Wayne’s movies were filmed there.
Gosh, I’m not showing my husband this post. He will want to go there immediately! Personally, I’ve had it with rocks and desert, and am itching for the city! :–)
I’m on Jill’s side, but Dave is a HUGE John Wayne fan and I know he’d love this area. Just looking at the pictures I can visualize Wayne and the posse chasing the bad guys, or Indians peering over the ridge.
Those do look like scenes from old cowboy movies! The beauty there is stunning!
We’ve been Jeeping in that area with our youngest son. Nothing like it (until you remember that the Jeep driver who is taking you on those scary trails is the kid whom you taught to drive). It is beautiful country there and a part of the country that we want to see again.
Great pictures. I can totaly see all the cowboys in them.
It is beautiful country, maybe that’s why I like John Wayne so much . . . his films remind me of home
Just beautiful, Margot! I’m not a western movie fan, but a cowboy? Yes, please.