"America The Beautiful" - The song nailed it. Katherine Lee Bates' lyrics were spot on. As I drove west, leaving my home in Suwanee, Georgia on March 18th, I kept hearing those lyrics in my head (Ray Charles was singing them, of course). As each state line was crossed, I wondered what sights I would see along the way. My main goal for the journey was to photograph the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, as well as capturing abandoned items along historic Route 66 in New Mexico and T