Looks like northern AZ. My guess is probably on 160 , heading East, right near the Four Corners landmark turnoff (on your left). The higher, darker mesa on the far left in the background looks like Mesa Verde.  If the shot were wider, you would see Shiprock on the right. Real pretty up there in Navajo land, but some real crap weather. If it isn't cold and windy it is hot and windy, but generally windy and mostly very desolate and barren. So, yes, a good analogy for the current GAW staff.  

P.S: Pareidolia at work in that tumbleweed.