Where have you been lately? (Post some travel pics!)
16@ExtraMedium inspired me to start this thread so I could see more of his photos.
How about the rest of you? It’s been too long since I’ve been anywhere so I want to at least get a vicarious thrill from seeing your pictures.
It can be pretty here too, though.
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Wow, did you take that yourself? That’s amazing! Sadly, I’ve been nowhere lately, either, so i can’t help you in the thrills department.
@ircon96 Thanks - I did, two years ago!
@Kyeh Gorgeous shot, makes me “want to go to there!”
I love this idea and I hope a lot of you will share some cool photos. I posted several of my old Iceland shots over on another thread (which you should all go join in on as well), so I’ll post some other fun locations here.
Seattle - Lived there for a while, but this was a visit.
Azores, Portugal
An old village in South Korea
A fake city in North Korea
Stonehenge when you could get much closer than now.
Paris (duh)
The mountain range on the horizon to the north of our base in Afghanistan.
Somewhere in Germany
I think I took all of these with my Canon 20D, but have since moved to just using my phone for most photography since it is so fully featured and easy to have with me when I’m traveling.
@ExtraMedium Wonderful photos! I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Seattle, Paris, and parts of England, but none of those others, although those trees in Korea look very much like Japan.
So you were stationed in Afghanistan? Wow…
@ExtraMedium
Wow, who knew you were such a world traveler? Wonderful photos.
@ExtraMedium Great pictures! I can relate to a number of these shots. I was born in Seattle, married an English/Irish woman (I see more Irish when she’s mad), I have a French last name and as a teenager I spent an afternoon in a German ER getting a permanent souvenir on my shoulder. I have no file on Korea but would love to visit. I shoot with a 50D… bought some big L glass but mostly use it to shoot youth softball
As for recent travels, here’s a shot from Glacier National Park in Montana.
@ExtraMedium
That’s really dramatic scenery! And mountain goats - what a fantastic photo.
@ExtraMedium @Kyeh I am envious!!! I got within 45 miles of that park. Kid had a stupid soccer tournament (I hated travel soccer and soccer - any kid sport - in general) 45 miles away. We could see the mountains and more from where we were. A bunch of us very bad parents were rooting for the other team to win each game so we could bag the tournament and go to the park. No such luck. Fucking team was in the finals and only then lost. That was at like at 5pm on Sunday. Then we got to drive home 8 or so hours and go to work and school respectively early the next morning. Sucked big time. I never had time to go back as I moved from there at the end of that school year.
Parts of the drive were pretty though. Now of course I live probably 3000 miles away. Odds of getting back are slim.
Haven’t been anywhere lately but this is from the lake last week.
@Star2236 I love how the rippled clouds kind of mirror the rippled water.
@Kyeh
That’s what I like about it too.
At the end of a bit of a hike in 2019…
@werehatrack Haven’t been there yet myself, but my parents honeymooned there and I used to look at their pictures. I always thought of that formation as “The Pants.”
@werehatrack That photo is fantastic!
I did a 6000-mile motorcycle camping ride in 2018 and just missed making a stop at arches because I was having some engine trouble with the bike. I did hit Zion the day before though.
So much natural beauty in Utah.
@ExtraMedium Zion is a top-five park for me because of one specific feature. Some years ago, they closed the road from the junction up past the lodge and on to the end of the canyon, and only allow the shuttle buses - and bicycles - to use it. And the buses have bike racks. And from the end of the canyon, it is essentially all gently downhill back to the junction. I could keep up with the slow-moving shuttle buses easily, and on a bike, I could stop anywhere I wanted to. But it’s crucial to get OFF THE ROAD when doing this.
@Kyeh @werehatrack “The Pants” – bell bottoms, at that.
@phendrick Wikipedia says:
Because of its distinctive shape, the arch was known as “the Chaps” and “the Schoolmarm’s Bloomers” by local cowboys.
@Kyeh @phendrick Schoolmarm’s Bloomers, that’s hilarious!
@ircon96 @phendrick And I spotted this when I was at the grocery store this evening:
I immediately thought of that arch.
@Kyeh @phendrick Good eye, i never would have noticed the resemblance!
@ircon96 @phendrick
I just had the Arch in mind because of this discussion!
A few more…
@werehatrack
Ooo - Hobbit house! New Zealand??
The waterfall looks delightful too, and the river shots.
@Kyeh Yes, the last 4 are from NZ.
@Kyeh
You ever driven the Rim Rock Rd in Grand Junction? Over 20 miles of super scenic rd. Well worth the drive. Amazing rock formations at every turn.
@chienfou @Kyeh I will try ti hit that next time I have the chance.
@Kyeh @werehatrack well worth the effort. Plan to take a few hours to cover the 23 miles since each pulloff/turn is more spectacular than the last!
@chienfou @werehatrack
I haven’t! I’ll have to do that.
@werehatrack ¡Ay! ¡Fantástico!
I haven’t been anywhere special… but my kid went to Italy and Greece… and yes he wore a shirt that said “Not Today Satan” to the Vatican… because I raised him right
@Koolhandjoe
He went, and you didn’t? I think you need to remedy that someday! Nice photo and your son looks like you.
@Kyeh Yep… it was an educational tour that was set up through his school… I am jealous… I have never been out of the country… and don’t even have a passport… and I guess there is no denying him as my kid…lol
@Koolhandjoe @Kyeh my kids have a trip booked through school next summer to Scotland, Ireland, London, and Paris. Next year is the 1st time ever they are allowing parental chaperones so I let my kids decide if I could go, they voted me in, yeah!
@cbilyak @Kyeh My wife and kiddo were supposed to go to England in 2020 with the school then the pandemic happened… the make up trip was supposed to be to Japan and my wife did not want to go to to Japan… so she refunded her her trip fund and then Japan got canceled and replaced with Italy and Rome… and we could not get her spot back in time… she was super jealous… I am not a big on travel so I have so far opted to stay home and watch our elderly dogs
@cbilyak @Koolhandjoe @Kyeh
Man i went to the wrong school. The only place we ever went in high school was a trip to cedar pointe. And that was only my electric car class too.
We just spent a week on Chincoteague Island in Virginia. Big house on the water with the most amazing sunrises. Wild ponies too
@capnjb OMG! Spectacular!
@capnjb @Kyeh Wow, that’s gorgeous! I’ve always wanted to visit those islands, ever since reading the Marguerite Henry books as a kid.
@capnjb
That’s the most amazing pic. The colors are just stunning. I would make that into a huge canvas print.
@Star2236 The house is called Charlotte’s Morning Sun. And for good reason. We have stayed there at least five times now. Best house on the island I have this (or a very similar picture) in a large frame from 10 years ago. It really is the best way to wake up.
@Star2236 And this is the view from the master bedroom every morning. It reminds you it’s time to get up, make coffee, and check the crab pots
@capnjb
It’s beautiful. Just out of curiosity how much is it to rent for a week? I imagine it’s not cheap. And crab pot, what more could you ask for.
@capnjb @Star2236
MAN, I’m very much not a morning person, but living in that house could make me one!
@Star2236 We used to go every year just after Labor Day, when the house prices dropped dramatically, and the island got pretty quiet. We didn’t have a summer vacation last year due to my health issues, so I owed my girls some sandy feet. I booked this house early this year with the hopes that my folks would come with us (my dad just turned 91). At the last moment my dad decided he wasn’t up to making the trip so it was just me, my wife and my daughter kicking around in a 4 bedroom/5 bathroom house on the water. It was pretty ridiculous. In super prime season, it was about $4500/week. Not something I can afford to do often, but with the year I’ve had, it was worth every penny And pulling full crab pots while your coffee brews… makes it all worthwhile. I had fresh local seafood twice a day, every day
@capnjb
Sounds awesome. I’m more of sunset side of lake/ocean whatever, I like like the full sun all day long. My boyfriends cottage has the lake house with sunset side, it’s defiantly an adjustment but nice when we go up. No crab pots though.
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
@capnjb @Star2236
Sounds like us. We rented a HUGE house on St George Island for Mom’s 90th. (see pic below).
7 bedrooms (each with a balcony) and a bonus room/TV room/sleeper sofa), 7 baths, ginormous commercial style kitchen, pool, hot tub, elevator, outdoor seating all over and it was right on the beach. Even came with $500 of rental beach equipment. Mom’s investments are doing well, and I would rather spend it making memories with her than inherit it. Had a room for Mom, my sister, her 2 kids and their SO’s, our 2 kids and grandkids and us. Booked it over a year in advance. Got commitments from everyone to be there, then they only showed up for a few days! Once they got there I think they regretted not taking more time to be all together, but WE (and Mom) had a blast.
Bottom line, it was pricey but priceless!
@chienfou @Star2236 Sounds amazing
@capnjb @Star2236
It truly was. Travel has always been one of those things close to my heart. Thankfully my wife is of the same opinion!
I just checked photos on my phone and it looks like the only place I’ve been recently is Target, where I took pictures of clearance bundt pans. Which I will not post.
@mossygreen I’m pretty familiar with that landscape too!
Also - I shouldn’t have said “lately” because I’d love to see people’s photos from way back too. I might post some like that myself.
@mossygreen I, for one, am glad you aren’t going to post pictures of other people’s bundts. Cleared or clothed, doesn’t matter.
@mossygreen
I was gonna say some funny shit like that but then I found the pic on the lake and shared that. I’m waiting for someone to show their backyard bc that’s as far as they’ve gone.
@mossygreen @Star2236 i have never sent a friend a pic of the back yard because I was slightly proud of mowing my weeds. Never done that. Nope
@mossygreen @Star2236 @unksol
I’ve seen your backyard on here - it’s beautiful!
My most recent trip
@cbilyak Hey! I know that place.
I actually spent more time with video than still photography while on Chincoteague. This was my first drone flight in about 6 months (and flying over water is terrifying). I don’t have the strength I used to have, but I explored a lot of these tidal marshes in a kayak. Good week
I also did a ‘nightlapse’ to catch the stars at night and the sunset in the morning. GoPro10 has some cool features.
@capnjb
Those are fantastic! I love the way the lines of clouds are all strung out like beads.
@capnjb @Kyeh
The ducks at about the minute mark are cool too. You can even tell the tide was rising if you watch the little ‘islands’ getting smaller… I love shooting time lapse. One of my last ones was of the lunar eclipse a while back. I also shot a nite blooming cereus that was really cool. They open overnight with a big showy flower that then dies by lunchtime.
@chienfou @Kyeh Time lapse is really cool. I’m still learning how to get the most out of the subject matter. Those little islands are actually oyster bars… I’d pick up a few on the way back from my kayak trips. Knowing how to shuck an oyster is an important life skill
@kyeh said “Old photos are fine too! Most of ExtraMedium’s are from quite a while back.”
OK - this photo of me was taken a few years ago when I was in New Zealand:
@macromeh
Oh! So cute! Were you born there?
@Kyeh @macromeh
knice knickers.
@Kyeh Yes. My parents moved the family back to the US when I was 5. I’ve been back to visit a couple of times.
@macromeh so cute!!
@macromeh New Zealand is one of the places I’d most like to visit. Not only for the unbelievably gorgeous scenery, but I’ve also heard that the people are very nice.
@Kyeh @macromeh I agree, it’s on my bucket list, too… And, bonus, they (kinda) speak English, so most of the time, no translation is needed! (That’s a little nod to any of our Australian friends in Mehville. I understand there’s a bit of a neighborly rivalry in those parts.)
@ircon96 @Kyeh I think I have a copy of an introduction to the Kiwi dialect around somewhere. Unfortunately, it is out of print.
https://www.amazon.com/Newzild-how-speak-Arch-Acker/dp/B0006BSISE
One example that I recall:
Air mice - a request for further clarification. Example: “Air mice poster doomy job if you key button in?”
With an American family and coming to the US at an early age, I never picked up the New Zealander dialect. (However, I do pronounce scone as skahn, the same as they do in the place where they were invented.)
@ircon96 @macromeh
“Air mice” - love it!
@Kyeh @macromeh Oh, yeah, one would definitely need translation for that! I guess you’d have to stick with the more “cosmopolitan” areas for a more familiar patois!
@ircon96 @Kyeh @macromeh Dunno, my daughter and I spent two weeks knocking around both islands in early December of 2019, and never encountered a single lack of comprehension moment; their version of English just seemed entirely natural to me. And, honestly, I have never felt more welcome or more at home than I was while in NZ. It’s just a very, very good place in every way.
@ircon96 @Kyeh @werehatrack But they drive on the bloody wrong side of the road.
@ircon96 @Kyeh @macromeh @werehatrack
never found that to be TOO big a problem (Ireland, Scotland, Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, St Lucia
Bermuda, Belize) until you come to a roundabout. Then it feels REALLY freaky!
@chienfou @ircon96 @Kyeh @werehatrack Driving around NZ in the 80’s was my first exposure to roundabouts. I got their “Give Way to the Right” directive so ingrained that I had some trouble adjusting when roundabouts began showing up around here (at home in the US PNW).
The other driving oddity that I encountered there was when making a right turn on a 2-lane road. Around here (US), the custom when making a left turn is to hug the center-line while waiting for an opening in oncoming traffic - traffic approaching from behind passes on the right. In NZ, the custom is to pull over on the left verge and wait for an opening in traffic in both the left (your) lane and the right (oncoming) lane. Seems odd to me, having to cross 2 lanes of traffic rather than just one to make a turn.
Hmmmm
I dunno how to post on a phone. Ah well. Nothing exciting anyway
@Cerridwyn
Are the photos on your phone?
@Kyeh
Yes
@Cerridwyn
hit reply. Second group. last button. “moon over mountains” at the bottom. You can straight upload
@Cerridwyn @unksol on a phone it needs turned sideways before touching reply
@Cerridwyn @speediedelivery I have seen others say this before. On my phone I see it both ways so I thought they fixed it. But still worth mentioning. It could be a display width issue
@unksol .
@unksol
Coffee in Seattle before the pandemic and and at the EPIC campus in Wisconsin in the Winter
@unksol My phone I have to turn it. I still see just “Say it” and “Cancel”
@Cerridwyn purdy.
@speediedelivery yea… I don’t know what it is. It’s probably browser or phone specific. I should have included turn it sideways if you don’t see it like usual.
@speediedelivery @unksol One thing is, you have to turn it before you hit reply, or before you start your comment.
@Kyeh @speediedelivery I honestly just think you’re weird if you hold your phone in portrait mode. Lol.
@unksol
I dunno… that’s the only way it lines up with my mouth and my ear…
@chienfou lines up fine horizontal
@unksol
I have trouble tipping my head that far.
@chienfou true if your phone does not auto rotate
@unksol
While the screen will auto rotate the placement of the speaker and the microphone do not change. Consequently they don’t line up with my ear or my mouth in land scape mode
@chienfou eww. You use your phone to make calls??? Gross
@unksol
very rarely… however, I do take calls on it most often.
@chienfou I just scrambledm to hang up because there is no way they have my number. Usually cause I’m on a work call/I did not give you this number
Recently went ice drifting with Lamborghini up in northern Italy. Gotta convert videos to gifs first so if enough people wanna see, I’ll go through the hassle.
@hammi99 yes please
@hammi99 Sounds cool, & not just cuz it was on ice!
@hammi99
I do too. Is that enough people?
@hammi99 piling on
@tinamarie1974 @ircon96 @Kyeh @speediedelivery here y’all go:
@ircon96 @Kyeh @speediedelivery @tinamarie1974
and won’t let me upload the 2nd gif … stay tuned
@hammi99 @ircon96 @Kyeh @speediedelivery @tinamarie1974 I need to change my life goals. Looks amazing!
@capnjb @hammi99 @ircon96 @Kyeh @speediedelivery @tinamarie1974
Holy shit… how far north were you that there was that much snow/ice this time of year???
@capnjb @chienfou @ircon96 @Kyeh @speediedelivery @tinamarie1974
ok had to shrink file size, so please excuse any blurriness!
Challenge accepted: (@Star226)
My backyard.
Bonus feature is the tip of my shoe.
@ExtraMedium What do you think of my picture taking ability now? Huh, huh, huh?
@Barney did you take it with your fancy cell phone?
/giphy proud of you
Correction on Star’s name @Star2236 – fumble fingers. Sorry.
@tinamarie1974 Took it with my phone, but I’m being told that it is now an old phone and I should replace it.
@Barney @tinamarie1974
Told by who?
(Or is that supposed to be “whom”?)
Also - your grass looks better than mine.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 My phone no longer gets updates. I guess that’s a bad thing.
That’s the best patch of grass in my backyard. We’ve been so dry with all of these temps near 100. (Today is our last cool day for the next 10 days or so.). We were supposed to get around 3 inches of rain when the cool front came through, but we only got .01 of in inch and it doesn’t look like there’s too much of a chance to get much more than that.
@Barney @tinamarie1974 Argh. We’ve actually had some rain and couple of heavenly days in the 70s, but we’re heading right back into the dry 90s next week.
And I guess it’s bad if you don’t get updates, but I think my sister still uses a super-old phone and doesn’t care because she doesn’t have sensitive info in it. I wish we could pick and choose updates - just get the safety ones and skip the things related to stuff I never use.
@Barney @Kyeh yeah, you may need a new one then, sorry. Some of the phone companies are offering free replacements to upgrade old equipment.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 BUT I JUST LEARNED HOW TO USE MY OLD ONE!
@Barney @Kyeh I understand. I went through the same thing w my parents this time last year upgrading. It is really frustrating
@tinamarie1974 Ha! Thanks for the words of encouragement. I may end up doing what @Kyeh’s sister does and just go ahead and use it. I don’t use it for anything important. It usually sits in the drawer by my bed.
@Barney Most of my yard would need a week of rain and a pallet of sod before it would look like that. I have large areas in which the only things still alive are the weeds and the fecking bahia grass - which I absolutely hate. It both has runners and throws seed, the highway people adore it, but it gets shaggy in days with its tall seed heads sticking up, and you’d have to literally mow it daily with a grass catcher to stop it from propagating. And then the runners still wouldn’t die. I need to rent a sod cutter in October, slice the roots off of the whole mess, rake the hell out of it, scatter prodiamine everywhere, and then sod over the top of it and keep it moist for two months while the sod takes root.
@Kyeh I wish I could delete the tons of crapola bloatware that’s preinstalled, and pare the phone down to just the things I actually use.
@werehatrack I used to worry my yard to death, I spent so much time working on it, I never got the chance to enjoy it.
That picture is my yard (like I said, I chose a good area) that’s been completely ignored, no watering, no weeding, no nothing. If it dies, I no longer care. In fact if it dies, I no longer have to mow it.
Maybe now that I’m older, I’m also smarter? Nah.
Note: I do go out and water the hoppy toads twice a day.
@werehatrack ME TOO - I’ve disabled everything I can, but a lot of it you’re just stuck with.
@Barney
I love it.
Since folks are posting older pics. I’ll post a few pre covid
Near Frankfurt
Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto
Rothenberg ob der Tauber
Segesta
Sicily/Palermo
Swiss Alps
Strasbourg
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@tinamarie1974 Those are beautiful pictures (except, maybe, that hockey one). You’re making me want to post another patch of my backyard.
@Barney oh, please do and if I’m honest, post covid my pictures are VERY similar
Full disclosure, that 1/2 day vacation during a business trip to see the HHOF is one of my favorites
@tinamarie1974 Haha, you’re no fun.
Edit: You’ve got hockey fever really bad.
@Barney I thought you knew that!!!
@tinamarie1974
Those are fabulous!!!
I’d love to see more of Sicily - another place on my wishlist.
@Kyeh thanks! I would like to go back one day and explore more.
@tinamarie1974 What phone/camera do you use? The photos have such amazing detail!
@Kyeh Samsung Galaxy S9 or an Iphone 7 (I think) my company is not big on upgrading us to the latest Apple technology
I recently upgraded my personal to a S20 Ultra and the definition is amazing.
@tinamarie1974 Huh, I have an iPhone 7s but I’m not sure I get that level of detail!
@Kyeh I tinker with it
@tinamarie1974 The cathedral in Sicily - which camera was that?
@Kyeh iPhone as was the one in France (Strasbourg)
@Kyeh this pic is not so great
@tinamarie1974 But what about that ornate interior view in Palermo?
@Kyeh oh sorry, I thought I typed that I used it for Palermo AND Strasbourg pics above
@tinamarie1974 Oops, you did, sorry - I just read it carelessly. How can you manipulate photos for more detail? I didn’t know that was possible!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974
Check your camera settings to be sure they are taking the largest photo possible. The higher the image size, the better the resolution/detail capability. Some people set their phones to take low res shots to save space then wonder why their pics lack detail (some phones default to less than max to save space as well)
FWIW I generally take any pics I want to be as good as possible with a Camera rather than a phone. My phone pics are generally ‘snapshots’ to use as souvenirs. Dedicated cameras have better optics when it comes to zoom capablities etc.
(that being said, all the below pics are from my S10)
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 I’ll check those settings, thanks. I own a bunch of real cameras, including my father’s Leica that he bought in Germany when he was in the army. That was the first non-Instamatic camera I learned on and I had to use a separate hand-held light meter with it. Fantastic details and clarity, though - just not fast! But I’m usually too lazy anymore to use anything but my phone.
New Orleans 8/20
Glenwood Springs CO 9/20
Arlington Cemetary 10/20
Porland ME 9/21
Sunset Sail Maine 9/21
Loess Bluff Nat’l Wildlife Refuge
Marathon Key Christmas boat parade 12/21
St George Fl (Mom’s 90th) 4/22
@chienfou these are lovely. I especially like the pair of bald eagles.
@tinamarie1974 Crap the names got shifted when the Durango RR pic didn’t load and the edit window slammed shut…
4th of July on St Pete Beach 7/22
@chienfou oh that one is nice too! I have a soft spot for Colorado
@tinamarie1974
Me too…That’s where SWMBO and I met…
@tinamarie1974 crap the last one got dropped too!
Sunset St. Pete Beach 7/22
@tinamarie1974
and a bonus for world’s best business name! (From Key West)
@chienfou I like this reminds me of a few places at the lake
@tinamarie1974
@chienfou - With all the traveling you do, you could have an on-going thread of your own!
@chienfou
Man you traveled during covid. Good for you for not the tying the pandemic get you down.
@chienfou @tinamarie1974
What does swmbo stand for?
@chienfou @Star2236 she who must be obeyed
@Star2236 @tinamarie1974
Thanks TM (I’m at work and it has been a bit busy so not keeping up with this thread…) We have been married since 1977… 45 yrs in a month!
Yes, we did travel a good bit. Prices were amazing, planes were empty, and we did a lot of outdoor stuff so no biggie.
Travel is one of the reasons I work as an ER nurse, where I am employed to work 14:45 to 23:15 (or so) 7on/7off. You can go a good long ways in 7 days!
Lately we have cut down on our travels due to having to keep an eye on Mom…well, I have anyway. SWMBO travels some with her sister or our daughter or for school (just got back from a one week residency in Moscow (ID) or taking the grandkids places.
Looking forward to my sister getting her hew house built so she can take up the slack… it’s been 10 yrs and I’m getting worn out.
@chienfou @tinamarie1974
I thought that’s what’s it stood for but I’m not good with modern day acronyms as I refuse to join social media.
@chienfou @Star2236 45 years, that is amazing! Congrats
@Star2236 @tinamarie1974
Thanks!
@Star2236 @tinamarie1974
Ditto! No Facebook, no Twitter, no TikTok. This is about the only place I post anything, aside from the occasional Office Depot or Amazon review…
Still pisses me off no end when I try to find information about a business and all they have is a Facebook page that you have to be a member to see.
Restaurants are the worst. They’ll have 80 pictures of people eating at the place (half of which are out of focus) but no mention of what their hours are, what their menu looks like, or even their address half the time!
@chienfou @Star2236 Agree! I do have Twitter to follow the local hockey team but refuse to sign up for FB. Ive just decided over time if the restaurant, store, etc cannot make the effort to market outside of FB, then they dont need my business as I am clearly not their target market!
@Star2236 @tinamarie1974
/giphy Preach
@chienfou @Star2236 @tinamarie1974
I’m a member of your congregation - I do have pinterest and Instagram, but I don’t use them socially. What infuriates me most is that local city and county information is on Twitter and FB - that’s just wrong. I mean, have it there, but also have access separately!
@chienfou @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
I thought I was the only one anymore. Thanks guys, makes me feel not so socially outdated now. I never signed up for them in the beginning and I just refuse to now. It’s like every business is trying to be extra special, go through the green door, exit left, hop over the rabbit and maybe we’ll show you our info.
@chienfou @Star2236 @tinamarie1974
Exactly. I’ve come to consider it a point of pride that I’ve never belonged to FB.
I saw several hundred miles of I35 recently. It looked much like this:
/image interstate 35 Waco Texas
But I got done good meals out of the trip, altho not much in the way of breathtaking scenery.
@f00l
Good food is an excellent reason for a road trip!
@chienfou
Thx. And … the 45 years thing is a real achievement, and you also both savored the intrinsic rewards
/giphy raise a glass in salute
@chienfou @f00l Yet another less-than-stellar result brought to you by /giphy. (Sorry to interrupt such a lovely sentiment, which I’d like to second, btw, with my vendetta against /giphy, i just can’t help myself! )
@f00l @ircon96
Thanks for the sentiment.
And yeah… giphy can be less than stellar on it’s own, but if you actually peruse their offerings and then post the link they can be a great thing!
/giphy see?
@chienfou @f00l Lol, i have no beef with Giphy, it’s /giphy i have no patience for! After all, what’s the point of a “shortcut” command that consistently taunts the user with such passive-aggressive inadequacy? I guess this time I’ll just blame @hchavers
@chienfou @f00l @hchavers @ircon96
Here’s what I
waste lots of time doingdo: I whisper to myself and then cycle through slash giphy offerings until I find one I like, then copy that. Even then there are times that nothing is good, but sometimes I can find a gem.@chienfou @ircon96 @Kyeh @bchavers
Yeah, the “salute” Giphy sucked. But it was my 3rd or 4th try, and was as good as the other Giphy results. So i finally gave up pulling the lever on the /Giphy slot machine, for that post.
Sometimes I search out something perfect for Giphy But, usually, I’m lazy, and I allow the “unknowable Giphy quantum mechanics” result to prevail over my minimal artistic judgement.
/giphy “random bad Giphy”
@chienfou @f00l @ircon96 That’s actually kind of a cool giphy!
@chienfou @f00l @Kyeh Yeah, i do the same thing, cycling thru in hopes of a better result, but it takes so many tries sometimes, along with so many duplicate ones, that it ends up seeming like a feature instead of a bug, programmed by some cruel a-hole that wants to drive users crazy. Or, maybe I’m just a tad paranoid.
Took some really nice pictures over the last holiday weekend. But where did I go? Let’s play a guessing game. Each wrong guess reveals a different picture.
@Weboh Thailand?
@Weboh CIA body disposal site #17, grid marker LTR10-17?
@Weboh looks like a densly wooded area, near some rocks/cliffs
@Weboh
@carl669 Aren’t you thinking of yakko?
@carl669 @Weboh
I love your answer @carl669, how does he know it’s not right lol
@ircon96 Dagnabit! You’re good! My first thought on seeing this place was, “with a bit less tree coverage, this could pass for Zion National Park.” I guess with all the trees it’s unmistakable for someone who’s been here.
I had planned to zoom out more and more, slowly revealing its true nature. Thanks for ruining all the fun.
But here’s some pictures anyway.
@Weboh Wow! I’ve been to Thailand but didn’t see anything like that. You said you were just there over a holiday weekend?
@Kyeh No, I went this place in Thailand over a holiday weekend. I hoped phrasing it that way would make it harder to guess Thailand, but someone still got it in 5 minutes…
If I traveled from the US over a holiday weekend, I would spend the whole trip in a plane. I live close enough where this is actually reasonable to do on a holiday weekend.
This is near Bai, in northwestern Thailand. Not sure exactly where because a friend planned the trip. Seems to be a tourist destination, though. Lots of white people.
@Weboh Well, it worked on me! I definitely assumed it was the US somewhere. Remarkable land formations!
@Weboh Oops, sorry! I guess I’ve seen one too many travel docs. I’m glad you decided to post more pics, as i was going to request them. I like the first one of those, with the narrow ridge snaking through the trees, that’s a good angle showing the unique topography!
@Kyeh @Weboh really pretty
@ircon96 @Weboh
Never would have guessed this land looked like that.
Little Grand Canyon/providence canyon state park?
Whole house is getting painted this week so I am in a hotel down the street. Squeaker finds the lack of windowsills disturbing but likes the view and the extra desk space.
Went on a cruise to Iceland, saw beautiful scenery, caught Covid for first time so missed London. Would still recommend because Iceland is amazing.
@venussuz Boo about the Covid but glad you at least got to see Iceland. I just saw on the news that they have a volvanic eruption going on right now!
@kyeh *volcanic
Yeah, missed that. We knew it was a possibility, kinda hoped to see it while sailing away. Glad it’s an unpopulated area.
@venussuz BTDT - not so great if you live downwind!
Mount St. Helens 1980
A California beach with no one around – for a good reason. This is an ecological disaster.
@narfcake Where is that?
@Kyeh Corvina Beach, along the eastern shore of the Salton Sea.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea
@narfcake Wow. I just saw a story the other day about The Great Salt Lake drying up.
@Kyeh Further down the road:
@narfcake Wow, so bleak. And scary knowing that there might be a lot more scenes liked that in the near future.
@Kyeh The area was quite the place back in the 50s and 60s. By the 80s, as the sea became so toxic that wildlife couldn’t survive, it was abandoned. To this day, there are still residents, along with some artists having transformed some of the properties for art.
Not so much for residents here, however.
(I forgot to lock the footage on my dash cam, though, so it’s mostly just some memories of visiting and the few pics I took yesterday. It was also 113, so I didn’t venture out of my car much.)
@narfcake I think I saw something about it on one of those SCI channel shows - “Mysteries of the Abandoned,” maybe? 113 degrees!
One of the most interesting places I’ve been, when I was a child, is Mono Lake - have you been there?
@Kyeh Here’s how Bombay Beach was back in 1999.
Mono Lake, yes – back in the early 2000s, I did a road trip up the eastern side of the Sierras. No real plan; stopped when I felt like it with the only real guide being the sun and the moon, and an AAA guide book for a list of motels.
@narfcake Well, that was fascinatingly weird; surreal, as the guy said. Did you see and speak to anyone when you were there?
@Kyeh Nope. All was quiet. There were other visitors, though; I could tell because one was a rental and another had Texas plates.
My backyard (don’t get out much). I had the opportunity to hang a couple of things on the clothesline this past weekend.
My last vacation was October 2013, the final Disney meet.