On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their transient locales.
So, please, speak up and share some of your adventures, observations, and sights as you explore, no matter where you are. By concentrating travel updates here, it’s easier for all to keep up-to-date on the adventures of our fellow Commentariat. And it makes finding some travel tips or ideas from 6 months ago so much easier to find…
Have at ’em, and have a safe day of travels!
Should you have any pictures (tasteful, relevant, etc….) you can email them to [email protected] or just use this nifty link to start an email: Start an Email to send a Picture to Post on Balloon Juice
Central Planning
Personal preference: delete the older duplicate, not the newer one.
No road trip for me this week, although I’m mentoring/chaperoning/paying for my kid at the FIRST Robotics Competition at Rochester Institute of Technology. If you want to see some amazing robots designed and built by high school students, check out the live stream which should start around 8:30am EDT.
If you’re looking for something to do this weekend, many local FRC competions will have finals and playoffs on Saturday. You can search for them off the FIRST Inspires website (first link – trying to avoid too many links and end up in moderation)
OzarkHillbilly
No pics again. I feel cheated.
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly: Maybe you should sign up for the premium membership. It’s only 5x the cost of the free one.
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: 5x the cost of the free one? Not sure I could afford that… No definitely outside of my budget.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Central Planning:
We dealt with that in the previous thread, please do try to keep up.
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly: Sacrifices must be made. Maybe skip that iPhone upgrade.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’m thinking of going to the Pio Pico(last Mexican Governor of CA) State Historical Park and the Nixon Library on Saturday.
Central Planning
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I need something that will stream BJ threads to me while I sleep. I wonder if there’s a FYWP plugin for that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Central Planning: There’s always the low tech method, ya know, the back button.
Central Planning
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That is easy and uncomplicated. We don’t do that here.
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: I will never have a phone that is smarter than I am.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Still using the two tin cans and string?
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m torn between “Too late!” or “I’ve never seen a phone build anything.”
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: The classics never die.
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: What to do, what to do….
Central Planning
Not really pictures, but this video of an Amtrak train flying into a station with snow all over the tracks is funny, but apparently some people got hurt (which is not). Video of the train There’s a slow-mo link on that page too which looks amazing.
Schlemazel
@Central Planning:
Saw that yesterday, hope nobody got hurt. What amazed me was that people are standing there, watching the train come in & it is throwing up a huge wake but they don’t get out of the way.
OzarkHillbilly
Amboy Crater in the Mojave Trails national monument is among the southern California landscapes where heavy rains have brought a once-in-a-decade covering of wild flowers .
Picture.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: I’ve been meaning to head up there for some night sky pics and hike the crater.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I wish I was closer.
laura
This post needs Moar Poco.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Looks to be about 4 hours to get there from this here cave. I’ll have to wait until there’s not a moon out.
Mnemosyne
Last full day at Disneyworld today. Breakfast with Mary Poppins, and then Animal Kingdom. A fun time is being had by all, but between my bad knee and the 11YO’s cold, we’re exhausted.
Quinerly
@laura:
Poco’s Chauffeur had a great day at Canyon de Chelly. She had to stick to the rim drives because of Poco. The canyon is greening up nicely. Looking down and seeing the little houses with their little fences is magical. The locals who actually summer in the canyon are in the process of moving back in those little houses. Mostly locals everywhere…very few tourists. Poco had his first and hopefully only spell of car sickness..it has heated up unexpectedly and it’s getting to him even with all the windows down when she has to leave him in the car for just a few minutes…plus his chauffeur only has February clothes. Low key day down by the San Juan River today.
BellyCat
650 miles in the last two days with ZERO mechanical problems for the Tin Can. Looks like my thesis committee might just approve my MacGyver Ph.D.
Had a great stop in Fredericksburg for dinner last night and heard some GREAT live music by Stephen K Morris (guitar, standup bass, and fiddle). Sadly, the CD I bought utterly fails to capture the energy of him live.
frosty
@Mnemosyne: Hang in there! It’s exhausting at the best of times. My wife took my son a few years back and it wiped her out. A week later she found out she had pmeumonia during the trip.
frosty
@BellyCat: No problems? That’s the way it’s supposed to be!
BellyCat
@frosty: No fun in that, right? ;-)
Mnemosyne
@frosty:
That happened with my friend’s pre-teen son a few years ago — he was coughing a lot, but he swore he was fine to go to Disneyland and was fine all day. When they got home, he was diagnosed with walking pneumonia. She felt SO guilty, but he said he was fine. He’s a big Disney geek, so he didn’t mind.