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
Pictures, after the jump.
First up, from Phylllis:
Where it was taken: Augusta National Golf Course
When: Drive Chip & Putt competition on Sunday, April 2nd
Other notes or info about the picture: Wish I had taken pictures of the mob in the gift
shop losing their collective minds and indiscriminately grabbing sh*t just because it had a Masters logo on it.
Next up, from Carol Ryan, a view of from heaven-on-Earth:
Where it was taken: Maui
When: March 31, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: This was taken at the top of the tallest peak of Haleakalā (“house of the sun”), at 10,023 feet.
Thanks Carol and Phyllis, do send more!!
Next up, an omission from yesterday’s otmar pictures:
Where it was taken: Vienna, Votivkirche
When:now. (last) Tuesday noon
Other notes or info about the picture: On the way back to the office from a meeting with ISPs, relaxing a few minutes in the park.
The church is not really Gothic, but built much later in neo-Gothic style.
Wow – thanks as always!
Next up, from Tenar Arha:
Where it was taken: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
When: Sunday, 4/2/2017
Other notes or info about the pictures: Every year the ISGM puts out these
beautiful hanging nasturtiums in the indoor courtyard garden. These are
definitely my #firstflowers for 2017.
Views:
-flowers in their pots on the 3rd floor
– the interplay between the shadows & the?
-flowers from courtyard floor
Just gorgeous, thank you so much for these!
I’ve got enough pictures in the inbox to get through this week, perhaps Monday next. But, we’ll be needing some new material by then! Hopefully some of you are galavanting around right now and will send pictures! To preserve your privacy, when pictures are uploaded to the site, they are stripped of all EXIF data so that your privacy is preserved. This does mean that we lose location and date info, FYI.
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
Haleakala is really that awesome. I wished I knew those two were on Island, I would have had dinner with them or something. I hope NotMax had the chance to.
Baud
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: Agreed. Great National Park.
Raven
It’s cool to see the first two pictures of places I’ve been! Did you get to sunrise on Haleakalā ?
Raven
Just after sunrise the cloud bank is incredible .
raven
Clouds on the house of the sun.
ThresherK
Wonderful stuff from all.
I know HI has snow-capped, steep peaks, and is volcanic rock, but never would have guessed that was it.
And, after days of 65f and 70f here, the Augusta scenes don’t look quite so unattainable in CT.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Sunrise? Homie don’t play that. We took the chopper tour.
raven
@ThresherK: We took some cold weather gear for our July visit but there were dopes up there in shorts!
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: When you visit from there east coast you are already awake a 3 on the first day do we just drove on up. I’m sure you go great shots of the lava cones but hiking down there was fun!
Major Major Major Major
Wow, that Maui picture is amazing.
OzarkHillbilly
Nice shots, all of them. Was wondering what I should plant in my hanging baskets this year. Asked and answered.
Phylllis
The Gardner Museum photos are fabulous. Would love to visit it one day. Thanks for putting up my photos. During DC&P, you only have access to a few areas of the course, just enough to make you even more determined to go back for the full experience. Did get some pimiento cheese sammiches.
Quinerly
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Major Major Major Major
Bangkok, part 2.
ThresherK
@raven: Wow.
I have been to the top of New England’s closest equivalent (Mt. Washington), in late June. Same packing rules apply
Waratah
@OzarkHillbilly: I like to plant them in pots with herbs to add some color.
rikyrah
Thanks for the pictures. LOL at Phyllis…If you aren’t psyched about getting stuff with Masters on it at AUGUSTA…Where would you be????
Argiope
@Major Major Major Major: WOW! New place for bucket list. Thanks for this, and for all who share photos. Such a great way to start the day, admiring the beauty in the world.
ETA special thanks for Alain for getting this started.
OzarkHillbilly
@Major Major Major Major: Thanx.
Jeffro
No pictures here yet, but off to San Francisco with the family for spring break. Shame it’s going to be chillier there than in NoVA ?
Tenar Arha
I’ve been loving the travel pictures.
I think the description was supposed to be
“- the interplay between the shadows & the flowers on wall of the courtyard”
Bonus video of the process of hanging the vines
Miss Bianca
Wow, such gorgeous phots! Particularly drawn to the nasturtium shots this am. Thanks for sharing, all!
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
A couple of things about Haleakala sunrise that you should know if you ever visit. 1) due to it’s popularity, you have to reserve a ticket to the sunrise now. 2) you will need to get up at about 4 AM to make it to the top in time 3)It is FREAKING cold up there in the pre-dawn, below freezing a lot of the time. Bring a jacket, a blanket and long pants.
Carol Ryan
@Raven: No we didn’t make the sunrise. Now you need reservations to go, and it’s too early and too cold for us to really want to do it. Even in the middle of the day it was freezing up there!
Carol Ryan
@Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]: