On The Road

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

 

And still no Poco!

From JRinWV, an amazing series of pictures. I’m including this big set today with part two coming Friday.

I’m sending a bunch of photos from our European trip, they’re shrunk some and detuned to be smaller, and compressed. These were all taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ200 with a Leica F2.8 24-600mm zoom – well, actually, some may have been taken with my Andriod tablet toward the end of the trip. I blew up the charger when I got confused, the Android charger was OK with 220V and the Panasonic was not. So when I ran out the second battery, that was that.

They are all titled. The only cave paintings I photographed were at the replica Altamira II, not supposed to there, but we were way early, no one else was there, and it wasn’t the “real” cave, but accurate to the mm, our guide Dr Bahn knew the artists who painted it, a perfect copy.

There are many “signs” and symbols among the animals we can recognize.
I took 800+ photos, many dupes, edited and titled 260, and selected 42 to send you.
From Bilbao to Paris. Castles, museum shots, caves, scenery etc. I do have pix of a cave with formations instead of paintings if you think that would interest folks. Also more photos of “portable art” in museums, carvings and tools etc.

Anyway, take a look, post things if they seem interesting to you. They all look OK to me as far as focus and exposure.  The #80 photo of Atapuerca is an archaeological site of the Neanderthal man, and the stories about genetics common to Homo Sap and Neanderthal are based upon remains found there. The Spanish authorities put a big investment into this location, a railway cut abandoned when the mine it served played out, the geologist walking along the cut realized there were caves filled with “modern” sediments as the track was being pulled, the rest is history. There are more photos of that as well.

 

 

What a treasure – so, folks, what say you? Let’s give him some feedback and get some more pictures – I’d love to see the cave with formations!

 

Picture description note: I had some last-minute issues with easily including the description-to-picture, completely my own fault. Here’s the basic info for your reference:

7 RD Bilbao Guggenheim Museum (2) from mountain top P1000093.jpg
95 RD Cathedral de Burgos inside gate P1000391.jpg
34 RD Statue of Saint stomping a demon Santillana church P10001.jpg
52 RD Bison and Horses at Altamira II P1000200.jpg
92 RD Medieval wall of Burgos, Sp P1000382.jpg
5 RD Bilbao Civil War Memorial in funicular park P1000094.jpg
80 RD Entering Atapuerca – old railway bed uncovered ancient si.jpg
121 RD Statue in Burgos, Sp P1000504.jpg
31 RD Santillana Church about 1100 AD P1000166.jpg

51 RD Bison painted on roof in Altamira II P1000199.jpg
56 RD Horses Ibix and signs at Altamira II P1000205.jpg
52 RD Bison and Horses at Altamira II P1000200.jpg
60 RD Complex symbols in Altamira II P1000215.jpg
54 RD Bison and signs at Altamira II P1000203.jpg
50 RD Roof painting at Altamira II P1000198.jpg

53 RD Bison and signs painted at Altamira II P1000201.jpg
58 RD Black Ibix and red symbols at Altamira II P1000209.jpg
55 RD Bison and signs at Altamira II P1000204.jpg

 

Have a great day, all!