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 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!
Just a simple post today, migraine is having its way with me.
Where it was taken: Jamaica Pond, Boston.
When: Early morning, 4th of July 2017.
Commenter nym: rebmarks
Serenity now – we can all use some calm right now, but I fear the storm is just truly beginning to rage, and I fear where it leads.
Elizabelle
Raven! Come out, come out, wherever you are. Someone in overnight music thread (?) noted your absence.
Good morning all. I am good with a fearsome storm if it sweeps out all the Republican traitors and deadwood. Give us back OUR country.
OzarkHillbilly
You have my sympathies. I’ve never had a headache in my life (is it because I am a headache?) but both my youngest son and my wife are fellow migraine sufferers and I know how they can just wipe one out.
ETA: also, nice pic rebmarks
Elizabelle
Raven not missing. He even posted a Bohdi pic on thread prior.
raven
Hey, we rack it at 10pm, I’m rarely in a night thread.
NotMax
Have read many a story about unusual and unexpected happenings at weddings, but this is a new one to this codger’s eyes.
raven
I’m beginning to wonder if the travel thread isn’t killing the early morning conversation. Many of the usual suspects are in evidence but maybe the “topic” is inhibiting?
NotMax
@raven
Once the early morning thread pops up things seem to get back up to speed.
But yes, agree that it has seemingly had an inhibiting effect.
raven
@NotMax: I’ve hesitated to say anything because Alain has done such great things here. What’s funny is that I never much care about what the topic is anyway but I’m not sure the more civil folks here are comfortable going off!
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: That’s a new one for me.
@raven: It’s the travel thread, and I wait for Anne’s AM open thread. So yes, it is inhibiting, but I don’t mind. I do wish Anne would do the AM post a little earlier tho. No law against them both going up at the same time, I don’t see how that would impact people’s enjoyment of the travel pics.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: There’s usually a thread that goes up about 11pm out here or maybe 12. The ‘On The Road’ tread goes up at 2am. There’s usually another one from AL or David at about 3am. I don’t see it as much of a problem.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Well there you have it!
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Well, that’s because you are on a different schedule now isn’t it? I get up at 5 and we take off for our walk @ 6:30. I used to enjoy the 5-6:30 but now, not so much.
Elizabelle
I love the travel thread. And we need not stick to travel only topics. It can be the O dark hundred coffee hour. The beautiful photos soothe me. We are living through a very dark time, through the looking glass, down the rabbit hole.
I skip a lot of the other BJ content now. Sick of the Eeyores and the bloodthirsty. Although I am beyond fed up too, and ready to throw bricks.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: ” It’s the travel thread” . As long as we’re on it, it seems to me that a travel thread suggests current travel and associated conversation. I have 50 years of pictures from various places but I wouldn’t post them in this section.
p.a.
I like the travel thread; don’t know about anything being inhibited, but it may slow down an am post so it doesn’t get bigfooted. As for AL posting earlier: as is, does she sleep at all?
raven
@p.a.: It’s on a timer.
p.a.
@raven: That could make for some interesting ‘Then and Now’ if you revisit or another BJer has been recently, but coordinating that kind of post with another traveler would be a real chore.
raven
@p.a.: Yea, I mean it’s all cool but I thought it was worth bringing up.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven:
I, for one, wish you would. The world is a vast, fascinating, and changing place, most of which I will never see.
J R in WV
I’m loving the One The Road feature. Not too many comments, almost no vitriol. Good with your coffee, so you don’t have to cope with death and blood before you’re awake.
Advice. Local GanderMountain is going our of business show, now store fixtures, shelves/.racks have been sold with stickers on them. They are selling firearms at 30% markdown. I would be interested in getting a deer rifle, something .30+ caliber, .30-06 or up, traditional stock, semi-auto. big glass. Any brand name – model suggestions?
They look to have quite a few on the shelf, most of the clutter is gone. My “large” long arm is a .22.Mag – not really a gun to take game with.
I already know not to get a Remington 700… ;-) An example of an auto-shooter, shoots whenever it wants to regardless of your safety/trigger management! What about a Ruger .338? Or just go with the American standard .30-06? Are there magnum calibers that are much better than the old .30-06? I’ve been more of a pistol shooter the past 20 years.
Elizabelle
@OzarkHillbilly: Yeah. I’d love to see raven’s uh, vintage photos too. Any photos.
OzarkHillbilly
@J R in WV:
Why not? I have one in .30-06. It’s a great rifle, very accurate. If it’s a lack of follow-up shots, my advice has always been, “Don’t miss with the first one.” ;-) especially since 2nd or 3rd shots are even less likely to succeed than a 1st one.
As to caliber, no real advice tho I would say, If I were to purchase my deer rifle today, I’d think long and hard about a .270
Anne Laurie
@p.a.: I should be going to going to bed around 6am, so I can get up around 2pm — that’s the rhythm my body is best attuned to, as it was for my parents before me.
At some point, I got in the habit of putting together & posting an Early Morning Open Thread just before I logged off. It was a good mental discipline to find stuff that didn’t make me want to kill somebody (possibly myself), and some commentors said they were grateful to have something cheerful to read over coffee / on their commutes. Alain’s wonderful On the Road posts may’ve made my standard EMOTs unneccessary… except that some of you seem to prefer having a place to vent / post the latest outrage, and On the Road really doesn’t feel like the best place for that…
The ‘schedule’ function on FYWP is only intermittently trustworthy (right now, it seems to fail about one time in three), but I may start using it anyway — set up the post to appear at 6am, and hope that if it doesn’t it won’t be completely inappropriate by the time I check in again in the afternoon. Opinions?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: That’s constraining the topic a bit, all of my pictures so far have been from a 50 mile radius of the cave. Up to now I’ve posted pics that are current, but my next submission will be pics of Yosemite from 40 years ago.
MomSense
Hope you feel better, Alain. I agree the amount of tension we are all living with is not healthy. Today I hope to take a walk to the shore and get some salt air.
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie:
I like.
Elizabelle
@MomSense: Korra will guide you to the salt air. And protect you from varmints.
Yes, Alain, I hope the migraine is gone, gone. Be well.
debbie
@raven:
More like Trump fatigue, I think.
debbie
Alain, blue isn’t my favorite color, but your photo is magnificent!
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Seconded.
MomSense
@Elizabelle:
She is so preoccupied since she discovered the return of the wild blueberries to our favorite trail. She loves them and I don’t pick them fast enough for her so she puts her snout right in and contorts her face in the sweetest way trying to eat them off the bushes without my help. I even think a squirrel could walk by and she wouldn’t notice. That’s how intense her concentration is.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning twice, IIRC, during the filming of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. He was playing Jesus. A lot of people would have taken that as a sign.
Tenar Arha
Ooh, that’s a good shot. Thanks nym!
(It really highlights how clever Olmsted was in park design because there’s basically parkways all around the pond but you can’t see them in the photo at all).
ETA oops.
Alain the site fixer
@Elizabelle: it is. I’m considering everyone’s comments here as I plan a a redesign of this feature. So anyone else, feel free to chip,in, I’ll be reviewing and making notes later this week.
MomSense
@Alain the site fixer:
I personally like the timing as it is now. I have been waking up early with trumpsomnia and enjoy looking at the photos even though I’m not quite awake enough to comment.
StringOnAStick
I love these posts, and it seems like having a soothing post first thing in the morning is a good thing.
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
Some models of the Remington 700 are well known to discharge arbitrarily, sometimes when the safety is clicked off, other times just because of nothing.
They redesigned the firing mechanism and did a recall, which was not publicized, and then the newly designed gadget proved to be more failure prone that the older one. There was even a 60 minutes piece on the problem.
I’m not a mechanical person, but obviously this machine has a failure path no one can figure out. But I’m going to go with some other brand, Remington is owned by a venture capital firm, not a shooter.