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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.

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Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

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For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

Some form->site issues prevented my normal post; my apologies to all – still, some great stuff today!

Today, pictures from valued commenter daverave.

I’m sure I’m awful late on submitting my eclipse photos because the event was on the front end of a month long trip to NorCal, OR, WA and the Canadian Rockies which resulted in at least a couple of thousand photos to organize and process in PS. I’m just getting around to that process now.

Anyway…. there was a lot of smoky days in the trip but fortunately not for the eclipse. There were also some brilliant days of course also too.

Totality (aka Black Hole Sun)

Taken on 2017-08-21

Malheur NF, Oregon

I tried to spend my two minutes enjoying the show rather than snapping photos and this is the best of the few I took.

Just like a Dog

Taken on 2017-09-01

Jasper National Park, Alberta

A female moose foraging underwater shakes its head.

 

I’ve been blessed with seeing moose close-up twice in my life. They are beautiful, and it’s just amazing looking UP to see an animal’s chest!

 

Smoky Mountains

Taken on 2017-09-01

Jasper National Park, Alberta

The Canadian Rockies up above Jasper at something nicknamed the Disappearing Lake

Looks amazing. Being 1/2 Swiss, the mountains, forest, and rivers – even the rocks – are in my soul. Thanks for this shot, it looks magnificent there!

 

Thank you so much daverave, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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  1. 1.

    Susan K of the tech support

    Eclipse: I saw the totality in Idaho, at Mud Lake municipal airport, near the intersection of I-15 and state route 33. West of Rexburg, north of Idaho Falls.

    No photo does it justice. Like our eclipse photographer, I also did a very swift “take a photo” but I saw right away that it wasn’t going to work, and there’s no way I’d waste nearly 2 minutes futzing with the camera, so I put mine down immediately.

    The camera does not capture it at all. At. all. This photo gets closer to it, though. Enough to remind me of what’s in my mind’s eye. Evening twilight, with Venus visible right overhead (!!), that amazing corona, and the blackest black disk covering the sun.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    My parents took us to Banff and Jasper on one of their summertime odysseys. I still remember hiking around Lake Louise and passing a man with bagpipes. Just as we got back to the car he started to play and what a beautiful thing it was.

  5. 5.

    Mustang Bobby

    “Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit from underwater!”

    I’m back to report that I had a great time last weekend at the Midwest Dramatists Conference in Olathe, Kansas, just outside KC. We had a great group of writers and really fine actors and directors to bring our stories to life. And immodest though I may be, my play “A Moment of Clarity” was very well-received; described by one audience member as “exquisite.” I’ll take it.

  8. 8.

    Elizabelle

    I love these photos, especially the eclipse (gorgeous and atmospheric, with the tree) and the moose.

    Good morning, all. And thank you, daverave.

    Thank you Alain, for inventing this feature.

  11. 11.

    satby

    These are great photos daverave! Thanks for sharing, and do share more please. I wasn’t in an area of totality for the eclipse, so that shot lets me get a glimpse of how cool it was. And love the moose!

  15. 15.

    Mel

    Thanks, daverave and Alain. This is a much needed bit of peace and beauty.

    The totality photo is especially wonderful.

  16. 16.

    MomSense

    Fucking moose used to destroy my garden and eat all my flowers. They are a pain in the neck.

    ETA Got so heated about the moose I forgot to say how lovely the photos are.

  17. 17.

    daverave

    @MomSense:

    We were thrilled to see a moose, MSense. We drove from CA to Maine last year, passing dozens of moose warnings on the road and never saw one! We were beginning to think they were some sort of rural legend. So when we came upon this one foraging in Moose Lake of all places we were wondering whether the Canadian NP people keep it there to entertain the tourists.

    Thanks for posting these images, Alain. Since I don’t take photos for money, this may be the highlight of my photographic “career” such as it is.
    Dave
    ;-)

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