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 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.
You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.
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!
More tech issues, sorry Bill. I’ve got Thursday and Friday set, do don’t worry folks!
Today, pictures from valued commenter Boudica.
I waa in Norfolk last week for the Virginia Library Association annual conference. I don’t take a lot of photos and they’re usually not very good, but I thought I’d share two.
Taken on 2017-10-11
This is the view from my hotel room on the 14th floor of The Main (Hilton). I enjoyed the little bit of Norfolk I saw. They had tons of great restaurants on Granby St. I need to go back to try more of them!
Taken on 2017-10-11
This is the view from the 6th floor terrace at the Slover Library. This is a beautiful public library incorporating structures from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
The dome in the distance is the MacArthur Memorial, which I visited. The library there has an amazing collection of MacArthur’s books and papers.
Thank you so much Boudica, 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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rikyrah
Thanks for the pictures ?
Baud
I’m glad I avoided Norfolk last week. I bet they are still cleaning up.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Worse than Fleet Week.
satby
Ignore those guys Boudica ? Thanks for sharing! I’ve never been to Norfolk.
Boudica
We can be a wild and crazy bunch! It’s important to blow off steam after spending your day fighting for intellectual freedom and truth and facts in this world of fake news!
Spanky
@Baud: @Steeplejack (phone): If you guys knew any librarians, you might realize what they’re like outside the library.
Same with elementary school teachers.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Spanky:
We know! We know the havoc they can wreak.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Yeah, you know how librarians get.
MoxieM
@Boudica: Hey Boudica! I’m considering fulfilling my lifelong dream of (finishing) library school. Be interested in your thoughts….
Barbara
If you are ever in Norfolk, Virginia try to make time to visit the Chrysler Museum. It is in an elegant neo-Classical building, and it is free, with a very nice cafe. It is relatively small, but covers both decorative and fine arts, and the jewel is the extensive collection of art glass, from antiquity until today. Tiffany studios, of course, but many other makers of decorative glass, most I had never heard of before. They also have a glass blowing studio across the street, with more limited hours. Yes, it’s the same Chrysler family that gave name to the automobile company.
Elizabelle
I love the Chrysler Museum.
And in Richmond: the Virginia Museum of Fine Art is also free, although you have to pay for the special exhibits they occasionally host.
Both treasures.
MomSense
Nice photos!
Boudica
@MoxieM: If you have a passion for librarianship, go for it! However, most articles I’ve seen show a glut of librarians coming out of library school, just as communities are scaling back on hiring librarians, preferring to hire lower-salaried non-MLS staff to handle duties. So, depending on where you live, job openings (especially for full-time) can be few and far between. I got my degree in ’07 and it took me 16 months to find a librarian job (that was in Texas).