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!
In keeping with tradition, I did try to load Bill’s old submission from a while back (seems like years, tbh) for today’s post, but it crapped out…which was something I recall, now. And so I tried another old submission from and it also failed. I think I remember this too.
So I went back through submissions and found this. Now I know some of you have made some great submissions in the past few days, and I’ll run them – next week! I’ve still got some housecleaning to complete; regardless of these errors, I’ve got a few to work through and so I hope to start with Bill’s old post next Monday (if the issue can be solved), and then begin working with some of these great new submissions after that. This week is working through some old submissions and some personal pics as well.
In light of losing my mom, I’m also planning a post sharing the detailed obit we passed out at the funeral and associated events. This will entail losing my semi-anonymity, and will be later this week. Given the academic bent of so much of the site’s readership, I expect a few readers will know of her, which would be amazing. I’ve always gotten such energy and love from folks she’s affected, around the country and especially around the world.
But first – as so many of us are dealing with cold and remnants of snow – let’s turn our gaze to the Big Island of Hawaii. Having spent almost 10 years living in rural, sunny, dry Southern Colorado, this looks very, extremely inviting, especially knowing there’s tons of fresh seafood available since you’re not land-locked but smack-dab in the middle of the Pacific. If that’s not heaven on Earth, I’m not sure what is.
Today, pictures from valued commenter Joey Maloney.
One more from the Big Island of Hawaii.
: this is Kohala district, which looks more like Montana and Wyoming than a tropical paradise. (Fun fact: The Big Island has every major climate type on the planet except for arctic tundra.) There are close to 200K head of cattle on Kohala ranches. In the background some of the observatories at the summit of Mauna Kea are visible. I think that’s the Subaru 8 meter telescope on the extreme right, and the domes of the two Keck 10m mirrors. I can’t tell for sure which ones are on the left. It might be the CHFT and the Gemini North.
Thank you so much Joey Maloney, 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.
One again, to submit pictures: Use the Form or Send an Email
Aleta
wow, nice picture. I really like it.
I learn a lot when I read the obits of women in older generations. They did ground breaking things and important work, and it’s a form of history that isn’t so well documented or at least isn’t so easily found in common knowledge.
eclare
Lovely photo, hate that Hawaii is such a long flight
Quinerly
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raven
@eclare: We did it from Atlanta and it was a lot harder on us than the LA family.
Honus
It’s a long flight, we’ve done it a couple of times from charlottesville through Atlanta to Honolulu. My son that went to school there says one long flight is the best way though. It’s tough, but when you get off the plane, you’re in Hawaii.
?BillinGlendaleCA
If you want some more practice Alain, I’ve got some new stuff I can sent your way. I think there’s the Japanese Garden stuff I sent in that never ran, I could resend that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: IIRC it’s 5 1/2 hours from LAX to HON, it’s 6 1/2 hours from LAX to Tahiti.
Tom Levenson
I love the Big Island and have shot parts of three films at the observatories on Mauna Kea. Kohala is paradise. Perfect weather, quick ride to astonishing beaches, cool mtns, etc. haven’t been Jan overall decade. Must go soon. Thanks for the memories/reminder.
Alain the site fixer
@?BillinGlendaleCA: hold on the Japanese stuff, that’s what craps out! But if you want to submit another set for next Monday, please do!
rikyrah
Beautiful picture.
Welcome back, Alain?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Alain the site fixer: Sure, I’ve got some new stuff. I send something over in the next few days.
Joey Maloney
@eclare: Try it from Tel Aviv some time. TLV-ITO 25 hours gate-to-gate is about the best you can do.
Can I ask a site question? Why is it on my mobile that when I click on a BJ link in Twitter the site has a completely different look than if I just go to balloon-juice.com? I mean, I see that there’s something extra in the URL that I guess causes a different stylesheet to load, but why?
Alain the site fixer
@rikyrah: thank you so much. As always, your presence and energy help make this community.
Alain the site fixer
@Joey Maloney: what kind of phone!? Send me an email via the form with details please..that sounds weird. The mobile site looks different then th desktop site, but you should always see the same on the same device!
Joey Maloney
@Alain the site fixer: Message sent.
Waratah
Lovely photo, if I did not know it was Hawaii I would say mountains.
Steve in the ATL
@eclare: what the hell were you doing up at 4:25 am?
Yarrow
Ohhhh….LOVE the Big Island. So beautiful.
frosty
That’s really interesting about the climate zones. Who knew?
Hawaii is on the Bucket List. I got the last of the 49 other states in 1978 but just haven’t made it out there.
The Moar You Know
The Big Island is the most amazing place I have ever been in my life and I’ve been to some great ones. I spent only ten days there, but had it been ten years it still wouldn’t have been nearly enough.
I’ve been to the other islands, which are also amazing, but the Big Island is a whole different thing.
MomSense
Lovely photo. I think I would be a fantastic live-in caretaker for an estate in Hawaii. I could even supply the guard dog.
lurker dean
this photo brings back memories, i remember being totally surprised by the huge cattle ranches on the big island. it’s so beautiful.
stinger
Thanks for the picture and the interesting comments. MomSense, that’s a great idea! (Mine would be more in the nature of watch dogs, rather than guard dogs. But they’d alert you to strangers or animals!) I’d be a female Jonathan Higgins.
Steeplejack
@stinger:
John Hillerman, the actor who played Higgins on Magnum, P.I., died last month at age 84. I mention it because it seemed to pass mostly unnoticed.
WaterGIrl
@Steeplejack: I had not heard the news. I always liked him. thanks