On the Road and In Your Backyard

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!

Folks, this is really just the greatest post to start this week. I know tomorrow is tax day and all, but I will be putting up a little fundraising post for a few good causes Wednesday. “Beyond politics and civic duty, it’s time we did some other good in small amounts,” says I.

And for those who might wonder why tax day isn’t Monday, it’s because Washington, D.C., your Nation’s Capitol, does not have the same representation in Congress, much less the Senate, that you do. And so each year, since DC residents have Taxation Without Representation, the DC Government has a holiday which forces the Federal Government to push the due date one extra day.  One little annual “F-You” from the folks who live here and yet have no say in our Federal system.

I am no longer a DC resident for well over a decade, but the passion still burns strong, as it should for all you readers. Literally – the people who live in Washington, D.C. have no representation in Congress and are overseen, like untrustworthy children, by the same Congress they have no voting representation in. This is bullshit and 100% un-American. Even worse – the DC population is higher than some states. It is antithetical to our fundamental myths and values and yet we really don’t care.  There’s a world of stories of race, power, class, heritage, and cowardice at root in this city waiting to be uncovered and explained by our moral successors.

To be clear, I don’t mean to dismiss the important causes in Puerto Rico, USVI, and the assorted Pacific territories – American Samoa, the Marianas, and Guam! Not to mention the third world conditions on too many reservations throughout our land of unparalleled plenty.

And for those who may care, then-candidate Obama was correct, just fumble-mouthed. There were 57 primaries – not states – because there are all these other places that are parts of America, including Americans Abroad.

On that note, have a great day and let’s enjoy today’s singular focus.

 

 

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter Vicki Delany.

Trip to Malaysia in March/April 2018. Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia

Juvenile Orangutans at the Sepikok Sanctuary

Taken on 2018-03-26

Sepikok, Malaysia

Play time for young Orangutans

 

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

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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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