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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  April 11, 20195:00 am| 8 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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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,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

A glorious tradition in DC – thank you Japan! – it’s often a magical, sensuous entreaty from Spring. I am so thankful for this submission, it really is a wonderful, glorious thing.  I wish all of you could smell those fragrant blossoms as they drop and scatter on the wind.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures; hopefully this will spur a lot of cenote submissions from you divers out there!

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter saving private equity.

On the beach, looking south

Taken on 2019-04-07 00:00:00

Gran cenote, the covered half

Taken on 2019-04-05 00:00:00

Tulum, Mexico

Small underground cenote

 

Thank you so much saving private equity, 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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8Comments

  1. 1.

    eclare

    April 11, 2019 at 5:45 am

    The colors are wonderful

  2. 2.

    JPL

    April 11, 2019 at 5:51 am

    My son and dil vacationed in Tulum last year and loved it. The pictures make me wish that I were on the beach right now.

  3. 3.

    Alain the site fixer

    April 11, 2019 at 6:23 am

    Looks like I copied and pasted incorrect intro text. Sorry for the confusion folks!

  4. 4.

    Baud

    April 11, 2019 at 6:27 am

    Baby pic is awesome.

  5. 5.

    OzarkHillbilly

    April 11, 2019 at 7:57 am

    My own are 30 and 32. That baby pic resurrected a distant memory or 2 and brought a tear to my eye. Makes me all the more anxious for the birth of my 2nd granddaughter in August.

  6. 6.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    April 11, 2019 at 8:19 am

    Dived no less than a dozen cenotes between Puerto Morelos and Playa del Carmen – some famous, some not so much, and one that I was one of only 5 divers who ever entered. Now I’ve got to upload some cenote dive video to a linkable site…

  7. 7.

    currants

    April 11, 2019 at 8:21 am

    @Alain the site fixer: Thanks–I’d gone back and re-read several times, trying to figure out what I had missed and where I’d missed it.

  8. 8.

    rikyrah

    April 11, 2019 at 9:23 am

    That baby is living his best life :)

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