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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  August 1, 20195:00 am| 37 Comments

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

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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,

 

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

Happy First of August, Swiss National Day. As a Swiss-American, I am blessed to be able to celebrate July 4th and Aug 1st, very similar celebrations of liberty and brotherhood. Delicious sausages, cheese, fruit, kirsch, and wine await!

If things work out, I’ll be wandering around some high-altitude Colorado next week in pursuit of the much-sought-after boletus edulis. A fresh “king bolete”, sliced, and sauteed in butter, is one of the finer things in life, and it’s been 5 years since I last dashed around 11-12,000 feet mountain sides for a few hours digging up such edible gold. Like I said, if things work out….

Today, pictures from valued commenter Steve in the ATL.

Work travel

Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Colorado

If I’m going somewhere good for a Monday meeting, I like to go in on Sunday and go hiking. There is no way for a photographer of my caliber to capture the majesty of the Rocky Mountains with an iPhone camera. This was a nice hike near Boulder, though.

Taken on 2017-12-05 00:00:00

Glendale, California

I was bargaining in Glendale and had dinner with Ruckus one evening. This was supposedly smoke from one of the wildfires burning then, but I suspect it was coming from BillinGlendaleCA’s apartment as he and Mnemosyne watched a Cheech and Chong movie and binged on Doritos.

Manchester, Tennessee

Couldn’t resist the rebel flag in front of the Walmart sign. You’ll be unsurprised to learn that the driver was an old white man.

Cleveland, Ohio

Normally above-ground pools are super nice. Not sure what happened to this one….

Alameda, California

Stumbling out of a college friend’s house on Saturday morning, I saw this a couple of doors down. Il pretty sure we didn’t do that, but we did drink a lot of wine the night before….

 

Thank you so much Steve in the ATL, 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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37Comments

  1. 1.

    eclare

    August 1, 2019 at 5:30 am

    Great variety of photos! That pool…

  2. 2.

    StringOnAStick

    August 1, 2019 at 5:47 am

    Golden Gate Canyon, one of my favorite state parks!

    Steve in the Many Places, next time you’re in the Denver area try Staunton State Park, really nice new(ish) state park. Basically due West of Denver so a bit South of Golden Gate

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    tokyokie

    August 1, 2019 at 5:53 am

    If it’s Swiss National Day, then I’ll have to wear a Swiss National Team jersey. But should I wear the home or away kit? (Helvetia is one of the football teams I support, partly because I went to school for a year there, and partly because key members of the squad are the sons of refugees from the dissolution of Yugoslavia and therefore their success pisses off the Russkies.)

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    Baud

    August 1, 2019 at 6:05 am

    I like that they’re organized in descending order of classiness.

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    JPL

    August 1, 2019 at 6:09 am

    @Baud: tee hee hee
    Steve’s photographic skills are better than Cole’s, but he has a way to go before he achieves Bill status.

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    raven

    August 1, 2019 at 6:15 am

    That’s some goofy shit.

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 1, 2019 at 6:22 am

    @raven: From a goofy guy.

  8. 8.

    J R in WV

    August 1, 2019 at 7:22 am

    V. High level of Goofiness – great job.

    Thanks, Steve. Hope your wife is doing better!

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    debbie

    August 1, 2019 at 7:26 am

    That is so, so Cleveland!

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    Sab

    August 1, 2019 at 8:18 am

    @debbie: Once you let pool maintenance get of hand you really don’t want to drain it into your driveway.

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    Amir Khalid

    August 1, 2019 at 8:39 am

    That pool is cetainly full of, um, green tea.

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    Sab

    August 1, 2019 at 8:47 am

    In the pool owners defense, this was one of the wettest springs on record in Cleveland. They probably mostly drained it last fall, and this is what happened.

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    HinTN

    August 1, 2019 at 9:22 am

    SteveintheATL@top – Manchester, TN … Dude, you were right next door. Coming back? (I know, “Not if I can help it!”) Get someone on the FP to get you my contact info.

    ETA – We have plenty of young white men with the same affliction.

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    chris

    August 1, 2019 at 10:18 am

    Steve in all the best places! What is the other flag with only seven stars? Anyone?

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    Sab

    August 1, 2019 at 10:46 am

    @chris: That is the actual Confederate flag. The one we think of as the Confederate flag (with the saltire) is their battle flag.

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    MobiusKlein

    August 1, 2019 at 11:04 am

    Coincidentally, I’m leaving for Switzerland today, but I can’t manage to spell it right without auto-correct. Ah well, I still have time before the flight leaves.

  17. 17.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 11:08 am

    @StringOnAStick: will do. There are so many great places to hike around Denver!

  18. 18.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 11:11 am

    @HinTN: I was in Kimball last month, but not sure when I’ll be any closer to you than Chattannoga.

    BTW, we were at Cotton Row in Huntsville. Were you referring to the Bottle?

  19. 19.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 11:12 am

    @JPL: there’s a lot of room between Cole and Bill…

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    chris

    August 1, 2019 at 11:21 am

    @Sab: Thanks. But doesn’t the real flag have thirteen stars?

  21. 21.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 11:29 am

    @J R in WV: thanks—she’s making slow progress, but at least there’s progress

    @raven: @OzarkHillbilly: i yam what i yam

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    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 11:32 am

    @chris: yes. This appears to be the Confederate Navy Ensign which was used from 1861–1863. Maybe the racist old white man was a USN vet?

  23. 23.

    Yarrow

    August 1, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    This has to be one of my favorite collections of On The Road photos in a long time. That green pool is perfection. Travel always sounds so glamorous. Your photos are definitely grounded in reality.

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    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    @Yarrow: you are my new favorite poster.

  25. 25.

    chris

    August 1, 2019 at 12:23 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Thanks, Steve.

    More here because of course confederateflags.org exists!

    ETA: Scroll down.

  26. 26.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 1:04 pm

    @chris: you mock, but that’s going to be important information when the South rises agin!

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    chris

    August 1, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: And the South will surely rise again! On the sea level rise brought on by climate change.

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    Mel

    August 1, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    Love these photos!

    That’s not a pool, though – that’s a science project gone terribly awry. Residents of that street need to prepare for the imminent arrival of Swamp Thing (and I don’t mean the bloated, orange kind!).

  29. 29.

    Eljai

    August 1, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    I enjoyed this travelogue! Seeing that car in Alameda reminds me of the time I returned to the parking lot to find that someone had carved a Jesus fish on the side door of my station wagon. I guess it could’ve been worse.

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    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 3:37 pm

    @Eljai: the Alameda photo was actually taken the day before the SF meet up at the Thirsty Bear

  31. 31.

    HinTN

    August 1, 2019 at 3:44 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Cotton Row is the place I had in mind. Still excellent?

    The Lookouts are always a great place to hang on a summer evening. We’re going on Saturday, 24 August. Probably leave before the fireworks.

  32. 32.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 3:51 pm

    @HinTN: it was fantastic. Good French wine, fresh seafood. Even the terrible sounding desserts (phyllo PB&J, feta ice cream) were delicious. The only thing I didn’t love was the port served with dessert, but that’s ok because it was compliments of the chef.

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    Sab

    August 1, 2019 at 5:12 pm

    Cleveland suburb (Brookpark?) :Drain the swamp!

  34. 34.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 5:42 pm

    @Sab: outside the Marriott near the airport

    I told the hotel manager that with my Marriott platinum status I expected a better view!

  35. 35.

    Sab

    August 1, 2019 at 5:54 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Spouse and I argued about this on morning dogwalk. (Neither of us are morning people, so both cranky, we argue a lot.)

    I said no way is this Cleveland. Taken landing at airport. He said impossible to get such a good shot from an airplane. THEN he said must be taken from a drone.

    ETA hotel window. How did neither of us geniuses figurw that out.

    I said : he’s a management lawyer at work. Who the phuck takes a drone on a business trip. He said: obviously he did.

    I said, if your mother loved you so much why did she drop you on your head in infancy and damage your brain.

  36. 36.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 1, 2019 at 6:13 pm

    @Sab: ha!

    If I’d had a drone, I’d have fired a missile at that pool

  37. 37.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 2, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: I see they put you up at the Hilton, nice place; but you can’t see my place from there(The Cave is in the other direction).

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