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On The Road and Suchlike

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  August 30, 20195:00 am| 15 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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Folks,

Still consumed by houses and planning and remodeling and landscaping and all the amazing, crazy details you can get sucked into, thanks HGTV! But see, this is not our first house so we are older and wiser and on top of our experience, we have spent years watching Property Brothers, Love It or List It, Fixer Upper, etc. and have learned a lot vicariously. We see red flags and opportunity where before, we would have smiled with fake interest and missed a lot or taken a plunge, missing hazards and warning signs.

Have be a great weekend, and for those Floridians, etc., be safe and gods-bless.

This was my view just a few weeks ago in high country, Colorado. It already feels like years. I so dearly miss being able to drive for two hours whenever I wanted or needed some of this. We shall reconvene Monday.

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15Comments

  1. 1.

    Baud

    August 30, 2019 at 5:05 am

    You’re literally on the road!

  2. 2.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 30, 2019 at 5:43 am

    @Baud: So I should have posted the dashcam shots on my drive on the Obama Highway?

  3. 3.

    Baud

    August 30, 2019 at 5:46 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Yes! Readership capture.

  4. 4.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 30, 2019 at 6:11 am

    Happy hunting.

  5. 5.

    HinTN

    August 30, 2019 at 6:28 am

    Alain – Mrs H went through a phase of being consumed by Love It or List It and such, so I know you’re well prepared. I agree with Ozark, Happy Hunting!

    ETA: Thanks for running this morning feature.

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    waratah

    August 30, 2019 at 7:18 am

    My husband never saw a road like this he could pass.
    I only recently became acquainted with those shows when I had some back problems.
    I can see where it would affect looking for a home.

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    Sister Golden Bear

    August 30, 2019 at 7:19 am

    I miss being up in the High Sierras. Hopefully, when I’m back I do a road trip weekend before the winter snows start.

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    TaMara (HFG)

    August 30, 2019 at 8:04 am

    I shall go outside and remember I am lucky to have a mountain view. While also planning a beach vacation for November. I, too, am starting the house-hunting process. Am both excited and already exhausted. I await the narrative of your adventures with anticipation. May it be an easy road for you.

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    mrmoshpotato

    August 30, 2019 at 9:02 am

    I only ask that you use all the meat from any houses you shoot.

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    dimmsdale

    August 30, 2019 at 9:35 am

    Alain, If you are ever anywhere near Winter Park, CO, be sure to look for the old Moffat Road; it’s a route over the continental divide that was built shortly after the turn of the last century, before the transcontinental railroad was completed. (The idea was to carve a roadbed out of 12,000-foot mountains, assume that the trains could operate in harsh Colorado winters, and … PROFIT!) The weather did not cooperate, the route was abandoned shortly thereafter, and the grades, ties, rails and trestles were left to molder and decay. The grade is still there, although the ties and rails are gone, and it is one of the most beautiful drives you could imagine; you can’t go all the way over the Divide, of course, because of rockslides and whatnot, but it is (IIRC–last time I made that trip was 1990) a joy to drive. Your dash cam picture prompted me to post about it; hope you get to do it one of these days. Happy trails!

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    Miss Bianca

    August 30, 2019 at 9:36 am

    Hey, Alain, come back to the high country when things calm down for ya! :)

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    Alain

    August 30, 2019 at 9:42 am

    @Miss Bianca: I will, it’s a promise. We’ll see if I can make it in January or early Feb for some high altitude ice fishing, but next summer in mushroom season, I’m all-in.

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    J R in WV

    August 30, 2019 at 11:46 am

    Hunting the wild mushroom!! Sometimes you get the Mushroom — sometimes the Mushroom gets YOU!

    ;-)

    Good luck house hunting… we gave up and built one. I spent years looking at “farms” back in the late 1970s, most were just damaged land. Clear cut and over grazed.

    Finally found our current home place, then over the years we acquired more and better neighbors, now it is home sweet home!

    I have temporarily acquired a huge trove of family photos and documents from my cousin, including a great aunt’s diary, all the letters Grandma wrote great aunt, two boxes of photos and strongbox contents from grandma’s farmhouse. Scanning and photographing to commence asap.

    Any recommendations for cloud type sites to archive each item with text details about the items? ETA: or software to archive on my own hard-drive? a terabyte is only $65 now !!

    There will be many photos of people no one can identify, but they will still be interesting as they were taken in the late 1800s and early 1900s… I know many of you have these kinds of troves, so all suggestions will be welcome!

    Hoping for knowledge and wisdom from the B-J Hive Mind!

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    BroD

    August 30, 2019 at 12:07 pm

    Yeah, I drove that road once in NC–who knew it went all the way to CO?! I bailed after 1/4 mi–that drop-off on the left was really scary.

  15. 15.

    JustRuss

    August 30, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    I’m fortunate to be about an hour from roads like that, and I plan on visiting them tomorrow. On two wheels.

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