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This years summer vacation

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  • LuFins DadL Offline
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    LuFins Dad
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    #15

    And if you cut anywhere in the SW PA, Western MD, or Winchester areas, I am sure that @Aqua-Letifer and I would be willing to make a drive out to meet you and the the Mrs. Bach.

    Oh, and an interesting side note… Between SW PA, through Winchester is about the only place in the US where you will find still running Drive In Theaters…

    The Brad

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    • MikM Offline
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      We have some.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • MikM Mik

        We have some.

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        LuFins Dad
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        #17

        @Mik said in This years summer vacation:

        We have some.

        Yeah, but they have all those XXX s over the signs, so I don’t count those.

        The Brad

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        • MikM Offline
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          Mik
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          Nope. Family entertainment.

          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          • bachophileB bachophile

            Thanks! All scenic recommendations welcomed. Only the plains will be done by interstate ( fucking spell checker wrote interstellar and I managed to edit that out before posting ) highway. At the two bookends I’d like to stay away from the I’s.

            I’ve gone east to west driving many years ago. Along a southern route parallel to I 40. Now it’s going to be a bit more northern to avoid the heat. (Yeah Vegas. I know. That’s the only hot spot I’ll tolerate. Sin city and all that jazz).

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            taiwan_girl
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            #19

            @bachophile Sounds like a fun trip!!! Enjoy!!

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              #20

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              I’m not going to bombard you with endless pictures but I’ll post occasionally as we make our way across to the east.

              The w/e was spent with family in SF and today was the first real traveling day. So you have the classic pic up Yosemite valley.

              Snake ID anyone? Crossed our path while hiking under half dome. It looked like it had a rattler tail, but didn’t seem to me to have the classic viper triangular head so I have no idea what it was.

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              • bachophileB bachophile

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                I’m not going to bombard you with endless pictures but I’ll post occasionally as we make our way across to the east.

                The w/e was spent with family in SF and today was the first real traveling day. So you have the classic pic up Yosemite valley.

                Snake ID anyone? Crossed our path while hiking under half dome. It looked like it had a rattler tail, but didn’t seem to me to have the classic viper triangular head so I have no idea what it was.

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                George K
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                @bachophile said in This years summer vacation:

                bombard you with endless pictures

                Please do!

                We love them!

                My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.

                However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.

                Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.

                More pics, please?

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                • George KG George K

                  @bachophile said in This years summer vacation:

                  bombard you with endless pictures

                  Please do!

                  We love them!

                  My travels across the great plains are restricted to two trips with my parents when I was in my late teens - yeah, figure it out.

                  However, I was awed by the gorgeous barrenness of the plains of North Dakota and Eastern Montana when we rode the Empire Builder. There is so much "there" not there. I kept thinking about the reaction of Lewis and Clark when they saw these endless vistas of...nothing.

                  Scary, empty, awesome, and in their own way, beautiful.

                  More pics, please?

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                  @George-K said in This years summer vacation:

                  Please do!

                  We love them!

                  +1

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                  • bachophileB Offline
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                    Yosemite falls

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                    El Capitan

                    Gives new meaning to Alex Honold’s free solo climb

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                    • bachophileB Offline
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                      bachophile
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                      #24

                      Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID

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                      • bachophileB bachophile

                        Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID

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                        Renauda
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                        #25

                        @bachophile

                        To me it looks like a gopher snake. Non venomous. Fairly common here in southern Alberta around Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Often mistaken for a rattler.

                        Elbows up!

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                          bachophile
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                          #26

                          Today was sequoia national forest day.

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                          I bet u didn’t know that sequoia has 5 vowels

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                          • LuFins DadL Offline
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                            LuFins Dad
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                            Beautiful.

                            The Brad

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                              jon-nyc
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                              Nice. I considered making my way there in August, it would even give me an excuse to get some meth in Bakersfield, but decided against it. We will see some Redwoods somewhere.

                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                bachophile
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                                #29

                                Coming to you from Mexican Hat Utah

                                This is the view from the motel room overlooking the San Juan River just outside of monument valley

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                                Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?

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                                Glen canyon dam

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                                And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon

                                Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.

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                                  bachophile
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                                  #30

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                                  Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.

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                                  • JollyJ Offline
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                                    Jolly
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                                    Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                                    And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

                                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    • JollyJ Jolly

                                      Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                                      And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

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                                      LuFins Dad
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                                      #32

                                      @Jolly said in This years summer vacation:

                                      Don't know how I missed this. Great pictures!

                                      And yeah, that's a rattler. They ain't bad fried.

                                      Nahhh, I’m with Renauda. That’s a gopher snake. Rattler’s heads are particularly arrow shaped. The teeth and venom glands are exaggerated more than most other vipers.. And are diamonds more than striped in patterns..

                                      The Brad

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                                      • George KG Offline
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                                        George K
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                                        I love travel photos. Thanks for continuing with this.

                                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        • MikM Offline
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                                          Yes indeed. Aren’t the redwoods in Sequoia and Kings Canyon spectacular?

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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