This years summer vacation
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If you want to cut south just a little bit, there’s Winchester, VA. It’s an old Appalachian coal town that’s been revitalized. You’ll see a great downtown with some very nice restaurants and likely some excellent B&Bs, and in a 10 minute drive you are in rolling hills farm/orchard country. There’s also an excellent music conservatory in town that might have a summer series, but if not, you ought to be able to find some bluegrass in the area…
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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…
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"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@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.
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@bachophile Sounds like a fun trip!!! Enjoy!!
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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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@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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Yosemite falls
El Capitan
Gives new meaning to Alex Honold’s free solo climb
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Still waiting if someone can give me a snake ID
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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.
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Today was sequoia national forest day.
I bet u didn’t know that sequoia has 5 vowels
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Beautiful.
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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
Thats monument valley, recognize the scene from Forest Gump?
Glen canyon dam
And downstream from the dam, the Colorado eventually feeding into the Grand Canyon
Tomorrow into the Rockies and Colorado.
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Better dam pictures. Damn it’s nice.
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@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..
