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2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
Those rhododendron photos are nice; thanks for sharing! I have fond memories of Jessie M Honeyman park, south of Florence. We walked and/or rode our bikes to Florence several times during our stays there.
The little cottage ("Alsea") where we stayed was just south of Newport.
A similar conundrum turned up in California recently. In that case, however, the geniuses decided that cutting up the carcass and taking it to the landfill was the best course of action.
But now, when my friends talks to me about going on trips, I feel so lazy, partly due to thinking about the expenses and also due to my laziness because of my Internet addiction. Damn, technology has kept us away from nature and enjoyment.
The "nice" thing about getting way off the beaten path is that your cell connection no longer works so you really are cut off. But even those dead spots are getting filled in.
Welcome to the Blue Highways btw.
LOL
Going to my Niece's High School graduation in Traverse City.
Hope my passport shows up, otherwise add another 100 miles to the trip each way.
Still trying to figure out how I roped into this.
I've been on the road a bit the past several days, too. The coast was nice and clear yesterday, driving around the old neighborhood. I know I am getting older when I can drive by the house I lived in and school I attended ~30 years back, and it seems like maybe last week. Mercifully well kept area of town, I love the lack of traffic and cheap sometimes lovely old houses, sadly, the economy doesn't make it viable for most:
Driving back this morning, cloudier, still little traffic even on the highway:
Once one reaches I5, traffic increases significantly and the sun is hiding (and the only WSP I spotted the whole trip back):
Flowing freely through Tacoma, nice:
Almost home, back to traffic traffic and clouds:
Some nice 'Tears for Fears' in the first vid.
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As do I.
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On road trips, I'll settle on 40's Junction for extended periods, but I'm all over the place
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Unless it's NJ or someplace else where passing on the right is illegal, if the right lane is sufficiently clear, that is where I'll be passing your non-right-lane-driving-vehicle... I'll be passing you safely and with plenty of time for you to take the right lane if you so choose...
planned destinations so far: Vero Beach, St Pete Beach, Faribault MN, Omaha NE .
See you in the rear-view mirror!
My Seward bud was in Kansas today working his way north. Went through Kansas to pick up some airplane parts, naturally.
My wife wants to take the MKC and stop at her sisters o the way back.
I kind of think it is to show off the NKC. Her sister has a Cadillac SRX.
My sister in law has a newer, nicer Odyssey but she doesn't have power sliders, so I make a point of showing them off frequently.
The rental was pretty decent - a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu. The space was fantastic, it was a very nice cruiser with a soft ride but tight suspension, but its little four-cylinder turbo was pretty out-matched by the size of the car. If you really spooled it up, it would move, but you really had to coax it. My son loved all the tech in it. He spent the first couple of days reading the owners manual (the big one, not the quick reference guide). Fuel economy was solid; we used about 37 gallons over that distance, which is pretty extraordinary given the size of the car (with a full load of people/cargo).
Overall, we bisected Pennsylvania before we zipped east to the airport yesterday.
I don't have many photos on hand right now, but here's one of the falls on the Youghiogheny River at Ohiopyle, PA.
Unfortunately, our rafting trip down the middle Yough was canceled due to high water, but there were many rafters and other boaters using the river during that time. We had a "family friendly" run scheduled, though, and they felt the high water made for too rough/fast of a ride for young boaters. Instead, we did a lot of biking and hiking over those two days.
(What are all those tall green things?)
Great shots. I was born in PA, only back once for a very short trip to visit my grandmother before she passed away. I can see I missed a lot of beautiful country. Was this just a camping trip or family visits???
Fall leaves on water.
After that, we went south where we visited her 99-year-old friend in Brookville, and then capped off the trip with a recreational jaunt at Ohiopyle (no friends or family w/ us) on Monday and Tuesday. Overall, we stayed at a hotel one night (first night in), camped in Erie the next four nights, then camped "overlooking" Ohiopyle the next three nights.
Flying and camping on the same trip is rather interesting, but we were able to take the basics (tent and sleeping bags) with us, so it worked out okay. We really weren't "camping" per se, since all we did was use it for sleeping. We were gone at around 0730 each day and did not return until around 2100.
Oh, I forgot to mention that when we went hiking on Tuesday morning (last), the cicada brood had just emerged that night/morning. There were cicadas EVERYWHERE on the grasses, twigs, signposts, everything. There must have been many many thousand of them just along the first fifty yards of trail! Many were still emerging from their exo-skeletons, so they were all just sitting around letting their wings dry (and bodies harden?). When we walked back through in the afternoon, nearly all were gone except those latecomers.
I was expecting to hear the overwhelming drone of their noise that night, but I guess that's something they do later in the season? Anyhow, we got a lot of photos of those (some really good ones, too), but I don't have them available to me at this location. I'll see if I can remember to upload one at some point.
They even had this little bowling "alley" tucked away deep in the basement. It's a mini bowling thing, the pins are set up by hand and both they and the balls are about half-size. I think the balls and pins were wooden, and everything was very, very old.....
I don't suppose you checked out the place I was born in Erie? I must make a trip back there.
The Church glass is beautiful. We love checking out old churches also. I think I will camp at the Hampton Inn or similar. Love the waffle makers.
For us, there were no fees for checked bags (one each), so that made it easier. Although, I did have to convince the agent at the counter in Baltimore that there was no fee. I even brought up the policy on their website, but by then another employee came over to rescue her, so it became a non-issue.
Gary, I'm going to have to guess that we did not (specifically) check out your birthplace! Though, I'm sure it is significant for that very reason.
And, that place where we stayed on the first night? Hampton Inn - love the waffle makers!