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veronica_richNow that we've traveled some in the Midwest of America, let's head further south.
Several years ago, I went with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
a_silver_rose to Charleston, South Carolina, for a short vacation. Back then, you could still drive cheaper than you could fly, so we took an 18-hour (one way) road trip. Now I live in the mid-South, sort of.
Earlier this year, I had found a digital camera from years ago and finally figured out how to download the driver to my newer computer, allowing me to once again use the damn thing. So, as I was driving home from visiting relatives, I thought I would take a test shot here and there. Here, we come into Kentucky over the Ohio River, I believe it is.
(Couldn't resist, mates ...)
Going through Nashville ... and no, you don't get better photos because I was driving alone and I do have to devote a few brain cells to not weaving into the guy driving beside me while on the highway.
Now, on to the more scenic areas:
I took this photo 3-4 years ago at Deal's Gap, Tennessee. It's at one end of a 13-mile driving course comprised of more than 300 hairpin turns (meaning, you can't go over about 30 mph at TOP speed) called the Dragon's Tail. It's a big visitor spot for motorcyclists and Mazda Miata enthusiasts to come drive on a regular basis, and they even have annual festivals and such.
Who is that hopping up and down like a bunny rabbit on speed, on the top of some of the fort bunkers we found in Charleston? (The upper one is Fort Sumter; the lower one, I can't remember, but maybea_silver_rose can if she reads this.)
While in Charleston, one of our nighttime activities was to go on a 2-hour "ghost tour" of the city, where you follow around this guide who tells you all the good juicy stories of spectres haunting the buildings and cemeteries there. This is one of the cemeteries we were in, thata_silver_rose made me go back to the next day.
I don't remember the name of the plantation, but it's where part of "North and South" the miniseries was filmed. Below is another, better photo of the tree-lined grove along which the carriages would have clopped. Many of these trees were planted by the original plantation owner's son upwards of 200 years or so ago.
There's an outdoor market in downtown Charleston where various wares are made and sold, including this booth of baskets. I have a thing about perspective in photography and this just sort of presented itself.
There's a LOT more photos I didn't post of my trip in this journal entry, but that's OK. I have other stuff I'll throw up in the next few days, from other places. I want to take this opportunity to tag other people to do something like this in their own LJs, then maybe post the link as a comment here so I can go look at them (and other visitors to my LJ can do the same).
Post your road trips! Weird places! Unusual people! Fish-eating plastic dinosaurs! Farmers' markets! The world's second largest ball of twine! Superman statues!
Several years ago, I went with
a_silver_rose to Charleston, South Carolina, for a short vacation. Back then, you could still drive cheaper than you could fly, so we took an 18-hour (one way) road trip. Now I live in the mid-South, sort of.Earlier this year, I had found a digital camera from years ago and finally figured out how to download the driver to my newer computer, allowing me to once again use the damn thing. So, as I was driving home from visiting relatives, I thought I would take a test shot here and there. Here, we come into Kentucky over the Ohio River, I believe it is.
(Couldn't resist, mates ...)
Going through Nashville ... and no, you don't get better photos because I was driving alone and I do have to devote a few brain cells to not weaving into the guy driving beside me while on the highway.
Now, on to the more scenic areas:
I took this photo 3-4 years ago at Deal's Gap, Tennessee. It's at one end of a 13-mile driving course comprised of more than 300 hairpin turns (meaning, you can't go over about 30 mph at TOP speed) called the Dragon's Tail. It's a big visitor spot for motorcyclists and Mazda Miata enthusiasts to come drive on a regular basis, and they even have annual festivals and such.
Who is that hopping up and down like a bunny rabbit on speed, on the top of some of the fort bunkers we found in Charleston? (The upper one is Fort Sumter; the lower one, I can't remember, but maybe
a_silver_rose can if she reads this.)While in Charleston, one of our nighttime activities was to go on a 2-hour "ghost tour" of the city, where you follow around this guide who tells you all the good juicy stories of spectres haunting the buildings and cemeteries there. This is one of the cemeteries we were in, that
a_silver_rose made me go back to the next day.I don't remember the name of the plantation, but it's where part of "North and South" the miniseries was filmed. Below is another, better photo of the tree-lined grove along which the carriages would have clopped. Many of these trees were planted by the original plantation owner's son upwards of 200 years or so ago.
There's an outdoor market in downtown Charleston where various wares are made and sold, including this booth of baskets. I have a thing about perspective in photography and this just sort of presented itself.
There's a LOT more photos I didn't post of my trip in this journal entry, but that's OK. I have other stuff I'll throw up in the next few days, from other places. I want to take this opportunity to tag other people to do something like this in their own LJs, then maybe post the link as a comment here so I can go look at them (and other visitors to my LJ can do the same).
Post your road trips! Weird places! Unusual people! Fish-eating plastic dinosaurs! Farmers' markets! The world's second largest ball of twine! Superman statues!
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Date: 2005-10-22 11:33 pm (UTC)Anyway, some of my better pictures are here in no particular order:
http://wichetty.blogspot.com/
and with hardly sufficient information presented with them. *shrug*
And um.... *looks at ground, scuffs shoe in dirt* when do you suppose we'll see another installment of Contradictions, eh? Not that road trip pictures aren't wonderful, you understand. But it seems to me we were just getting to the...meat....of it, so to speak. And we haven't seen anything since. *grin*
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Date: 2005-10-23 12:08 am (UTC)(A few more showings of "Elizabethtown" wouldn't hurt, either. Oh, that kissing. I need to find a patron like a fanfic porn Medici to pay for my movie tickets ...)
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Date: 2005-10-23 12:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-23 12:19 am (UTC)It's the chin in those kisses. Well, that and the lips being turned inside out for the tongue, but definitely the chin.
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Date: 2005-10-23 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-23 12:31 am (UTC)But yeah, the tx sunrise is my fav from the whole trip, and it still doesn't do justice to what the sky actually looked like that morning. omg.
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Date: 2005-10-23 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-23 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-23 12:17 am (UTC)You ever want to go to Etown, let me know. I'll meet you there, I'm only a few hours away.
God, why did you have to bring up THAT scene? Now I want to see the damn movie again!
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Date: 2005-10-23 01:15 am (UTC)- Silver Rose (one of these days I have to put some of my Charleston pics up, to, and Archon 29, Archon 28 . . .)
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Date: 2005-10-23 04:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 01:42 pm (UTC)- Silver Rose
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Date: 2005-10-23 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-23 04:33 am (UTC)Is it abnormal to WANT to go back and see the same movie for the *counts* fourth time in a little over a week? I find faults with it ... yet I love it. I really do.
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Date: 2005-10-23 04:45 am (UTC)No, it is not abnormal. When "Titanic" was in theaters, I saw it 7 times in about 3 weeks, until my parents put their collective foot down and stopped it. I want to see "Etown" again (second time), but have no one to see it with until next weekend. I guess I can wait... For now, writing fic will sustain me. LOL
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Date: 2005-10-23 05:18 am (UTC)I went to see "Titanic" a few times, too - mainly to take my 14-year-old sister. LOL. I always drank a big soda and never had to leave to go to the bathroom during, though!
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Date: 2005-10-23 11:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, I always had to pee during "Titanic," but I chalk that up to the kidney stones I had removed 2 days before the movie opened.