tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199848812024-03-04T23:28:29.236-08:00My Lefttist Commie-Liberal RantingsIt's not JUST about what I had for breakfast...The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.comBlogger1014125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-43590185458095936772019-06-17T11:29:00.001-07:002019-06-17T11:29:39.456-07:00Father's DayYesterday we went geo-hiking in the Noble (which I have been pretty consistently misspelling) Canyon area.<br />
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We found ten geocaches. It was a 4 mile round trip. <br />
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There was a lot of DG on the trail, at least the first part.<br />
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Here is a panorama from along the trail.<br />
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It wasn't too hot, just warm. There were LOTS of bugs, though! FLIES! And one tick.<br />
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We stopped at Jack In The Box on the way home to get dinner.<br />
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Thanks for reading!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-25216774372268202932019-06-09T21:11:00.001-07:002019-06-09T21:11:11.663-07:00Last ThursdayOn Thursday I went to Airplane Ridge in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park to hike up to the Airplane monument, a hike I had not been able to complete a couple of years ago.<br />
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I tried to take this picture of a pretty blue butterfly. It seems to have come out white.<br />
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I tried to take a picture of this pretty flower that has a bug in it. Well, at least my boots are in focus!<br />
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I can see my vehicle down there!<br />
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This is at the airplane monument. That old engine is full of bees!<br />
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This is the kind of stream crossing I like!<br />
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I stepped right over a little snake. I think he was as surprised as I was. He just lay there for a while.<br />
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Then he took off!<br />
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There were a lot of pretty flowers along parts of the trail.<br />
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My intermittently reoccurring rash reoccurred.<br />
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I walked about 4.5 miles. Boy, were my feet tired!<br />
I, for the first time, got to figure out what to do when there are no "facilities" on the trail. I learned I need to upgrade my personal hygiene kit...<br />
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Today, Sunday, I took a picture of my planes (See how that ties it in to the rest of the post?). The one on the right I purchased at Handyman quite a few years ago, as they closed down sometime around 1986. The Handyman price tag looks like $6.68 to me. I think I bought it when I was a teen. Maybe not.<br />
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Thanks for reading!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-48938976738874170022019-01-06T19:45:00.001-08:002019-01-06T19:45:16.312-08:00A Few Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Also on the third, I broke out the big ol' tinner's snips to make short work of that nasty sharp clear packaging. Much as I love my Henckels...<br />
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On January 6 we went up to Mt. Palomar. It was pretty clear most of the way up, but foggy in spots on the way down. This is a view looking DOWN (not UP!) from the Gregory Pacheco memorial turnout.<br />
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The fog was constantly shifting!<br />
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Our co-pilot taking a selfie!<br />
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No caches found today, totally out of cell range!<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-67113931986405248202018-12-29T18:25:00.001-08:002018-12-29T18:25:36.192-08:00BACK TO PENNY PINESOn the 28th (a Friday) I made the decision to head to the mountains to try a little geocaching in the snow, so as to bond with my northern geo-brethren a bit more. I headed to Penny Pines as I had decided to go up that one hill that Matt and I had decided NOT to go up a couple of weeks ago.<br />
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I had seen some snow from the vehicle as I drove into the area, and shot a little video of it. Maybe I'll stick it in here. It's already on the Fb.<br />
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This was the first snow I saw while hiking.<br />
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I prepared for the cold by wearing, for the first time, some long underwear I purchased over a year ago. I forgot to bring any warm gloves, so I wore my orange mechanic's glove. Better than nothing! I wore my blue Turtle Fur hat, of course.<br />
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This is a geocache that was on top of the one hill, where there wasn't any snow, except for this tiny little bit.<br />
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Here is a panorama from the peak of that one hill. You can see the desert out there, and the Sunset Highway off to one side.<br />
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After coming down from that one hill I got in the vehicle and drove down the Highway a bit to the next pull-out. From there I hiked up the Garnet Peak trail for a ways. Finding a couple of caches, and some patches of snow.<br />
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I thought this was a pretty picture, except for my glove there.<br />
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This is on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) looking down onto the desert below. A LONG way below.<br />
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I did not go up Garnet Peak, instead I went to a lower peak nearby where there was a cache. Here is the log book, blurred, held up with Garnet Peak in the background.<br />
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And then I headed home via Cuyamaca highway.<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-57177124858793573812018-12-18T20:19:00.000-08:002018-12-18T20:20:28.639-08:00ON THE PCT WHERE IT CROSSES KITCHEN CREEK ROADMonday we went out to Kitchen Creek Road and parked right where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses. There is a bit of parking lot, and it is a very popular spot on the weekend.<br />
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You can see the 8 freeway way back there. Also, the Cameron fire station. I took this picture for the rock formations, but they do not show up so well.<br />
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We called this one "The Castle".<br />
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This is a close up of one of the rock formations.<br />
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Here is a panorama from one point on the trail.<br />
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That is all for that, but I found this while looking at Google maps in the Miramar area.<br />
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Thanks for reading!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-87831739092956178712018-12-16T13:27:00.003-08:002018-12-16T13:40:51.990-08:00OUT IN PENNY PINES YESTERDAYWe went up to the Penny Pines area in Mt. Laguna yesterday. Hiking a bit a long the Pacific Crest Trail and doing some geocaching, too.<br />
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You can see the Salton Sea out there in the haze from this spot.<br />
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I took several pictures of the Moon up there in the sky.<br />
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We decided that is probably Garnet peak over there. We will try that one another day!<br />
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It's a long long way down to the desert. That is the S2 down there.<br />
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There's that desert again! And there's that Salton Sea again!<br />
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I noticed this quartz in chalk formation, it just seemed odd.<br />
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My new Panavise. I always wanted one.The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-17364886608402857192018-04-27T19:35:00.004-07:002018-04-27T19:35:38.041-07:00Trekking the marshWe went to Torrey Pines State Natural Preserve today, and walked the little-known (to me!) Marsh Trail, from Sorrento Valley to Torrey Pines Road. And back again. It's pretty flat, but I was still tired at the end. Good thing I wasn't driving!<br />
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Here are some of the things we saw!<br />
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The Coaster heading north!<br />
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It must be high tide! I don't know what that device with the antenna does. Water levels? You can see the highway bridge towards the center, and the Torrey Pines Extension to the far right.<br />
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I took some pictures of bumblebees, but the bees were not visible. It is a mystery to me, too!<br />
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Here we have a crab.<br />
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And here we have the crab being crabby. Actually, this picture was taken before the previous one. I guess he calmed down.<br />
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This is looking up towards a high point of Torrey Pine Road. I thought the rock formations were interesting.<br />
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Thanks for reading!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-68568910508219344532018-04-19T12:34:00.002-07:002018-04-19T12:34:25.698-07:00WhoopsieThe "Singing In The Rain" post was supposed to be on the My Bicycle Musings blog. I am too lazy to fix it. So I made a link on THAT blog to come to THIS blog if they want to see it. Good enough for the likes of them!<br />
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I have maybe three months of pics I haven't been keeping up with. Should I just post them all on here, with very little commentary? Or just let you wander around the file folders after I've uploaded them?<br />
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Well, here is a panorama from yesterday, April 18th, showing the view from not quite all the way to the peak of Van Dam Peak (which I keep call Van Dam Mountain...), which overlooks the Sabre Springs. <br />
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The panorama was taken at bout 850 feet of elevation. The peak is 1,038 as far as I can figure out. We really were not that close, and I was WAY pooped, so we turned around and went off to have lunch. Oddly, I felt pretty fine on the way back down!<br />
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Thanks for reading!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-48726308989459935942018-04-19T12:10:00.001-07:002018-04-19T12:10:10.025-07:00Singing In The RainWell, not singing, more of a grumbling.<br />
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I rode 4.6 miles (round trip) today, in a light rain, to replace a geocache. 'Cause that is the kind of guy I am.!<br />
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I got a bit wet, and my legs were kinda pink when I got home. I took a warm shower and I feel all right.<br />
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A couple of obligatory selfies at the cache GZ.<br />
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Well, there you have it, my first post here in a long time. Thanks for your patience!<br />
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January 4, 2018<br />
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Utilizing Dr. Pat Abbott's new book about the geology of Mission Trails Regional Park, we went exploring, look at rocks with new eyes. These very interesting rocks were mentioned in the book, and are not IN MTRP, but instead are on Navajo Road.<br />
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January 5, 2018<br />
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Today I went geocaching in that canyon south of H Street in Chula Vista. There is actually water in the crick right now! Here are a few pictures I took, mostly at a particular spot with soothing riparian sounds.<br />
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Trying to get a good angle on the creek.<br />
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Well, that's not TOO bad. Too many tumbleweeds, though!<br />
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Zoomed in on the creek by the tumbleweeds.<br />
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This is a few feet east of the tumbleweeds.<br />
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Looks like the water is undercutting the bank. I can't tell what is reflection and what is not.<br />
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Is that a trail over there? I don't think I'd care to walk on that!<br />
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January 7, 2018<br />
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I went for my first "ride" of the New Year, down to the Costco area to check on something.<br />
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Well, there we have some variegated leaves on some mysterious plant.<br />
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Upon arriving at home I found I traveled a whole 3.35 miles. Wow!<br />
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January 8, 2018<br />
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On an impulse I drove out to Santee to find a puzzle geocache I had solved, and then on even more of an impulse I headed to Poway, of all places, to find another puzzle geocache I had solved, and to not find one, too. It started drizzling while I was exploring the Poway Creek bank.<br />
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January 9, 2018<br />
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We had some rain and some wind the past few days. Four palm fronds fell from the accursed (I shoulda killed it when it was only five feet tall) palm tree.<br />
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The jade plant is flowering.<br />
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Lots of dead ivy (I hates it!) on the accursed palm tree. Hey, there's my weather station!<br />
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The orchids, well, at least one of them, have a flower going on.<br />
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Is it windy? Looks windy!<br />
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January 11, 2018<br />
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Lots of noise today as these two helicopters flew around the area, covering a police chase, it turned out.<br />
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January 12, 2018<br />
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We went to the Marshal South house in Anza Borrego State Park, this is a sundial there.<br />
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The remains of the adobe house. The adobe is not protected by plaster, so it is melting when it rains.<br />
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Here is a panorama I took on the hike returning to the car.<br />
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January 13, 2018<br />
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This evening we were looking all over for the mayonnaise. I SWORE I had put it back into the refrigerator, why oh why is it not there, or AT LEAST on the counter. My daughter finally suggested we check here.<br />
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These pics have no date, so I'm not sure when they were taken. This is a ham radio antenna I saw while driving back from Windmill Farms. I took this image from Google Streetview. That crooked antenna element, does that throw off the radiation pattern?<br />
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I saw this stuff at Windmill Farms, but the image is from Amazon.com. I wonder how it works?<br />
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I saw this image in a forum post on Facebook. It is of a flooded El Estero lake in Monterey, California. Unfortunately, it is not dated, but I would say 1940s or early 50s, as<a href="https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/category/dennis-the-menace-playground/" target="_blank"> Dennis the Menace Playground</a> (opened 1956) doesn't seem to be built yet. Or it's under water!<br />
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Another <a href="https://www.southbayriders.com/forums/threads/125941/" target="_blank">link to Dennis the Menace Playground</a>, 'cause it was so cool.<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-16424054647778589272018-01-03T12:49:00.002-08:002018-01-03T12:49:24.781-08:00New YearIt's 2018, a time fresh new start. With maybe timely posts?<br />
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<b>January 1st</b><br />
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I went geocaching on New Year's Day, imagine that. Finally got this one, after reading something that gave me an idea on where I could check. This was a while ago, and I finally got up here on a quiet day.<br />
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Sort of high above La Jolla. You could hear the ocean, all the way up here!<br />
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A panorama from the ridge. You can see my vehicle parked down there.<br />
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<b>January 2nd</b><br />
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I bought a new memory card for my camera. Getting it out of the packaging was quite a chore. I pretty much destroyed the container. I hope the card works!!<br />
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Well, here's a picture of the parking garage, so I guess it works fine.<br />
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I went to Office Depot afterwards. I calculated that it would cost me twenty-five bucks for four rolls of Scotch tape and a touch screen stylus. So I noped right out of there. I tried WalMart. I got some generic tape there, but their $2.98 stylus looked kind of iffy. Even <u>I</u> don't need a stylus with a laser pointer.<br />
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Coming back to the vehicle I notice a plastic part hanging down.<br />
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I took a picture of the other side, for comparison purposes. Yup, there is some kind of plastic fastener missing.<br />
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While I was down there I took a picture of the whatever-that-light-is-called. Should it have a shield over it? I don't know.<br />
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Well, that's all I got. You got any questions?<br />
<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-13608364188171694282017-12-31T20:18:00.000-08:002018-01-03T12:07:18.620-08:00Better Late Than Never, Eh?Well, all I can say is that December certainly zoomed by! Here is all the stuff I didn't post!<br />
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This one is actually from <b>November</b>, it's a floor outlet in Parkway Plaza mall. Needs a cover, and some TLC on the cord.<br />
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<b>December 7th</b><br />
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Parrots in the trees while I was waling around in La Mesa.<br />
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Selfie with Turtle Fur hat, to make some point on the internet...<br />
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A nostalgia post for Facebook, it's the notorious Bat Girl in Grantville!<br />
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<b>December 8th</b><br />
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Muffler Man in Escondido.<br />
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<b>December 9th</b><br />
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Got my replacement after a recall. Excellent organization, and very prompt!<br />
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<b>December 10th</b><br />
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Selfie with book, to illustrate some point on the internet.<br />
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<b>December 12th</b><br />
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Out of sequence, 'cause I went to the same place on two sequential days. I am all mixed up!<br />
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<b>December 11th</b><br />
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Didn't find (DNF) the cache, did find a bird's nest. Two pics.<br />
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Panorma with Mt. Miguel to the left, Elevator Rd. and environs to the right.<br />
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<b>December 12th</b><br />
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Panorama on the next day, with lots of sun glare!<br />
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<b>December 11th</b><br />
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After my did not find I went on to some other caches in the area. Here I am photographing the inside of a storm drain to see if the cache is in there. It is not. It was somewhere else, in plain sight.<br />
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<b>December 12th </b><br />
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Back on the 12th, after I DID find the cache I didn't find on the 11th, I went down to Fiesta Island, at least to start things off. Found this piece of trash that someone couldn't be bothered to toss in the trash. Well, neither did I, so there is that...<br />
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I checked on my cache that someone reported missing. I didn't find it either. All I found was this piece of paper I had put in there. I guess someone removed it! So I replaced it!<br />
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I took a picture of every cache I found this day, something I never do. And I'm posting them. I doubt that anyone will use the pics to FIND those caches. I hope!<br />
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A very pretty day, with birds!<br />
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Whoops, this is the right date, but out of sequence. It's the cache that started the day, the one I couldn't find on the 11th. It's missing its top. I put a big rock on top to shed water. I hope it works!<br />
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I left some stickers in one cache.<br />
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I had DNFed this one before. Found it this time!<br />
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Still <b>December 12th</b>!! This isn't were the cache was, but it looked like a likely spot.<br />
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This looks like a repeat of an earlier pic. Well, enjoy it. This one is not so cropped, I guess.<br />
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This is where the one before the last one turned out to be. I found it on the way back to the vehicle.<br />
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I drove the truck over to a new spot, and walk a few hundred feet to get this one.<br />
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Then I drove the truck back, parked, and found THIS one!<br />
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I went back to the truck and took this selfie out the vehicle window...then I went home.<br />
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<b>December 13th (Wednesday)</b><br />
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This was some not-quite-the-end-of-the-year preview I was reminded to look at. I'll have to get the up-to-date one and publish it. It only has a couple more books, though.<br />
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<b>December 14th</b><br />
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I got an encouraging tip on this one, in Bonita. Back in there somewhere. I DNFed it before, but I found it this time!<br />
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<b>December 15th</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">This path leads through the dark and mysterious forest. Who knows what lurks there!</span><br />
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<b>December 19th</b><br />
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A view from the Flume Trail, or thereabouts.<br />
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A tube of Ambroid glue, rather used. I was discussing glues with my dentist. I thought I'd take a picture of my tube of Goo. I couldn't find it, so you get this.<br />
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A tube of Ambroid glue, rather unused. A <a href="http://www.ottertooth.com/Canoe_pages/ambroid.htm" target="_blank">little history</a> I ran across on the net.<br />
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A panorama from the Flume Trial in Lakeside. Well, actually it is rather higher up than the Flume Trial, it is on the dirt road heading up the hangliding area.<br />
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<b>December 21st</b><br />
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What I was reading. <br />
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<b>December 27th</b><br />
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Someone asked me if I knew what one of these were. I replied with a picture of mine. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_can_opener" target="_blank">Wikipedia article</a>.<br />
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December 29th<br />
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I thought it looked like what might be the Emerald City out there, but it wasn't green, so I badly 'shopped it to be green.<br />
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Glasses for to celebrate the New Year? What?<br />
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A slightly different view, but it looks sort of green without my help.<br />
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A panorama with too much sun. I was south of H St. in Chula Vista for these.<br />
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The former owner of this shirt apparently did not practice what they preached.<br />
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Most of the trail was pretty plain, but this section was cozy with trees.<br />
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There was even a bench. I wish there were more benches on trail!<br />
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And a light, for those evening bike rides, I guess.<br />
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This is the last picture for this day, but it illustrates the beginning of trail. I totally walked right past this and didn't realize it for a hundred feed, when the GPSr was pointing behind me.<br />
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<b>December 30th</b><br />
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Camellia flowers.<br />
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Selfie with me and Robbie.<br />
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Selfie with me, Leia, and Robbie back there.<br />
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Me and Leia.<br />
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Leia and my knee.<br />
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I THINK it's my knee.<br />
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<b>December 31st</b><br />
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Where's the track? <br />
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Trolley museum in National City.<br />
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Bayside Park north, in Chula Vista, looking north.<br />
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I left a trackable at a geocache there. This amusing log appeared on the trackable's web page.<br />
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And, a panorama I took there.<br />
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This is at Finney Overlook, behind Finney Elementary, in Otay Valley Regional Park. Very cool spot, nice view!<br />
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Lastly, this is a spot in Independence Park, south of H St. in Chula Vista. What happened to the trail I came in on?<br />
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<b>Misc. Dates!</b><br />
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My book reading numbers, December 2017 is short by two.<br />
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Saw this on the internet, it amused me. Facebook needs that choice!<br />
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There used to be a fun hobby shop in La Mesa. I found this picture on the internet.<br />
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It's winter in San Diego. I put on my winter shirt, inspired by this post on reddit.<br />
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I thought this was pretty funny. Wish <u>I</u> had made it!<br />
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And now for January...<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-12659123617846639732017-11-30T11:44:00.002-08:002017-11-30T11:44:41.004-08:00Oh, No, Tomorrow Starts December!And I haven't even STARTED November! Well, here goes:<br />
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<b>Barker Valley Spur Trail (Nov. 3, 2017)</b><br />
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This was near the glider port by Warner Springs.<br />
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View of Lake Henshaw, somewhere back there.<br />
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To complete the panoramic circle.<br />
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<b>Brown Field (Nov. 4, 2017)</b><br />
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Just driving past the airport on the way to the junk yards.<br />
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Invisible Hummingbird. I ran back for the camera, but he had disappeared. This picture should be AFTER the panorama of the Three Rangers, below.<br />
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<b>Three Rangers (Nov. 4, 2017)</b><br />
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<b>Cat at doctor's office (Nov. 8, 2017) </b><br />
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This cat was nosing around that tire for quite a while.<br />
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<b>Out on El Tae Road the trail was closed (Nov. 9, 2017)</b><br />
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Later, in La Mesa, I feigned interest in a tree until a muggle passed by and I could get the geocache.<br />
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View of where we parked (Selfie)<br />
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We were on a hike with a group, and I had an energy problem, or something, so we did not complete the hike. We did find some geocaches on the way back down, though. And, and one of those caches...<br />
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Giant ants! It's THEM!!!!<br />
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<b>Base of Iron Mountain (Nov. 14, 2017)</b><br />
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A spur of the moment decision sent me over to Iron Mountain, where there were like, ten cars, maybe. I walked around the trail to the base, found several geocaches, didn't find one, and headed back to the vehicle before it got dark.<br />
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Repositioned myself, and zoomed in a bit.<br />
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Later, at home, I staged this pic, to the amusement of several.<br />
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<b>Hunte Parkway In Eastlake (Nov. 18, 2017)</b><br />
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Someone was mesmerized by the view?<br />
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<b>In Rural Poway (Nov. 19, 2017)</b><br />
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We made our way to the remains of an old house, over a hundred years old, I believe. All that is left is the chimney and the basement.<br />
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So here are two pic of the chimney.<br />
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A view of a hill of the top of the basement wall.<br />
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In the ruins of a nearby outbuilding there was a mason's old tool. (EDIT: Corrected the grammar after a comment from the peanut gallery.)<br />
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Geocache in a tree. Fortunately, a low tree.<br />
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I changed my desktop picture to this one of Hank. It cheers me immensely. You can <a href="https://www.mybestfriendhank.com/" target="_blank">read about Hank on his website</a>. I think there is a Facebook page, too.<br />
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<b>Balboa Park (Nov. 24, 2017)</b><br />
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Phillip and I at Balboa Park. We found some geocaches, I think I may have convinced him he needs a smart phone...<br />
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I took this picture of my old old paint bottles to make some point on the internet.<br />
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<b>Sycamore Preserve (Nov. 28, 2017)</b><br />
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Our route through the preserve, and back again. Looks like we walked 5.73 miles! Wow!<br />
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Obligatory selfie at the crossing. We were lucky to find it, I would have missed it completely, even though there was a geocache at the trailhead, naming the crossing, and I had found it way back in 2010...<br />
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It even had a nameplate!<br />
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View of the crossing without my mug.<br />
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I do not understand how clothing appears in the bushes in a preserve, one would have to toss it over the fence a good distance. Just, weird!<br />
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Some big globs at Shadow Hills Park.<br />
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Some sort of sap leakage?<br />
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While I was in Santee I filled up the vehicle with gasoline. It took 11.1786 gallons, at $ 3.059/gallon, for a total cost of $ 34.19.<br />
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The odometer reading at fill-up was 43,122 miles. The trip odometer was 297.1, so my calculated gas mileage from the previous fill is: 26.6 MPG? No, I don't think so!<br />
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That looks like it for November, unless I manage to do SOMETHING today!<br />
<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-40715048860591666692017-11-30T10:31:00.003-08:002017-11-30T10:31:47.176-08:00October Catch-up!My internet speed<br />
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My friend and I took a drive in his new Mustang up to the mountain road around Palomar, and visited the big telescope.<br />
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I was looking at a town in Texas that a friend was visiting and saw this nifty B&B with an assortment of "rooms" This is one of them.<br />
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We have a bird that comes and visits nearly every day, running into the mirrored windows, and pecking at his reflection, I guess. I haven't got a good pictures yet, but these I took on one morning visit.<br />
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Someone at the Queen Mary Geo Coinfest logged the trackable on my vehicle, and sent me this picture. Neat!<br />
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I polished up my Buck knife, with wax.<br />
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Well, that is about all for October, I guess!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-9535031425555125812017-10-23T10:37:00.002-07:002017-10-23T10:37:21.482-07:00Out In The WIlds At Pine ValleyWe went up to Pine Valley and found ourselves at the trailhead right about where that top smiley is. Lots of trucks and such with motorcycles and three-wheelers, as Pine Valley Road is an off-road vehicle approved, uh, road.<br />
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We started off down the trail to the left, which is NOT off-road vehicle approved. Although there were certainly tread tracks showing some had been there! We were passed by two guys with three friendly dogs along the way.<br />
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Some sections of the first leg were VERY steep, like steep stairs, really. Stairs with ruts and rocks!<br />
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At the end of the first leg, before we turned and headed east, I felt dizzy and sick. I ate and drank a bit, and felt better. But I felt very tired most of the way back, and stopped quite a several times to rest in the shade.<br />
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We found thirteen geocaches, didn't find one, and skipped three.<br />
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It was pretty fun (except for the dizzy & sick-felling parts!), and was a trail I have never been on before.<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-41751928950702092502017-10-15T20:01:00.000-07:002017-10-15T20:01:30.425-07:00The QM and Other StuffI was out geocaching the other day. I missed FTF (First To Find) by one, I was STF (I made that up).<br />
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Yet another selfie, this time at the "tower" in San Carlos that has been there since I was a kid.<br />
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A magazine cover with a favorite story from a favorite author. From my "collection".<br />
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At the Queen Mary in Long beach. Here we see some lifeboats on the starboard side.<br />
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Here we see them again, but now the passing boat is almost centered.<br />
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This is the ship's radio room. I talked to the volunteer who was manning the station for a while. They have a ham radio station that is active.<br />
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Quite a few of these pieces of equipment I have no idea what they do. I was told that the packet station was running on a Windows 98 computer.<br />
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This looks like the main CW operating position.<br />
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This life boat is on the port side, and seems to have levers that the occupants have to operate to make the boat go. I surmise.<br />
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Looking back along the port side towards the stern, a long line of lifeboats.<br />
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Behind the Queen Mary there is a cruise boat at their own dock, soon to be taking on passengers.<br />
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Some rocks of the jetty that surrounds the Queen Mary. The jetty was built with rocks quarried on Catalina Island.<br />
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The bow of the Queen Mary and the bow of the Russian submarine B-427 next door.<br />
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Long Beach viewed through cabin porthole.<br />
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Long Beach viewed through cabin porthole at night!!<br />
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Selfie with Long Beach viewed through...ahhh, forget it!!!<br />
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I don't know why some of these thumbnails are the wrong size. I DO know these pictures are somewhat out of order, due to me taking them with two devices, and the image numbers being out of sequence, thusly. <br />
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See, here, this picture should be back the jetty rocks one!<br />
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A panorama of the cabin I stayed in.<br />
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Here is the bathroom. Nice! It has an EXCELLENT flusher, and the room even has a fan. How come my bathroom at home doesn't have a fan, eh?<br />
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Driving home on Sunday Morning I stopped at the View Point. Seems a little foggy out there on the ocean.<br />
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I did some geocaches in Kearny Mesa on the way home. At one I found I had lost my pen. I retraced my steps to the previous cache, and there it was! Good thing I put that orange duct tape on it!<br />
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Oh, and here is some of the geo-SWAG I picked up at the geo-event on the Queen Mary.<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-71196258524452492312017-10-07T22:12:00.000-07:002017-10-07T22:12:19.968-07:00Mostly October, But Not Necessarily In Order<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>September 26th</b></div>
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What a bear on a train may look like. I made this for some article I saw on Fark about lost items found on British trains. No one was interested.<br />
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<b>September 27th</b></div>
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I finally got one of these stickers for my vehicle! I am SO happy!! <br />
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<b>September 24th</b></div>
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I posted this on FB in a pathetic response to some of the stuff I've seen on there.<br />
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I posted this on FB to amuse the folks. No one was amused.<br />
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<b>October 3rd</b></div>
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iPhone repair day. I have worked up the gumption to take the sucker apart.<br />
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I read a how-to article.<br />
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Here it is, all opened up. With the proper tools it is MUCH easier than I imagined.<br />
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The battery was incredible hard to get out. Apple uses these VERY sticky strips to make sure that battery ain't going no where, no how. I finally got it out, then...<br />
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I had to get the sticky strips out. Well, THAT, at least, was very easy.<br />
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The home button was not working, so I replaced the guts to that. It didn't work afterwards, either.<br />
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That OptiVisor does not work as well as it used to. Must be defective.<br />
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Ok, it's back together and it WORKS! Yeah!! Except for the home button, I found out later...<br />
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I took some photos to make sure the camera part still worked.<br />
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And that was that! Did I save any money? Nope! But I learned a bit (Pay someone else to do it!) and acquired some useful tools. More tweezers!<br />
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<b>October 4th</b></div>
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What we have here, for dessert, is chocolate pave.<br />
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<b>October 5th</b></div>
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Several pictures of the same piece of cake. <br />
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<b>October 7th</b></div>
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Graham crackers with peanut butter (crunchy, of course!), it fulfills a certain need.<br />
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It coming on Halloween time, and I saw these scary tomatoes at the store!<br />
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September 30</div>
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Out of order, but what do you care, eh? An edited StreetView image showing what the Pizza Palace on Fletcher Parkway may have looked like, back in the day.<br />
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<b>September or October, who can remember these things?</b></div>
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Here are a couple of Wizard Of Oz related images that I came across on the 'net and found amusing. <br />
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Thanks for reading!<br />
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<br /><br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-3370553963124506532017-10-02T17:59:00.001-07:002017-10-02T18:04:28.062-07:00I Got Gas AgainSeriously, you may not want to hear this, but I have had some serious cases of flatulence lately.<br />
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But I did fill up the tank this morning.<br />
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I spent $37.60 for 12.623 gallons with the odometer at 42,504 miles.<br />
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The trip-o-meter said 342.6 miles, and that would make the gas mileage 27.1 mpg, but believing that would cause me to doubt your sanity. So don't!!<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-86282138030877612782017-09-18T22:23:00.002-07:002017-09-18T22:23:26.209-07:00Another Week, Another PostMostly September, but one August that I forgot to post last month.<br />
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<b>Please remember these are all thumbnail images. The original hi-quality (well, larger, anyway!) images can be accessed by clicking on the thumbnail image. </b><br />
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August 17th<br />
I heard some banging around, and voices, so I went out side to see these guys up in the air!<br />
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Sept. 11th<br />
I got a free trackable number for participating in a geocaching event, so I put it on this old cell phone, and I shall send it out into the world. Some day. I printed the number and some identifying words on a piece of paper and slipped it behind the glass on the display. I did this after taking the picture. Just try to imagine it...<br />
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September 12th<br />
Someone posted something on Fark.com about their ham radio equipment, so I was gonna post about having an antenna in my bedroom, but I forgot which discussion it was in, so here's the picture. <br />
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I was looking at Google 3D Maps and it was VERY slow to load, and it looked amazing weird. Like after a hurricane, or a great disaster. So this is Pacific Grove, California.<br />
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September 12th<br />
Someone said they were visiting the Space Needle in Seattle, and so I had to post my stamps. <br />
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And I found my crummy stamp "tongs" out in the garage, and so had to take a couple of pictures trying use them. But they are VERY crummy!<br />
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Four-cent stamps, remember them?<br />
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September 14th<br />
I watch this person almost park their car. They bounced off the concrete curb there a couple of times, too.<br />
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September 16th<br />
I finally found the tweezers that I got in my grandfather's stuff when he passed away. I wonder if I can get them re-plated?<br />
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JUST before I found it, though, I ordered some more tweezers and other stuff to fix the cell phone. Or else break it completely!<br />
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September 18th<br />
I went geocaching after the oncologist visit today. I spotted these in a bush, but they were too crummy to take. Found the cache on the other side of the bush. Eventually.<br />
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When I got home the mailman came and delivered the stuff I ordered on Saturday. That's 48 hours later. Amazing!<br />
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Here we see the three tweezers and a drill index, full of tiny drills bits. I couldn't get the drill index open at this point.<br />
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Here is the replacement part for the Home button on the cell phone, with the tweezers' point for scale.<br />
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I finallly got the drill index open, so here it is, with one of my pin vices that holds the bits for drilling, and the obligatory tweezers for scale.<br />
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Thanks for reading!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-76012552809919901252017-09-09T20:26:00.001-07:002017-09-09T20:34:00.708-07:00Mostly SeptemberThis blog post is ALL about September. Except for this pic, which is from August, at a geocaching event. <br />
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We had QUITE a spell of warm weather when a tropical something moved through. I took several screen shots to document the horridity of it.<br />
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September 1st at 11:24 AM <br />
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It was pretty darn hot and humid, but I'm not QUITE sure it actually reached 114 here. No one else that anything QUITE that high. Close, but not QUITE.<br />
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September 1st at 1:38 PM. A little later than the next pic, but I'm too lazy to fix it! <br />
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September 3rd. Here we see the weather record for short period, showing the temperature drop as the rain level goes up.<br />
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Parking spaces for very short cars? I saw this geocaching, in Mission Valley-ish.<br />
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Removing the old carpets revealed this stuff stuck to the floor, quite securely. A LOT of work to remove it, not to mention all the staples and nails, some broken off.<br />
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Fortunately the bedroom had a lot LESS of it. Almost none. What a relief!<br />
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I walked around all morning Thursday with a touch-screen stylus stuck in my shoe. So THAT'S what that lump was!<br />
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A chain reaction collision at Los Primos. This car was unlucky enough to be behind a truck, and in front of the person who managed to push three vehicles into each other.<br />
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OK, I made this because someone re-posted something about sharks in hurricanes that was created at the same website, you can see the watermark. I can make fake news too!<br />
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The background is really a picture I took at Pt. Reyes a couple of years ago. It's foggy there.<br />
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I drove out to Mt. Otay today. My first time driving up there. I only realized the other day that it was even possible to drive up there. In a truck, anyway. If one had 4WD one's horizons, as it were, could expand even farther. Or further. I forget which.<br />
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I parked at Doghouse Junction (about 200 feet shy (vertically) of the summit) and walked around a bit, looking for three geocaches, and taking some pictures.<br />
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So here we see Lower Otay Lake. We can see the Pacific Ocean out there. Or we could, if it was a clear day.<br />
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This one is more to the south, towards Otay Mesa.<br />
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There are a LOT of antennas of here, in several locations.<br />
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I think that is the very peak up there. I did not go up there.<br />
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This is near a place called Doghouse Junction, but I can't find any information about either one.<br />
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These two pics show two of the many expressions I have when I can't find the geocache.<br />
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I found sixteen geocaches today, and didn't find four.<br />
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That is all I got for today! Thanks for reading!The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-58682636339011382902017-08-28T15:21:00.001-07:002017-08-28T15:21:29.669-07:00The Trip: Day SevenFrom St. George, Utah, to San Diego, California.<br />
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We stopped for some geocaching in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_River_Gorge" target="_blank">Virgin River Gorge</a>. <br />
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At the first cache there were lots of interesting rocks. If you don't like rocks, well, just skip this part!<br />
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To another cache we drove up a dirt road until Matt decided that maybe we ought to walk. It was pretty hot, but we made it to the cache area. We didn't find the cache, though. There were some small rock arches that were pretty neat. I didn't take any pictures of those. I took a picture of this, though.<br />
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We got through Las Vegas OK, but could see the clouds off in the distance. I believe we were over the border and into California when I took this picture.<br />
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The temperature dropped appreciably, down to the 70s, and we had some rain. And some lightning, off in the distance. Here is a still from the movie linked below, so you don't even have to watch it!<br />
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Oh, just watch it! I even edited out a couple of minutes of us just driving along waiting for some sparks. You're welcome! <a href="http://spintheearth.com/pershing123/images/2017/Aug/2017Aug23_ALittleLightning.mp4" target="_blank">Lightening movie</a>.<br />
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A not-very-deep lake has formed after the rain.<br />
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The heat came right back up. Still hot in Baker!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here we see a concrete arrow just peaking over the ridge line. This is the</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> arrow #13 on the LA to SLC path a mile or so from the Afton Road overpass near Dunn, California.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Link to excellent quadcopter video by elrojo14: <span class="LogText"><a href="https://youtu.be/2H_-ruVudec" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Los Angeles to Las Vegas Airway / Airmail #13 Concrete Arrow</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Link to a website: <a href="http://www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/States/ca/california.html" target="_blank">Arrows Across America -- California</a> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Link to a website: <a href="http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-and-the-u-s-airmail-beacon-system/" target="_blank">Concrete Arrows and the U.S. Airmail Beacon System</a> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The abandoned, sort-of, Lake DoloresRock-A-Hoola Water Park, or something, near Newberry Springs. </span></span><br />
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Link to Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Dolores_Waterpark" target="_blank">Lake Dolores Waterpark</a><br />
Link to website: <a href="http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20160305/owner-plans-to-revive-long-closed-lake-dolores" target="_blank">Owner Plans To Revive Long-Closed Lake Dolores</a> <br />
Link to website: <a href="http://newberryspringsinfo.com/Alliance/OasisThemePark.html" target="_blank">Reopening Lake Dolores Water Park Is Only A Wet Dream</a><br />
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We stopped at the Harvey House in Barstow, to explore a bit of railroading history.<br />
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We ended getting a bit of space exploration history and happenings at the <a href="https://www.gdscc.nasa.gov/?page_id=35" target="_blank">Goldstone DSN Visitor Center</a> inside on the second floor.<br />
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Whee, I'm in space!!<br />
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The guard said this one the original lamp, over a hundred years old. Deserves more than one picture!<br />
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Wikipedia link to information about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barstow_Harvey_House" target="_blank">Harvey House</a>: <br />
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Railroad cars that carry automobiles. <a href="http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=509197" target="_blank">Here's a link</a> to information about the car in the middle there.<br />
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Arizona & California RR business car.<br />
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Why is that tree there???<br />
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Somebody move that tree!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMFJC8_Arizona_California_RR_Passenger_Car_58" target="_blank">Link to listing on Waymarking.com</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.desertusa.com/dusablog/a-touch-of-class.html" target="_blank">Link to article including an interview with someone who rode on it</a><br />
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GE 44 ton diesel locomotive. I have a model of one of these, and it is yellow, too!<br />
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<a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM55CY_GE_44_ton_Switcher_Barstow_California" target="_blank">Link to listing at Waymarking.com</a><br />
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Santa Fe baggage car. It was so long we had to back WAY up to get it into frame! I really don't understand not having a reporting number on the car!<br />
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I don't know what you call this, but there it is.<br />
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<a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMFJCD_Santa_Fe_Baggage_Car" target="_blank">Link to listing at Waymarking.com</a><br />
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Dinner at Barstow Station Mall in the McDonalds. Link to <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/27618" target="_blank">Roadside America</a> page...<br />
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Driving down the 15 at Pala Mesa, the lights on the freeway coming down the grade were very pretty. Sadly, this is the best of ten pictures. One probably needs a tripod and a staple platform for this sort of thing.<br />
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Driving distance was about 449 miles.<br />
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Well, that's it for the Big Trip To The Eclipse. Thanks for reading!<br />
<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-52016933757130325752017-08-27T21:10:00.002-07:002017-08-31T20:57:09.349-07:00The Trip: Day SixSo, this day we traveled from Curlew Campground, Utah, all the way to St. George, Utah.<br />
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Contrail. At Curlew Campground, before we departed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I tried to get a picture of the gas price, but failed. This is the Snowville Flying J, in Utah.</span></span><br />
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We decided, after seeing a sign (or something) to make a detour to the Golden Spike Nation Historic Site. 'Cause, TRAINS! <br />
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We were driving down the highway when we saw a sign that said Rocket Museum (Or maybe Rocket Garden). We looked at each other. Greg came up on the radio. Yup, let's go!! Trains AND rockets, who could resist!<br />
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I liked the license plate frame on this car.<br />
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There's a geocache there. Two, actually. I didn't have any data service so I didn't know about either one. But this one I spotted. Not having read the cache description I didn't know one was supposed to wander the exhibits gathering clues to the combination of the padlock. Fortunately for me, the last person had not fastened it properly, so it just came open. I emailed the cache owner about when I got home. Excellent cache, I would like to say!<br />
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I forget what this one is. I had heard of a lot of these rockets so they were interesting to me. Each one had a placard telling all about it.<br />
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That big tube is a section of space shuttle solid fuel booster.<br />
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This was really helpful for figuring out when to go next!!<br />
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A couple of guys were painting stuff in the very very warm sun.<br />
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Tried to show the wasp nests my son noticed. You can just see the guy painting over there on the other side.<br />
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We made it to the Golden Spike Historic Spot next. It was air-conditioned, had clean restrooms, helpful folks, a nice store, and informative exhibits. There is a picnic area outside, too. I highly recommend it. <br />
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Greg at the spot.<br />
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Telegraph wires.<br />
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Closeup of harp-type switch stand.<br />
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Looking back towards the golden spike area.<br />
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GE 25-ton diesel. I figured out it was a GE <i>AFTER</i> I had already emailed the park service...<br />
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I believe Kelly would approve of this woodpile.<br />
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An old Montgomery Ward tool box! Can't telll if the picture if the picture is blurry, or the tool box is just old!<br />
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Peering through Jupiter to locomotive 119 where Greg and Matt are talking to the docent.<br />
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Oil cans.<br />
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The top of the crosshead on Jupiter.<br />
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Crosshead.<br />
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Matt is trying to get the engine house cat to face the camera. The engine house guys said the cat hasn't been around around for a while. All the girls visiting were quite taken with it.<br />
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TWICE on this trip a dragonfly would perch on Greg's car antenna!<br />
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The guys at the engine house said there was a broken rail that was keeping them from running the locomotives. This is it.<br />
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Another view.<br />
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A dust devil off in the distance. Two really.<br />
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This railroad crossing is where the broken rail is.<br />
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Several cars, including ours, tried to go out the in road.<br />
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This is where we ate lunch. Shady, but very warm today!<br />
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Visitor's center.<br />
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A panorama of the Golden Spike Visitor's Center area.<br />
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Another panorama of the Golden Spike Visitor's Center area.<br />
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We left the Visitor's Center to head down the road to the Spiral, but decided so many miles of dirt road was not something we wanted to do, so we headed back towards the highway.<br />
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We stopped here to take some pictures of plants. I took a picture of the gate. This is on 7200 N Road, the road from the Golden Spike National Historic Site.<br />
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A log-periodic antenna. It is entirely possible I called it a logarithmic antenna at the time... <br />
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Matt wanted a picture of the interesting uplift, I guess you would call it.<br />
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So I took a number of pictures, trying to get a good one.<br />
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Maybe without a billboard?<br />
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And here we are<br />
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Closeup with pole<br />
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Closeup without pole. How did I do that?<br />
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I hope it don't rain. Well, it did, a bit, but not too bad.<br />
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I forget why I took this picture.<br />
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<a href="http://utahstories.com/2013/12/billboard-nation-why-utah-is-being-overrun-by-billboards-and-distracting-ads/" target="_blank">Link to an article about the proliferation of billboards in Utah</a>. This image does not represent a good example of billboard pollution, but merely reminded me of it.<br />
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Well, that is blurry!<br />
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Matt commented on how pretty this mountain was, in the setting sun. I took a whole BUNCH of pics. This is the best one.<br />
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This is not the best one.<br />
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Neither is this one.<br />
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Nice rainbow!<br />
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The same rainbow, just few seconds later.<br />
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It's pacing us!!<br />
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Matt liked the view here, too, so I took a couple that are nearly identical.<br />
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Two motorcyclists on the wet road.<br />
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I just thought these two pictures were interesting.<br />
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Maybe I should put my glasses on?<br />
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I believe it was at the Flying J Travel Plaza in Beaver, Utah, that I glimpsed this GIANT BIRD, probably a ROC, swooping down, possibly upon some unwary traveler!!!<br />
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Or maybe it was on a trailer...<br />
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The distance of today's driving was approximately 437 miles.The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-73300205842883400052017-08-27T12:39:00.002-07:002017-08-31T20:56:39.079-07:00The Trip: Day FiveSo this is the big day, the day of the Eclipse. We got to get from Stone Reservoir/Curlew Campground to as close as we can get to the center of totality. The reports are that traffic is going to be brutal. We are monitoring the two meter linked repeaters and the RACES (I think) Emergency Operations Center frequency.<br />
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I just read on the Curlew Campground website that the water isn't potable at this time. Great, I drank some, and brushed my teeth with it. Now I'm gonna die! <i>EDIT: I called the ranger in Idaho and he said that the water system had been tested and was OK. He did not know why the water warning was still on the web site, and would check it out.</i><br />
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I am not sure of exactly which route we took. I was asleep most of the way. Hey, it was DARK when we left the campground!<br />
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Eventually we ended up in Rexburg, Idaho. A very nice little city of around 25, 484 (2010 Census) folks. <br />
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WARNING: You are gonna see a lot of pictures of airplanes. This park is right under the landing pattern.<br />
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Telescope, camera, two-meter HT. We are prepared!<br />
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Greg brought this canopy, and this was its maiden voyage. Went up real smooth!<br />
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It's not too crowded, but eventually all the parking spaces were filled.<br />
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I probably should have left some of these out.<br />
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They seemed so low that I just kept shooting picks, trying to show in an image what it felt like to be there. Never quite caught it, though.<br />
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This one looked a little different.<br />
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I shot a little video of an airplane landing. <a href="http://spintheearth.com/pershing123/images/2017/Aug/2017Aug21_RexbergIdaho_AirplaneLanding.mp4" target="_blank">Link to short movie of airplane landing</a>.<br />
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I'm not sure how well that works, using your Eclipse Glasses as a camera filter. Lots of people came over to check out our (and by "our", I mean Greg's) setup with his telescope and camera.<br />
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Greg and Matt had a lot of problems with getting the iPhone to work with the telescope, but eventually they prevailed. Greg had to keep adjusting the telescope as it wasn't tracking quite accurately. It has been a continuing problem, he said.<br />
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It's coming along nicely.<br />
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What's that, about fifty percent?<br />
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THIS airplane was taking off!<br />
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Getting closer to totality. I better tell you right now, I don't have any pictures the sun blocked out. I STILL waiting for the guys to post their pics...<br />
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Matt mentioned about the temperature dropping, so I took a quick pic of the thermometer across the street. It is not accurate, of course, but it's all we had!<br />
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It is gradually getting darker, but the camera is compensating so it really does not show.<br />
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I tried again for some darkness, but no joy.<br />
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Ain't that purty?<br />
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Almost there!<br />
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Well, that looks a little darker!<br />
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Greg is adjusting his camera.<br />
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I'm too lazy to check if I used the iPhone or the camera for these pics, but something is obviously lacking in my technique.<br />
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Sky is dark!<br />
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Sad pic.<br />
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This is totality!<br />
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Good thing the scientists are not depending on me for pictures~<br />
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I'M waiting for the temperature to come up, but they are looking at the eclipse.<br />
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There we go! It has dropped a bit, and probably is lagging.<br />
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A couple of hours after the eclipse we hit some geocaches. The one at the library we couldn't do because the library was closed for the eclipse! This one is Matt and me at at BYU Rexburg on a webcam. I am the green blob.<br />
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To avoid the traffic on I-15 we took the back roads. The next pictures are of Craters Of The Moon National Monument in Idaho.<br />
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Pretty desolate!<br />
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You can't walk out there, but if you drive to the visitor's center there is road through the park with trails you can go on. We didn't have time for that, but we did drive the loop.<br />
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Nature finds a way...<br />
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Oh, look, I learned how to zoom in a little...<br />
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And it's pretty darn HOT today, too!<br />
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It was about 175 miles from Curlew Campground to Rexburg, Idaho.<br />
It was about 323 miles from Rexburg to Curlew Campground.<br />
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<br />The Squeaky Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07328453966818701990noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19984881.post-49994765191609597492017-08-26T11:58:00.001-07:002017-08-26T11:58:26.227-07:00The Trip: Day ThreeOn Day Three Matt and I did a Scouting Expedition to the Sawtooth Mountains to see if we could find a campsite that was closer to the Path of Totality. We failed.<br />
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Before sunrise I took some pics of the area. Lots of noisy birds out there in them bushes.<br />
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Very pretty watching the sun come up, then, WHAM, laser beams in your eyes!<br />
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I had my tent on the concrete, mostly under the awning, until I noticed that the awning had wasps.<br />
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I am not sure what the "square" is for, but it is rocky and bumpy. Surely not for tents?<br />
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A bee really liked my yellow tent parts, and would NOT leave!<br />
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We drove up into the Sawtooth National Forest to look for campsites, but they were all filled, as far as we could see. We stopped right here, along the Salmon River, to stretch our legs. After I took the picture a fisherman came along and started casting his line.<br />
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We headed over to, and stopped at, Lower Stanley. We had passed the Stanley Museum, which seemed to have tents on its lawn. Huh. We turned around and went back to check it out. Sure enough, we could pitch a tent for twenty-five bucks a night. Three nights, two tents, one hundred and fifty dollars. No water. Portable toilets. Green grass (rocky and VERY HARD ground, as it turned out). OK, we went for it, everything else was FULL!! We paid our money, then set up one of the tents. Or rather, TRIED to set it up. The WIND kept collapsing it. It was ridiculous, so we called Greg (who was back at Curlew Campground, guarding our stuff) to tell him to stay there, we were coming back. Matt got a refund, and made a donation to the Museum for their trouble. 'Cause they were very nice and helpful, but it just wasn't going to work out.<br />
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Here is a ham radio antenna I noticed on a truck parked at the museum.<br />
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We headed back to Snowville (Utah) area along highway 75 here. I took pictures of the smokey views, the clouds, and possibly some snow.<br />
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Smokey!<br />
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Looks like the California highway 101 area.<br />
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Lenticular clouds?<br />
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Looks like pockets of snow in those mountains, but can it be?<br />
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That mountain looks familiar...<br />
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Now THAT is pretty lenticular!<br />
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I think I took this picture at the Galena Summit Overlook. That is the valley we came through in the previous pics.<br />
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That's just GOTTA be snow! Or a couple of giant water slide!<br />
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I didn't take any more pictures, but there was a lot of interesting stuff to see along the way. I would have liked to spend more time at the Stanley Museum. The town of Shoshone looked very historical, with its many old buildings.<br />
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I saw signs for West Magic. Sounds interesting! Also, lava caves, that would have been good. Another time, maybe!<br />
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The mileage for the day was around 246 miles each way, so that adds up to.... 492 miles, right? I am sure glad I wasn't driving! <br />
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