I’ve had a few admonishments for no blog posts over the last two days – sorry about that. I had an awful Internet connection which [gasp] I couldn’t debug, and couldn’t make work for me. So, I had to wait until tonight, when I’ve finally made it to Virginia (Lexington, VA, in the bottom of the state) with a mercifully good Internet connection, so as to update my photos and such.
Yesterday and today were a gorgeous change from the flatness of the midwest that we’ve had for the past few days, as we veered off of the Interstate to instead go on state roads through the Ohio River Valley.
They twist and turn and have great scenery along the way – from all of my various road trips, I’m real surprised that I haven’t yet been here.
I’m going to figure out a good way of depicting my trip through here so far, as I still haven’t found a good way to annotate a Flickr Map. So, I’ll leave the mapping to a future post, and for now leave you with this:
Kat snapped this one, what I thought was a pretty telling image that depicted how high the water was at the St. Louis waterfront by the Gateway Arch. (Generally, you can see much more of them) BTW, this is a statue of Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, pioneer explorers, and symbols of the beginning of the great western movement that sprang forth from St. Louis in the 1800’s.
I’ve just started loading all of my trip photos to date into my Flickr Account, now that I’m at a hotel with some zippety-quick wifi. I have to drive all day tomorrow, though, so I only got up through Las Vegas. But, you can see what I’ve got on the map here:
Sorry if some of you aren’t map fanatics like I am, but the whole geo-tagging of photos, and then browsing them with a map interface just does not get old with me.
We’re in Kansas right now, so I have a lot more photos to load up, but let me know if you liked these. My favorites so far are these two, both in San Francisco:
As we make our way across Utah and into Colorado, I’m letting Kat drive for a bit so I can take advantage of the fact that we’ve had Edge data service across most of eastern Utah. Lack of ANY service in Western Utah cost us our hotel reservation when we couldn’t call or message them that we were running late, and then a slimy fellow at the Budget in gave away our room. Anyhow, the scenery in the area overcame that slimebucket, thankfully.
After loading up my little Subaru with another thousand pounds of stuff in LA, Kat and I headed up today towards Vegas. We wanted to get further, but due to awful traffic, we only made it this far. And, as hotel wifi is an extra $14/night here at the Sahara, it’s yet another post from the iphone.
Took a nice walk around though, for a little late nite photo tour. Our hotel has a casino in it, and a monorail station out back. All of the pretty lights have me wishing again for a tripod for my Minolta!
Had a wonderful morning in San Francisco, pulling in to town at about 5am, just in time to get some rocking pics with my wide angle Minolta of the Bay Bridge at sunrise. Soon as I can, I will get them on flickr (I.e. When I’m back on my laptop on wifi, as I still haven’t found a real good flickr upload client I like for iphone.)
I’ve had a few admonishments for no blog posts over the last two days – sorry about that. I had an awful Internet connection which [gasp] I couldn’t debug, and couldn’t make work for me. So, I had to wait until tonight, when I’ve finally made it to Virginia (Lexington, VA, in the bottom of the state) with a mercifully good Internet connection, so as to update my photos and such. 
