Weekly Update: January 17, 2018

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Week Two of the big sprint across the country continued in earnest, taking me the last third of the way from Louisiana to northern Florida. Read on for the deets. Wed night: Bayou Segnette State Park in Louisiana was just south of the action in New Orleans so it was easy to hop on a passenger ferry that dropped me a short walk away from the French Quarter. Had to get my beignets! Thursday morning, after surviving the drive out of New Orleans, I stopped at the Infinity Science Center, next to NASA’s Stennis Space Center just over the state…

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Made it to Florida

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It’s my first full day in Florida as an almost-domiciled-here person, so I did a little sightseeing to get to know my new state. The canoe and kayak area at this park looked lovely… … until I saw the sign warning that alligators have been spotted here. Uh, no thanks on that kayak trip, guys. The sun was out this morning after a big rainstorm overnight, but by noon, the temperatures were dropping and the clouds were rolling in. Before it got too cold (OK, it was down to 45F and I think that is cold considering I am in…

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Weekly Update: Jan 10, 2018

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Things are moving along in my trip from California to Florida. This week, I stayed in five different places and learned that Texas is a freaking huge state. And that there are at least six different ways to get anywhere, depending on how long you want to take. I usually opted for a combination of fast driving (interstate highways) some of the time, and scenic drives (back roads, like Farm Market and County roads) for the rest. Wed night: Fort Stockton. I was originally going to camp out at the local Walmart in town, but temps predicted to be below…

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Sunday Serenity: Sound

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After five hours in the car, driving across the middle of Texas, the last sound I wanted to hear was traffic after I pulled into my campsite at Galveston Island State Park. So I walked away from the road and out onto the beach. Ah, the Gulf Coast is glorious, even when the sun is well-hidden behind the clouds. The waves are endless and they create a natural noise that drowns out everything else. These two old men passed me, the sounds of a lively conversation reaching me over the surf. I loved the image of them so much I…

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Black and White

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It’s kind of a bleak weather weekend for many people in the US: cold, snow, and more cold. It’s warmed up in Texas, hitting 50F as I walked around Canyon Lake today. The drowned trees (this is a Corps of Engineers dammed lake) fascinated me and so that’s what I had fun with today, both in the taking and in the post-processing. That old-school Minolta lens I’ve been using has a much smaller field than the wide-angle I’m used to, so learning to compose shots within its field of view has been an interesting set of lessons the last month…

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