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Underground

These glass squares (discolored to purple by the weak Seattle sun) are set in the sidewalks of downtown Seattle.  They provided light down to the cavernous underground tunnels that lie under Pioneer Square.Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour starts with the ominous … Continue reading

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Honeybee

I reconnected with my friend Lisa on this trip after not seeing her in a decade in a half.  But in Seattle, I was able to have lunch with my old friend Melissa who I probably haven’t seen in over … Continue reading

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Authentic

This was the restaurant attached to the Ramada in Tukwila where I stayed when I was visiting friends in Seattle. “O’Beer” is a family name, right?  This the O’Beer family’s pub, passed down from father to son, right?  Generations of … Continue reading

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Lodge

Don’t think I’m going to finally get a chance to stay at the Timberline Lodge in northern Oregon, but I did stay at this nice lodge on Mt. Ashland in southern Oregon.  Just wish the skies weren’t so clear.  Yuck.

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Northbound

Having completed the CA/NV/UT/CO/KS/MO/IA/IL/IN/MI/Ont/NY/PA/DE/MD/VA/WV/NC/TN/AR/OK/TX/NM/AZ/CA leg of my road trip, I’m ready to continue northward for the CA/OR/WA/OR/CA leg.

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World

When I’m home, this is my world.

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Montage

I’ve shot a lot of pictures on my trip thus far.  This is a montage of my favorites.  Enjoy.

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Parks

I’ve always appreciated the good taste and consistency of the National Park Service brochures.  (Laid out roughly geographically from my trip.)

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Peregrination III

Back at home, briefly, to do laundry and catch up with people before I continue my trip.  To quote yet again the wise words of Indiana Jones, “It’s not the years, it’s the mileage.”

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Array

With my uncanny ability to stumble on things I wasn’t looking for, heading west after visiting Trinity Site I found myself driving through the Very Large Array.  (Never realized that the dishes were on train tracks.  They can not only … Continue reading

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Priesthood

Serendipitously, I was driving around New Mexico while re-listening to a Seminar About Long Term Thinking that Neil Gaiman had given several years ago.  It reminded me about the Human Interface Task Force which the U.S. Department of Energy had … Continue reading

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Electrical

Saw this DeLorean in the parking lot at Trinity Site.  “Are you telling me this sucker is nuclear?”

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Mushroom

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the first man-made nuclear detonation occurred when the Manhattan Project successfully tested a nuclear bomb in a remote location in the deserts of New Mexico.  Oppenheimer codenamed the test as Trinity. Twice a year—the … Continue reading

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Highway II

Like the highway looking down toward White Sands, but this time looking down toward the Valley of Fire.

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Cottonwood

It has taken me way too long to figure this out.  The Alamo means “The Cottonwood.”  Los Alamos means “The Cottonwoods.”  Alamogordo means “Fat Cottonwood.”

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