Travel
I woke up at 6:30 this morning when I heard a woman giggling in the adjacent room. Dang! I just took my time getting dressed, went to the office to get coffee, and ate breakfast in my room. I left Green River at 7:30, forgetting I would gain an hour when I crossed into Nevada, and I arrived at the motel here at 1 pm. I drove about 340 miles today.
Utah, especially southern Utah, has some spectacular scenery. The northern part is beautiful in places, especially the Wasatch mountain range, but it is too populated and busy to be to my liking.
These pictures were taken in Colorado and Utah. I will drive about the same distance tomorrow so I hope to get photos of Nevada. (Please click on a picture to enlarge it.)
I was thinking about all the pictures I took in the last ten years or so on my drives across the country and back and realized I took much better pictures with film. Maybe it's me and not the digital-versus-film camera issue, but I think I will try to go back to film periodically. The thing is that we quickly get addicted to uploading our photos onto the computer and see them almost instantly. In my case, I can have the film pictures put on a CD but it usually isn't compatible with my Mac computer. I give the CD to Donald and ask him to email me my pictures, but it's a shame the developers (i.e., Costco, Walmart, etc.) don't use a different software for the CD. I had some film developed when I worked at Ft. Pulaski in SC a few years back, and I think it was Walgreen's that gave me a completely compatible CD with my photos. I know, I should try Walgreen's for film developing in Sacramento!
Among all the maps I brought along was the big Forest Service map of the Humboldt-Toyabi National Forest, where I had several campgrounds in mind for my stopovers here. To add insult to injury, I also kept passing signs to Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Arches, Capitol Reef, Great Basin, etc., plus all the wonderful national forests I've driven through. I try to be philosophical about it though - I can't go so why cry over it. I may go into it in a later post, but this trip has given me some great "aha moments" and I think a few are life changing. Time will tell.
- Day 1 - Nevada
Sacramento to Ely, NV: 445 miles; 9 hrs. On Wednesday I realized I had no TV or internet connection - I mistakenly asked AT&T to turn it off on Apr. 1 rather than Apr. 2. No TV and no internet is hard to deal with when you...
- Minor Disappointment
I can't get the black lab I saw online out of my mind and have been corresponding with someone from the lab rescue about seeing him. She told me he was in a kennel in Galt undergoing treatment for kennel cough, and then would be in a foster...
- Quick Post
It will be just a quick post tonight, unless I start off on a tangent! I'll try to refrain. I took a roll of b&w film to the camera store to have it developed. You can't have b&w developed anywhere these days it seems, other...
- Jet Lag?
I know it is more difficult to adjust to the time change when going west than it is the other way around. I thought, however, that driving made a difference, and it does, but I seem to be dealing with a bit of jet lag now. Since the last two...
- No Place Like Home
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home! I arrived at my day's destination in Carson City, NV at 1:00 pm and didn't want a repeat of yesterday when I had way too much time to kill because of early arrival. Also I'm tired...
Travel
In Nevada
I woke up at 6:30 this morning when I heard a woman giggling in the adjacent room. Dang! I just took my time getting dressed, went to the office to get coffee, and ate breakfast in my room. I left Green River at 7:30, forgetting I would gain an hour when I crossed into Nevada, and I arrived at the motel here at 1 pm. I drove about 340 miles today.
Utah, especially southern Utah, has some spectacular scenery. The northern part is beautiful in places, especially the Wasatch mountain range, but it is too populated and busy to be to my liking.
These pictures were taken in Colorado and Utah. I will drive about the same distance tomorrow so I hope to get photos of Nevada. (Please click on a picture to enlarge it.)
I was thinking about all the pictures I took in the last ten years or so on my drives across the country and back and realized I took much better pictures with film. Maybe it's me and not the digital-versus-film camera issue, but I think I will try to go back to film periodically. The thing is that we quickly get addicted to uploading our photos onto the computer and see them almost instantly. In my case, I can have the film pictures put on a CD but it usually isn't compatible with my Mac computer. I give the CD to Donald and ask him to email me my pictures, but it's a shame the developers (i.e., Costco, Walmart, etc.) don't use a different software for the CD. I had some film developed when I worked at Ft. Pulaski in SC a few years back, and I think it was Walgreen's that gave me a completely compatible CD with my photos. I know, I should try Walgreen's for film developing in Sacramento!
Among all the maps I brought along was the big Forest Service map of the Humboldt-Toyabi National Forest, where I had several campgrounds in mind for my stopovers here. To add insult to injury, I also kept passing signs to Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, Arches, Capitol Reef, Great Basin, etc., plus all the wonderful national forests I've driven through. I try to be philosophical about it though - I can't go so why cry over it. I may go into it in a later post, but this trip has given me some great "aha moments" and I think a few are life changing. Time will tell.
- Day 1 - Nevada
Sacramento to Ely, NV: 445 miles; 9 hrs. On Wednesday I realized I had no TV or internet connection - I mistakenly asked AT&T to turn it off on Apr. 1 rather than Apr. 2. No TV and no internet is hard to deal with when you...
- Minor Disappointment
I can't get the black lab I saw online out of my mind and have been corresponding with someone from the lab rescue about seeing him. She told me he was in a kennel in Galt undergoing treatment for kennel cough, and then would be in a foster...
- Quick Post
It will be just a quick post tonight, unless I start off on a tangent! I'll try to refrain. I took a roll of b&w film to the camera store to have it developed. You can't have b&w developed anywhere these days it seems, other...
- Jet Lag?
I know it is more difficult to adjust to the time change when going west than it is the other way around. I thought, however, that driving made a difference, and it does, but I seem to be dealing with a bit of jet lag now. Since the last two...
- No Place Like Home
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home! I arrived at my day's destination in Carson City, NV at 1:00 pm and didn't want a repeat of yesterday when I had way too much time to kill because of early arrival. Also I'm tired...