Misc Photos

It Didn’t

The weather that is. It was raining when we got up, so we decided to take the Interstate back instead of US25. This put us off the Geocaching Along A Route plan, so that even when the sun did come out towards the end of the trip and the top came down we were nowhere near anything to look for.

Here is a photo from yesterday. The 404′ Hickory Nut Falls at Chimney Rock Park.

Hickory Nut Falls

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Vacation Photo Outtake III

Tinkertown Museum in Sandia Park, NM.

Admission to this piece of Roadside Americana is three bucks and then they give you a quarter back so you can listen to this band welcome you.

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Vacation Photo Outtake 2

Dino – In front of Flintstones Bedrock City in Custer, SD.

I wish I had taken a few more pictures of this place, but it looked a little rundown (sort of like nothing had been done to it since its heyday in the early 70’s) and neither Donna nor I felt comfortable parked in the empty lot out front, we didn’t even want to go in the Gift Shop which looked open.

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Vacation Photo Outtake

Fourd Seasons – a car sculpture next to Carhenge in Alliance, NE.

I have posted my vacation photos online, both here and on Flickr. Right now there are titles and no captions, so it is sort of like watching TV with it on mute, you can get the gist of it, but not the full effect. Come back in a week or so…

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Blogger’s Night Off

The barbed wire fence was little deterrent as this water tank along NM14 and it got a very colorful paint job. There was a geocache just a little further north along the fence.

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Finally

The correct parts for the Emperor’s brakes arrived at work this morning and within an hour and a half after getting home, major stopping power was returned. The first time I stepped on the pedal during a circuit of the block for testing, it was eerily reminiscent of the first time I drove a car with power brakes, an unexpected demonstration of Newton’s First Law of Motion.

More madcap ways to place a photo of you inside different images – Fun Box Photo.

My favorite:

 
Although this one is more appropriate because the photo I used is from my 1978 passport:
 

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