Furlough-cation 2010: Part One

[bluedigger]

I am on a roadtrip to nowhere while waiting to find out if I will have a job. Here are some of the places I've been.

First I went from New Orleans to Maine and bought a Jeep.



On the way out of Maine, I passed this guy eating somebody's flowers.



After a trip back to New Orleans...



we headed West.



Badlands National Park.

Of course, we had to go see those guys...



They're still cool...hangin' out.

I'm in Cody, WY tonite. More to come.

[HarveyDarkey]

1. Maine, to NOLA to South Dakota?

Now that's a road trip. Looking forward to the rest of your trip.

[bluedigger]

3. Actually I started in NOLA.

Had to go back to clean out my rental place. I just didn't do much photography on the parts I'd been before, which is most of the Eastern US.

Another from Maine...



Height of Land looking southeast across Rangeley Lake. Benjamin Arnold went through here on his way to attack Quebec.

[Mira]

2. That's simply great! I love the shared road trips.

They're an insight into the poster and his/her photography and widen our horizon giving us their take and slant. Also a nice diversion from the more usual stuff.

Here the badlands are grabbing me the most. And the Elk.
WOW.
A long time ago I was on a road trip with my friend Vici, and when we got to Cody, after what memory says was an unusual entry into the town but I don't remember why, I went bananas because I honestly had not seen a Western town of any kind before.
I thought it was a damn movie set for a sequel to Blazing Saddles or the like.

I must have carried on a lot. Because I remember Vici, a native of Wyoming, laughing about my antics til she cried.

[bluedigger]

4. That's a moose!

Maine doesn't have Elk. They used to have Caribou, but attempts to reintroduce them were unsuccessful.

More Badlands



I've been seeing all kinds of deer everywhere! I'll get more wild life up on the photobucket.

[Mira]

6. I knew that.

:rofl:

Thank you for the additional badlands photo. If I remember correctly the Indians used to call the Grand Canyon the badlands, too.
Would you believe that one of my most favorite personal photos ever was taken in Cody.
Of a deer in the dawn's early light.
And it was before digital, and I don't know where it is, but one day I will run across it again in a box filled with old photos.

[Tindalos]

5. That's quiet the road trip!

Looks like you've got lots of great photos to share. Can't wait to see more.

[hippywife]

7. Another fabulous road trip!

You people are killin' me here! :D

What's with all the red in that return to NOLA shot?

I say you are spending your furlough-cation very, very well. :hi:

[bluedigger]

8. It's a new thing.

Red Dress Run started a few years ago. I think there were about 50 runners in '08. Now, as you can see, Bourbon Street is over run with post race runners. And I use the phrase "race" loosely. It's become a new excuse to wear a dress and get drunk Saturday morning. Like a new excuse was needed...:rofl: