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| Miami Trip | | | [11-Jan-2024]
I participated in a meltdown of the airline system and didnt even get a t-shirt.
Went to Miami for about half a days work. Plane leaving Tallahassee was an hour late but not really an issue. Coming back was a disaster. Storms cause the 8:00 flight to be diverted to Jax and canceled the midday one. I wasnt on them but on the 6:30 flight. It too got canceled because while Tallahassee and Miami where clear they didnt want to fly into the storms now between the cities. Bumped to 10:30 which became 11:00. Got on the plane. Sat for 40 minutes waiting on a pilot. Got off the plane and sent to rebooking after midnight, which was thousands of people long. Rebooked online to 8:30.
Extended from gate 37 back to 48. Phone died. Cant use the company hotel reservation system to book a hotel that you will leave the same day. People camped all over the airport. Tried to charge phone and sleep and picked the wrong gate. A flight to Brazil (which had been held on the tarmac 3 hours) got unloaded, security and the police showed up and they gave $12 meal vouchers one person at a time to everyone.
Moved locations. Its like 4am now. Realized it wasnt the 8:30 flight on Wed i was booked for but the on the Thursday. Got back in line, much shorter now only took a few hours to get to the front but after the 8:30 flight. Standby for 3:30. Picked up by coworkers (took them 3.5 hours to come from the 38 min away hotel). Slept though the 3:30 flight (on purpose I was 10th on the list and no available seats). Standby #2 on 6:30 flight. Got on it and got home 24 hours late. |
| USSF-67 | | | [17-Jan-2023]
Drove down to St. Marks to watch a rocket launch. Of course it didnt go off. Went back Sunday. Was able to see the falcon heavy as expected at 120 degrees. Also saw the reentry burns of the side boosters. |
| Zooworld | | [05-Apr-2022]
Took Cece and her friend to the Panama City zoo. Spend lots of time in the Budgie cage. Played mini golf afterwards. It was some holiday in the past, like maybe even in 2021.
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| Congaree National Park & Reunion | | | [25-Jun-2021]
Stopped at Congaree National Park on the way to North Carolina for the family reunion. Split the drive up and down in two so I didnt have to drive 9 hours at once. Went up through Augusta and down through Savannah with trip to Raleigh on Sat to see Roberto. |
| Cosmosphere and Kansas | | | [09-Jul-2020]
Went to the Cosmosphere on the way into Larned. Its a space museum for no apparent reason in the middle of Kansas. Jas a number of original items like Russian capsules.
Also some photos from across Kansas. Trains, miles of windmills, camels and small historical sites. |
| Cosmosphere and Kansas | | | [09-Jul-2020]
Went to the Cosmosphere on the way into Larned. Its a space museum for no apparent reason in the middle of Kansas. Jas a number of original items like Russian capsules.
Also some photos from across Kansas. Trains, miles of windmills, camels and small historical sites. |
| Cosmosphere and Kansas | | | [09-Jul-2020]
Went to the Cosmosphere on the way into Larned. Its a space museum for no apparent reason in the middle of Kansas. Jas a number of original items like Russian capsules.
Also some photos from across Kansas. Trains, miles of windmills, camels and small historical sites. |
| Japanese Friendship Garden | | [12-Jul-2019]
Only open Friday-Sun or some such. Phoenix is sister cities with some city in Japan and that city built this. It took longer to drive across Phoenix to it that it did to walk around. Nice little garden it had grass, a small pond and fish but again outside in the heat.
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| Hole in the Wall | | [11-Jul-2019]
A sandstone formation with a hole though it in the middle of a larger park. The park even had a community fishing spot which was the largest body of water Id seen in Phoenix so far.
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| Desert Botanical Garden | | [08-Jul-2019]
There is nothing to do in Pheonix after work except hike in the 100+ degree heat. I went to the Desert Botanical Garden hoping for some shade, or at least regular water. No shade. Lot of cacti
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| Sunset Crater | | [03-Jul-2019]
Sunset Crater volcano is a bunch of cinder cones and lava fields. Didnt get there in time to get my National Park stamp and it was too hot to climb the one cinder cone that was available (I think I climbed it last time I was here). Did do the scenic drive that leads through park and then on to Waputki.
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| Waputki | | [03-Jul-2019]
Drove through Sunset Crater Volcano and Waputki on the way from Winslow to Flagstaff. Camera batteries died at Sunset Crater so only had cell for for Waputki. It wasnt open anyway, just the scenic drive. There were a bunch of people on top of Citadel Pueblo however right at sunset so climbed up to it and waited till they left to continue driving.
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| Petrified Forest | | [30-Jun-2019]
Spent the morning driving the Petrified Forest. Did no hiking because my legs still hurt from the Grand Canyon. The park slow changes from being about petrified trees to badlands landscapes as you travel north. At the northern end visitor center they even have the lab open where they are preparing fossils they found in the park. Some sort of new species because they thing its related to from Madagascar is vegetarian but theirs is carnivorous. Cant remember the genus however. About 3-4ft long.
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| The Grand Canyon | | | [29-Jun-2019]
Spent all day the Grand Canyon. Arrived before 8:30 and started down the South Kaibab trail. It took me about an hour to reach Ceder Point a 1000ft down and a mile and a half in. It took nearly 3 hours to come back up. Got passed by the mule train bringing garbage up.
This immediately make this one of the most exhausting hikes Ive ever done. Not going back down into the canyon. Spent most the rest of the day riding the bus from site to site along the rim taking pictures. Rode from Yaki Point all the way to Hermits Rest. The drove out to Desert View. I was there for sunset but it was too cloudy to even bother with pictures.
Also caught the Grand Canyon Railway in Williams for the steam engine then again in the park when it pulled out, where it had a diesel engine.
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| Little Painted Desert | | [28-Jun-2019]
13 miles up the road from Homolovi is a county park the Little Painted Desert. It has the advantage of always being open unlike Homolovi which doesnt open till 8am.
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| Homolovi | | [28-Jun-2019]
Homolovi is a set of pueblos on the Little Colorado outside Winslow. There isnt much to see, its almost all buried and only found one petroglyph.
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| Grand Falls | | [27-Jun-2019]
The Grand Falls of the Little Colorado is a mostly dry water fall way off the beaten track in the middle of an Indian reservation down a unimproved road. Last time I had a jeep and drove across the river unknowingly to see it from the wrong side. This time since GPS exists went to the actual pavilion with signs. Got there right at sunset but the pictures came out fine.
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| Meteor Crater | | [27-Jun-2019]
Back in AZ for work. Luckily its in the area Im missing a lot of photos for from my 2000 roadtrip. First stop was Meteor Crater. They have updated the exhibits in 19 years but still couldnt take the tour around, high winds this time.
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| Bee Lab and Florida Museum | | | [25-Aug-2018]
Went to Gainesville for the opening of the bee lab today seeing as my name is permanently on the wall. The red of the Apalahcee Beekeepers sign is the observation hive room.
Also went to the Florida Museum while I was there since its a few buildings away. The have a nice butterfly area.
On the way back there were two accidents. West bound car on fire stopped traffic just a mile short of an east bound wreck that blocked both lanes and diverted all traffic on that side of the interstate. It was weird to have our lane stopped but nothing on the other side at all. |
| Andersonville | | | [20-Aug-2017]
Stopped at Andersonville on my way north to the eclipse. I was there maybe 25 years ago but dont remember anything but the line of graves stones. Thats at the cemetery. Forgot the earth works and partial reconstruction of thr walls. They have also built a POW museum since then.
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