Boris
It was good to hear from you and I’m glad that you and your family had a good
time . . .
. . . but this passage is pretty difficult to read. In addition, your cluster
of photos on Zone 10 represents a marathon in uploading (or would be here with
my Internet connection). Add to that Zone 10’s mouse-intensive navigation
system and your photo album is not going to get a complete shufti* from me.
May I suggest that you use paragraphs in your post, that you reduce the number
of photos and that you use the captioning system so that we are not staring at
a virtual slide show of sometimes-incomprehensible images.
However, I am really glad that you used Zone 10 rather than Photobucket for
your album; the latter was pretty awful to use for a viewer.
Chris
*Arabic for “look”.
> On 22 Dec 14, at 02:03, Willie Wonka via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> I have been lurking lately, but found a little time andmaterial to post.The
> pictures can be found
> here:http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=13775My
> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=13775My>son finished high school
> and as a reward we took him onhis biggest vacation up to date – trip to
> California. Yes, we have taken himabroad, but this was much bigger. His
> favorite movie of all times is “BigTrouble in Little China” (rolling my
> eyes…), so San Francisco it was. San Francisco is one amazing city. More
> amazing are itsinhabitants…they are so laid back and relaxed and…pretty sure
> none of themrealize that the car they drive actually has a horn. Really,
> what’s wrong withthese people? And who wears winter coat at the end of June,
> we felt so out ofplace in shorts and t-shirts. There was another reason we
> felt so out ofplace-we drove the biggest car in the city, but more on that
> later…The first day we “rented” a tour guide whom we found on theNet. We
> choose him, because we didn’t want to participate in a cheesy tour,going to
> all the tourist places. Our effort paid off and we actually learned
> something.First stop, China Town. It was very unlike China towns onthe East
> Coast. To get there we took one of the old trolleys. Funny, they havewooden
> brakes that smell like burning pine downhill. There was one funnyincident,
> where the tour guide who happened to be a jokester, pointed to a verynarrow
> side alley and told the group that it’s an unique photographicopportunity and
> upon hearing this, each one of them started clicking away. Hejust laughed and
> told them that he was joking. I think they gave him dirtylooks, because he
> didn’t joke like that until the tour ended.San Franciscans seems to love
> their coffee. Everywhere yougo, you are greeted by this big, beautiful coffee
> machines. No idea how good itis, since I don’t drink coffee, but I can
> attest, that the local beer issuperb. We were renting houses anddespite
> having all the amenities, we ate out. The food was edible, unlike thefood
> found in the tourist destinations. Speaking of San Franciscans, did youknow
> that one can smoke pot in public transportation…:)I really wanted to have a
> picture of the iconic SanFrancisco bridge, but it wasn’t meant to be. There
> was entirely too much fog.Well, you see my best effort…On the way to Mount
> Carmel, starting picture 452. Alexchased the birds on the beach. We were so
> happy, as we hadn’t seen a real oceansince July of 2013, the time we left
> Rhode Island. Mount Carmel was touristy, the beach was cold and
> aftercompleting the famous 17 mile drive we headed to Santa Cruz, where we
> spent therest of the day. Having lived in RI for ten years, we weren’t
> impressed by the17 mile drive.Next day we headed towards the Yosemite where
> we spent twodays. It was too hot in the valley (yes, that deer passed right
> by me) and inthe afternoon of the first day we headed for the high country,
> which we likedbetter. The second day we spend hiking at high elevation, where
> one couldreally feel the lack of air in the air sans the unrelenting
> heat.Pictures 894, 941, 944 and 945 are from a place called “SodaSprings”. I
> love seltzer and it was amazing to see it bubbling right out of theground. Of
> course I drank it and am still alive.The following pictures were taken either
> on the way or atMono Lake, some of them through the car window. I hate the
> sunset/sunrise lookwhere everything is orange, so the pictures of the tuffas
> were taken right aftersunset.Now we start with the part of the trip which was
> mostinteresting to Alex. He likes old stuff and he is fascinated by the
> abandonedtowns in the West. First stop-Bode, an old mining town that was
> deserted in theearly part of the twentieth century. I didn’t see any
> generators, but if youlook closely the lamp on picture 1152 is still glowing.
> It was hot, really hot,but as you can see the person on picture 1161 was not
> deterred to dress inlayers…:)After that, we explored via back roads a few
> more abandoned towns.We had rented an SUV in order to accomplish this task
> since they were far awayfrom pavement.Alex was upset when we reached the
> first town. As mentionedabove, he really likes old stuff and the fact that
> people used everything,especially the cars for target practice, did not go
> well with him.On the way back (at the end of our vacation) we stopped by a
> train museum, Alex has atrain fetish. We were informed that the train on
> picture 1371 is a movie starthat starred in more than 100 movies, including
> the famous scene from “Back tothe Future”, but you movie buffs already knew
> that.Unlike now, California was really dry. One can see from thepictures
> taken in-between how scorched everything was. I have never seen fieldsand
> hills made of pure gold…Now, keep in mind, that I was forewarned-this wasn’t
> goingto be a photography trip, all pictures with the exception of one were
> made prettymuch while walking/driving. Only one time during this trip, I (put
> my footdown, much to Alex’s annoyance and…) took 20 minutes in order to take
> one ofthe pictures, so here it is: Whoeverfigures out which one it is first,
> gets an award, I will think of something.Hint…it took me nineteen minutes and
> a half to find it and half a minute totake it. BestBoris
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