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11-08-2024, 10:42 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

...this time in Vermont! Taken on a Fall Road Trip in 2014, when I was living in D.C.

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11-03-2024, 02:12 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

A random scene along the highway in Mexico--and a preview of what you'll see when I finally get around to completing the last segment of that Field...

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10-27-2024, 12:07 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

Taken in the park in downtown Homer, Alaska:

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10-26-2024, 06:10 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

Bison are big, and we humans are small, so they have a tendency to ignore us while they go about more important business, like, eating. We were in my...

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10-25-2024, 07:57 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

That's a bodacious bear! (And a bit too close for comfort!) My next pic was taken along the Alaska Highway, just west of Liard Hot Springs. This...

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10-22-2024, 09:43 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

The "arrow tree," formerly located alongside US 191 (formerly US 666), south of Alpine, Arizona. This pine was a favorite target for bow hunters...

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10-21-2024, 08:26 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

Here's another odd bit of ancient history, closer to home: Photo taken in Natchez, Mississippi in the Spring of '79. At that time, from the...

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10-20-2024, 07:23 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

The first Sony Walkman didn’t go on sale until July of 1979, and yet here is a prototype version, carved in stone, no less, that predates the...

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10-18-2024, 07:54 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

This was taken at the Lago de La Cocha, near Pasto, Colombia, at an elevation of 9700 feet. My friends and I used to drive my truck out there for...

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10-18-2024, 04:25 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

You were missing the llama, so I fixed it for you. Rick

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10-18-2024, 01:43 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

When I was a young dude, driving all over the Northern Andes in my Dodge Powerwagon, I discovered a very cool road outside the city of Manizales, in...

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10-17-2024, 12:30 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

Unsafe at any speed! Taken in the Connecticut woods, May of '79.

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10-17-2024, 11:59 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

Cooling his heels? Actually, I've always wondered that very thing, whenever I look at this photo. I just asked "Perplexity," the AI search engine,...

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10-16-2024, 11:36 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

To be more precise, it's a llama, standing in Lake Titicaca, taken in Peru in 1971!

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10-12-2024, 02:10 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

This is one of the few surviving photos of the Dodge Powerwagon that I shipped to South America, the year I graduated from college. The picture was...

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10-12-2024, 12:27 PM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

The last time I was in Peru (1973) I flew into Cuzco from Lima, and landed in the middle of a tense demonstration. Hundreds of students were...

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10-12-2024, 06:33 AM

Rick Quinn replied to a thread Random Photos from Road Trips in RoadTrip Field Reports

Hey, Buck, These are great! It clearly took some guts just to be walking the steets in those circumstances, much less pointing a camera at people...

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