Grabbed a quick shot of the sun setting behind the plume coming off the cooling towers of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago. The colors have not been altered, this was how the sky was lit up. Notice the shadow of the cloud cast upwards from the sun on the horizon, due to all the dust in the air, which was the reason for the vivid colors. Seems a more fitting scene for a tropical paradise rather than rural farmland.
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Today’s adventure at the end of my day – stop at the end of the exit ramp and wait for a parade of trucks to go by. As I turn a car comes flying out of the truck stop on the right, coming across in front of me, and I have to stop or hit him. Then in another display of ignorance a truck continues to pull out and cross completely into my lane coming out of the other truck stop. Amazing that so many truck drivers still can’t stay in the proper lane no matter how much room they have to maneuver. Also the matter of right-of-way that both the car and truck didn’t yield to the fact that I was on the roadway and moving, while they were entering the road from private entrances. Just another day in trucker’s paradise.
Saw this up near Boston last week. License plate said it was a Cobra, wondering if it is a real one or just a kit-car replica.
Just another day on the road, unfortunately this is everyday behavior. As the video starts we see the sign on the right, rest area ahead. There were previous signs announcing the rest area was near. After the short exit lane begins, this woman decides to go from the nearly stopped middle lane across my lane to the rest area. She didn’t even speed up when she pulled in front of me. Notice how much following distance I have between me and the nearest vehicle ahead, also how much time and space this car had to safely move over to the exit. I had slowed down considerably from the speed limit anticipating something like this once the two left lanes slowed. Certainly this shows the benefit of having the DVR on the dash, had there been traffic on my right I probably would have rear ended her. This would have shown she pulled in front of me and saved my, well, you know …
The day didn’t turn out well weather wise, temps hovering near freezing and winds 40mph and gusting. Didn’t get out and about around Penn’s Landing to see the ships and other sights in the nearby neighborhoods. This is about the only photo of the day not related to the luncheon at the Chart House restaurant.
Looking toward downtown Philadelphia
Starting next to Philadelphia Int’l Airport to just past the Ben Franklin Bridge where traffic normally comes to a stop as rush hour begins. Coming off of the lower span of the big bridge over the Schuylkill River you can catch a glimpse of the Philadelphia Navy Yard and one or two of the ships there. Some bits of the skyline, sports stadiums, and Penn’s Landing where there are two sailing ships, and a yacht docked next to the Chart House restaurant where I’ll be taking photos tomorrow.
This one is only 2x normal speed. I know the date is wrong. After a few days off and not plugged into power the DVR seems to reset to 01/01/2011 which is going to get very annoying.
Well, maybe I didn’t really drive that fast. But, to condense all the scenery into something viewable that’s the speed the videos are equivalent to.
Ogden UT through the canyons to I-80 West
This ones a little longer, but 8 hours of driving shortened to 32 minutes. This is from near Gallup, NM to Snowville, UT. Much of it was on state roads, up to Ship Rock, NM, through Cortez CO, over into UT and up through the desert then Moab with all the National Parks. Continue north up through Price UT where dinosaurs archeological sites are located all throughout the region, then back over the mountains again to I-15 and north through Salt Lake City and Ogden, and finally Snowville just 7 miles short of the Idaho border.
I now have a DVR (Digital Video Recorder) mounted in the truck. Here’s a video heading into Green River, Wyoming, showing some of the great scenery and heading through the tunnel on I-80.
