Category: 2018
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2018 Costa Rica (4) Guayabo
Travels with Dick and KarenCosta Rica, Part 4Guayabo One last drive through Santa Elena. This time we turn towards Tilarán. We’re taking a route that parallels Lago Arenal instead of dropping immediately back to the Pan American Highway through the construction road closures. However, we already knew that this route was not paved for a…
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2018 Costa Rica (3) Monteverde
Travels with Dick and KarenCosta Rica, Part 3Monteverde Travel from Cachí to Cartago wasn’t too bad. But getting around San Jose was thick. Six miles on the Hwy 39 ring road took an hour. And was fraught with motorcycles It was very slow and probably usually so: street vendors were casually walking between the cars…
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2018 Costa Rica (2) Cachí
Travels with Dick and KarenCosta Rica, Part 2Cachí As we departed Alajuela, the traffic on the Pan American Highway wasn’t too bad to start. But as it neared San Jose: This is now Highway 39, the southern ring-road around San Jose. Typical motorcycle behavior: the dashed line painted on the road is a “lane”, right?…
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2018 Costa Rica (1) Allujuela
Travels with Dick and KarenCosta Rica, Part 1Alajuela The map is an overlay of a NASA satellite shot.Yes, it was that green in most places and that brown (and hot) around Liberia so we spent most of our time up in the cloud forests on the mountaintops where it was usually in the mid-60s to…
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2018 US Southwest (4)
Travels with Dick and Karen Patterns for Inspiration from Yellowstone National Park This isn’t well curated and mostly for my own use but feel free to to run with it.If it inspires something for you. I’d love to see a photo of your finished art piece. Bacteria/algae in water flow-green is cooler patterns from Yellowstone…
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2018 US Southwest (3)
Travels with Dick and KarenSW US 2018, Part 3Grand Tetons to Seattle From Green River/James Town we head north on Wyoming 372 … this has been a trip frequently using “the roads less traveled”. For the next hour or so we’ll see fewer than ten other vehicles. Our morning starts by going through more rolling…
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2018 US Southwest (1)
Canyons: Layers of time Travels with Dick and KarenMid-May to Mid-June 2018Part 1: Seattle to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon A Monumental Tour! This trip was to be a geology-themed (re)visit to the American Southwest. We had last visited the SW in 2010 but had started three weeks earlier. That trip had snow…
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2018 US Southwest (2)
Travels with Dick and KarenGlen Canyon to Dinosaur National Monument US Highway Alt89 runs across the top of the Kaibab Plateau at an elevation of about 7500 feet. As we near its eastern edge, we can look across the lowlands to the face of the Vermillion Cliffs. Hundreds of feet of sediment laid down dust…