On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their transient locales.
So, please, speak up and share some of your adventures, observations, and sights as you explore, no matter where you are. By concentrating travel updates here, it’s easier for all to keep up-to-date on the adventures of our fellow Commentariat. And it makes finding some travel tips or ideas from 6 months ago so much easier to find…
Have at ’em, and have a safe day of travels!
Should you have any pictures (tasteful, relevant, etc….) you can email them to [email protected] or just use this nifty link to start an email: Start an Email to send a Picture to Post on Balloon Juice
Both PCs are “down” as Windows 10 Creator’s Update applies. My Linux machines don’t have any Balloon Juice stuff on them, and I’m on my iPad so no pictures this morning – unless I wake up early and restless!
Have a great weekend, and for those of you travelling, try to enjoy your time away from home!
Hopefully Major Major Major Major will share more of his fantastic trip.
Don’t forget, Federal, etc. taxes are due April 18! Thank you DC – they have a holiday structured to add an additional day to the tax due date because citizens of Washington, D.C. pay Federal income taxes, are not residents of any state, are controlled by the US House, and have no real representation in Congress. As a former resident, I can tell you that the people who live in our Nation’s Capitol have Taxation without Representation. And so it’s nice that they extend a finger to the Feds on Tax day, if they can.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Wait, you upgraded both machines at the same time? I did 6 machines on Tuesday, but made sure my backup was done before my primary was started.
ThresherK
I’m lucky enough to have stayed with Win 8. Same bones, less clutter, and I know others don’t have the privilege.
Hopefully the useful Windows lifespan of the 2 PCs in question won’t go beyond support for 8, then a good Linux on em will give me a.bit more time. At that point, just hope the after-10 OS is dekinked.
I dunno if it’s a system, but it did allow me to skip right over Vista.
Major Major Major Major
I’m a Mac guy for now, but if they keep moving away from what IMO made the MacBook great, I’m going to go back to dual-booting Windows and Linux on a PC.
I don’t have any additional bloggy updates to share today, but if you click my nym it goes to my blog and you can see my three posts so far. We did a Thai cooking class this morning which was most excellent. I just can’t wait to tell my friends back home about this “Thai food” thing. In all seriousness though it was great, and I’ll be adding at least one soup to my repertoire.
I also finally remembered to snap a picture of Ronald McDonald doing a Thai bow.
It’s Songkran right now, which is fun, for certain values of fun. It’s their new year’s, a festival of water, and includes a country-wide squirt gun fight yesterday afternoon and this afternoon. And now I’m accompanying my husband to the mall to pick up tickets for the circuit parties, because Songkran in Bangkok is also a big gay destination.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@ThresherK:
Are you nuts?
OzarkHillbilly
WHAT???? NO PICS????? Somebody oughta do something about this travesty. Meanwhile, here’s a destination: Arizona Sky Village’s residents have one rule: ‘Turn off your goddamned lights’
If you ever do go, I suggest you DON’T take a nighttime drive into Arizona Sky Village. Arrive during the day. No need to piss off the natives with your headlights.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major:
I am a mac girl and I would be interested in hearing more about what you don’t like about their direction. Not to pick a fight, truly interested in knowing what led you to say that.
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: There have only been two Windows operating systems that didn’t suck: Windows XP and Windows 7.
WaterGirl
I am up in the night because I have to get my tax information to my tax guy before he kills me for getting it in so late.
The big piece that is left is for me to go through all the bills for the new porch I had built last year. It was a crazy disruptive time and I never got all the bills organized. So now I have to wade through a year’s worth of unsorted papers to find those bills and get a total. ugh.
And yes, in case you are wondering, the shoemakers’s kids do go barefoot.
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: ports, size, increasingly made without part interchangeability as even a minor consideration.
satby
@Major Major Major Major: Have you learned all the levels of the Thai wai? I was forever doing it wrong: Wai-ing to children, wai-ing too low to monks, etc.I have to practice before I go back this November.
Alain the site fixer
@?BillinGlendaleCA: after doing the wife’s home pc first, I decided to go ahead and do my desktop n laptop. Wasn’t the clearest decision but no harm.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: That is my kinda town, except for the “being in (way too hot) Arizona” part. I hate light pollution, being able to see the stars was the best thing about being out in the country.
Major Major Major Major
@satby: i only do it back, I’m just a tourist.
satby
@Major Major Major Major: yeah, I was happily wai-ing people all over the place until I was lectured for doing it wrong. I guess I had to know so I wouldn’t offend the people at the school where I was going to teach, but I liked just greeting everyone. Made me paranoid.
Namaste in India was the same, but no etiquette levels to worry about.
rikyrah
No pictures today???
EBT
I have relevant pictures actually. A friend took me flying over Clear Lake and Lake Berryessa last Sunday. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2Ojlh_V4VMyX0E3WEQ3Uk9VYWM
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
This spot in the SE corner of AZ is over 5,000 feet in elevation above sea level, which means that while it does get hot, it isn’t anything like Tucson at 2,200 feet or Phoenix, at 1.200 feet. Right now it’s 65 degrees in Portal, the nearest weather station I can find easily.
Today the High will be 85, and dry. Although they do get summer thunderstorms, which can leave things both hot and wet.