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
Some wonderful pictures to start the weekend! I booted JRinWV until Monday’s set as I think that OzarkHillbilly’s recent submission will complement. It will be worth the wait, I promise!
First up, from otmar:
Where it was taken: Linz / Vienna
When: April 24th-27th 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: This is daily stuff for me (iow, I passed by these sights on various errands), but maybe interesting for other BJ readers.
I spent two days in Linz this week, here are pictures of the Cathedral and the church just next to it.Then a few shot from Vienna:
* The Staatsoper, the state opera house.
* St. Stephens Cathedral
* The ferris wheel in the Prater.
Well yes, I seem to have messed up the picture order but it’s late and my eyes are tired, so please forgive me.
otmar – do send more, we love them! And next time I’ll ensure I do it earlier so I’m not exhausted.
Next up, from RLchina:
Xihu Park Hangzhou China
Monday May 1, 2017
Rlchina AKA dà máng guǒ 大芒果
Wow…and that last one, just…wow. I am speechless.
Two more from RL:
Streets of Shanghai
April 30 2017
Rlchina AKA dà máng guǒ 大芒果Thought that John Cole needs these shirts….
Hmm…perhaps there’s a new market for Balloon-Juice sayings, categories, quotations, etc. We can export TO China!
And so finally, just a pair of pictures of mine from a few years back. These were taken at the summit of Pike’s Peak, from whence the poem America the Beautiful was composed/inspired. No matter the grim news of yesterday, today, or tomorrow, we have high ideals, deep values. beauty and love.
raven
Nice stuff!
rikyrah
All the pictures are fabulous. The one of the cascading water?
Stunning
OzarkHillbilly
Nice, very nice indeed, all of them. I find the garden pictures especially so.
rlchina 大芒果
Xihu in Hangzhou is extremely beautiful in the smog.. locals tell me that they have blue skies 40-50% of the time and then it is heaven on earth….
Quinerly
Fabulous pictures!!!! juju, if you cruise through on this thread this AM and want to get together in either Greenville or here on the NC coast, just email me at [email protected]. If here at the beach, your sister is more than welcomed to join us. Saw your message from late yesterday. I love meeting Juicers in my travel bops…you will be my sixth from five states!
Aleta
@Quinerly: I’ve been thinking of you and your work at your family home, mother’s house. I did it; it’s no small thing. Take care. Beach, ocean and Poco sound like good strong forces for balance.
otmar and RLchina — These photos are the moving views I needed this morning. Incredible to connect to this beauty through you. Thanks much.
Alain, big thanks for your vision, this feature.
Alain the site fixer
@Aleta: my pleasure!
rlchina 大芒果
@Aleta: being in China I cannot resist anywhere near as much as I could back home…I hope in some small way I can help lighten the spirits of those who can do more than I can….
ET
There was a tshirt I saw years ago that I wanted. It was black (because it has to be black) which white letters that weren’t big or bold and weren’t capitalized (I think it more effective than big and shouty) that said go away
I want it
MomSense
The photos this morning are so beautiful. The gardens at Xihu leaves me speechless. Wonderful.
Quinerly
@Aleta:
Thanks for your kind words. Bad storms here this AM. Tornado warnings and a very angry Atlantic. Poco and I are hunkered down (he is terrified of storms). Hopefully the WIFI doesn’t go out. This is the day I set up the new stereo here and some other toys. Back to the house I am packing up on Monday. I’m very lucky that I can take breaks from it and come here. Have a great day.
Aleta
@Quinerly: My dog (like Poco, he’s large, living a new life now, and always up for adventures followed by rest) actually tiptoes during storms and fireworks.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
Thank you all. That last garden picture in China looks like a Monet. Beautiful!
Miss Bianca
great photos, as always!
Steve in the ATL
@ET:
One of my best friends has this on his doormat
Juju
@Quinerly: I have cruised through the posts, though at a much later hour. Sorry, weather related migraine. I’ve got your email address and I’ll get in touch when I figure things out. Then I will see how they work for you. I hope Poco has recovered from the storms. Things have cleared up here. My last dog, Martha, needed Valium to get through bad storms.