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
First up, the rest of JRinWV’s amazing Europe pictures!
A reminder:
I’m sending a bunch of photos from our European trip, they’re shrunk some and detuned to be smaller, and compressed. These were all taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ200 with a Leica F2.8 24-600mm zoom – well, actually, some may have been taken with my Andriod tablet toward the end of the trip. I blew up the charger when I got confused, the Android charger was OK with 220V and the Panasonic was not. So when I ran out the second battery, that was that. They are all titled. The only cave paintings I photographed were at the replica Altamira II, not supposed to there, but we were way early, no one else was there, and it wasn’t the “real” cave, but accurate to the mm, our guide Dr Bahn knew the artists who painted it, a perfect copy. There are many “signs” and symbols among the animals we can recognize. I took 800+ photos, many dupes, edited and titled 260, and selected 42 to send you.
Wow, seeing many of those brought back childhood memories. I haven’t been to/through CDG since I was 14, and it still looks pretty much the same. It makes me want to dig up some of the pix I took in Beijing Airport a few years ago. In fact, since there’s a story attached, count on it!
Keeping with the European theme, next up are some from Kilgore Trout:
Where it was taken: Copenhagen
When: May 10
Other notes or info about the picture:Spending a quick day in Copenhagen before boarding a Baltic cruise later today. Long trip from the West coast for sure.Couple of pictures from old Copenhagen, a beautiful old church undergoing restoration.
Last one is the view from our little hotel, Hotel Christian IV, which
turned out to be a lovely place to stay. Tomorrow is Oslo.
Finally, a non-European picture, just a simple mountain wildflower from Colorado that I encountered on a hike years ago.
Have a great day and weekend, everybody! Give some thoughts to greennotGreen and her family in this time of need. I know I speak for all of us who thank you all for sharing this journey with us, and that this has helped a lot of us to prepare for our own challenges.
Travel well, dear travellers.
raven
Nice!
SiubhanDuinne
Very nice photos. I do enjoy this daily feature.
rlchina 大芒果
well done
lovely photos
Europe may be my next adventure…..
Mary G
So many great photographers on Balloon Juice!
raven
Morning Jihad continues!
OzarkHillbilly
Nice pics, all. JR, what is the story of the old stone arch in pic #5?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Comey/Trump?
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: LIES FROM ALL OF THEM!!! Mika is hysterical. . . “this is it’!!!
rikyrah
The pictures are fabulous?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Heh. They just now figured out we have a Matryoshka doll taking up residence in the White House.
satby
Very beautiful pictures JR, Kilgore, and Alain!
This is a nice way to start the day before we dip into the cesspool of Cray-cray that is politics in this country.
tobie
Lovely pictures! I now feel refreshed to start my day. Thanks.
Quinerly
WOW! Have a great day, Juicers.
debbie
Absolutely beautiful pictures. America’s looking shabby in comparison. And that flower!
J R in WV
Having great time in Tuscan countryside! Stop Very limited bandwidth stop Ancient stone arch Roman ruin under Notre Dame parking, found during construction, preserved, parking built above ancient site stop No bad wines in Tuscany, even sparkling whites! Stop Food great also stop Details photos next week Stop How GreennotGreen? End
laura
We’re back from NYC and today I climb laundry mountain. Travel is hard on the legs but so very good on the heart.
New Yorkers got a jump start on Trump. Did not see any evidence of support for him. We did see a 20 motorcycle and one squad car lights a blazing and sirens race down Broadway and joked that it was Melanin heading to CVS for eye makeup remover and Monistat.
Lots and lots of street art. There’s artists in the Resistance.
Alain the site fixer
@laura: pictures or it didn’t happen!
@J R in WV: we expect pictures and stories my friend – travel safely!
laura
@Alain the site fixer: sent three batches.