Started with the Bay Bridge... Chesapeake Bay that is
Love Point, in Kent Island, Maryland
Maryland State House in Anapolis
Cleanest, most symmetrical, yet most brutal and greyest campus I've ever seen. All surrounded by a tall brick fence.
On the wrong side of DC, I stopped for gas, and realized it was a bad part of town because I had to hand my money and groceries in through a revolving bullet-proof 3-inch glass window. I started to worry about my car refueling and unlocked at the pump. When I returned to the car, this African American made up a crazy story about why I needed to give him $6.75. He spat alcohol into my face as he talked so I paid him off.
Pink cherry blossoms just starting out
Jefferson Memorial in DC
GW's grave
Washington's estate at Mt. Vernon
Mansion in the Virginia hills
James Madison's Montpelier
Monticello plantations re-enacted
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
The funny professor character guide at Jefferson's house
Blue Ridge Mountains
Mansion in Afton, VA where I spent the night.
Natural Bridge, VA, surrounded by tourist traps
Great Smoky Mountains... not that impressive or great compared to the mountains of the West
Highest point in the National Park open before April...
Valley at the foot of the Smokys, 20 degrees warmer
Friendly cop who let me off with a warning because I was nice and had a reasonable excuse for running the red light (the guy in front of me did it too)
Random adorable black kids in South Carolina
Tornado damage in Atlanta
CNN HQ
I missed the tornado by just a few days
Georgia State house
Martin Luther King's house
Atlanta Skyline
Alabama Capitol, Montgomery
Great honor is given to the Confederate president, Jefferson
Civil War memorial in Montgomery, Alabama
River at sunset near Florida-Alabama border
Piggly Wiggly... with names like that, you wonder why the US is losing its edge?
Another common chain in the south....
Railroad perspective in Mississippi
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Pelican who wouldn't budge
My first gator in the wild!
Biloxi Beach
My balcony in the Richillieu Hotel in New Orleans
Scam: I know where you got those shoes. I'll bet you ten and ten. <shakes hands> Welcome to New Orleans. You got your shoes on your feet. Didn't go to college, aint got no knowledge. Goes down to ground and starts shining shoes. I pulled back, didn't want this, but this crazy lady insists. Then she introduces her baby daughter and claims she doesn't do any drugs. Then asks for $20! It was a bet! I gave her 5 and ran away while she cursed me. Tried not to let it ruin the experience.
One of many street musicians in the French Quarter
Bourbon St: nothing but bars and strip clubs. Maybe that's why they were smitten with a monster hurricane.
Typical French Quarter balcony
French Quarter street posts
Albino Python at the voodoo museum
Voodoo artifacts
French Quarter wrought Iron
Shadow play
Pirate girls?
New Orleans from the roof top
Jackson Square
The square is very well landscaped
President Jackson... one of the most power hungry and most murderous in US history is glorified here
Above-ground cemetery
Swamp Tour
Katrina uprooted tree
Creepy swimmer
Baby gator
Cold blooded little guy
Buttressed roots
One mean turtle
Dead gator
Mouth open to let out the digestive gases
Swamp
Negros walking along the Mississippi River
Old farm house? Slave house?
Spanish Moss
Shaggy
Oak Alley Plantation house
Louisiana State Capitol... a brutal building from the 30's
Mississippi River at Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisianna wetlands, I-10
Dead possum in Texas
Texas lone star appears all over the state... looks ironically like the Soviet red star....
late-March Texas wildflowers on the side of the freeway
Depth of field
Flowers+truck
In the median divider
for Julia
The Alamo
Alamo
San Antonio
No Littering
Sunset in the rear view window
Sunset swim... on the other side of the Lake Amistad is Mexico
Finally, the great Western Desert
Climbing Emory Peak, Big Bend National Park
Emory Pk, 2nd tallest in Texas
Cactus Flowers
"The Window" at Big Bend
Very rare glimpse of a mountain lion
St. Helena Canyon at Big Bend National Park, Texas. Carved by the Rio Grande River
Texas Route 54 didnt see one car in over 50 miles!
Carlsbad Caverns
8-second exposure
Sand-als
White Sands National Monument
Traveling Freakshow...999eyes.com in Truth or Consequences, NM
Jammed with them after the hot springs
Wagon and Tepee
Four Corners
Hello Mr. Ranger
Mesa Verde Entrance
Anasazi Ruins
Burnt out... should they change the Verde in the name?
cliff side palace
Mesa Verde National Parl
Classic Windmill
Utah... is that a huge Beehive??
"The Needles" at Canyonlands Natl. Park
Cozy little cave
dead cow
Wilson's Arch
Arches Natl. Park
Can you find me in this picture? If it were not for the red coat? How little we are in the context of nature....
What happened to the road?
who says Prius drivers are slow???
Andrei's cabin... hardly recognizable, elevation at about 7,000 ft.
And end in the other Bay Bridge... San Francisco, that is.
Nevada Desert
