I’m home for a scant few days to work two gigs while Alex remains in Florida readying our lovely ‘66 Airstream Safari for the 2008 Tin Can Tourists Winter Convention.
In the absence of posting I have been nonetheless very busily involved with the website and those of a few others. Lots of work to be [...]
Ft. Myers, FL~
***Edit: After a number of concerned phone calls and a couple of e-mails I find it necessary to include the following disclaimer: The photos in the gallery below were taken with a powerful zoom lens from an observation deck at least a story above the subjects being photographed. The photographer (read: me) was [...]
U.S. Highway 41~
Dromedaries in a field
A small crowd of twenty-somethings waving American flags and Ron Paul For President signs at a major intersection in Georgia
The Florida State Line
Floyd’s Diner
Signs of life: political, legal and personal
Prices going up, going up, going up …
Rain for six solid days
Giant’s Camp, Gibsonton, FL
Showbar, Gibsonton, FL
A mysterious tree blight
The End [...]
Tifton, GA~
The place was unassuming and comfortable in its surroundings in the suburbs just slightly outside of Atlanta. Two turns off the highway got us there an hour before it opened. We found ample parking in the lot of the community center next door and cued up some podcasts to pass the time as we [...]
Acworth, GA~
One of the perks of this line of work is the requisite travel taking us practically to the doorstep of
amazing and talented people we know but seldom have the opportunity to see or visit, and one of the perks of driving the U.S. Highway 41 route is that it takes us right through Goodlettsville, [...]
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