It ain't pretty being easy... ([info]soopageek) wrote,
@ 2008-08-20 11:46:00
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Current location:Amarillo, TX
Current music:will you still love me tomorrow?
Entry tags:photo, travel

can i believe the magic of your sighs?
ast night I drove over to the plant to drop my empty trailer and park for the night until my load was ready. At 9am the load still wasn't ready and I was told that the plant is as much as two days behind schedule, so I could be a here for a while. At least I'll get some detention pay out of it - money for nothing and the chicks for free.

I decided to drive back into town and get some breakfast. I found a booth in the back with access to an electrical plug and chowed-down on my usual steak and eggs. As luck would have it, Amarillo still allows indoor smoking. What kind of world are we living in when Amarillo actually feels civilized compared to the rest of the country?

While fishing the recycle bin photo out of my camera yesterday I found some photos I took about a month ago in New Mexico. I was on some back roads near the "four corners" area of what used to be U.S. 666 until the recent name change. I was driving through some real Close Encounters Of The Third Kind sort of shit when I saw this great rainbow and decided to stop the truck on the shoulder for some pictures.















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[info]shmigs
2008-08-20 04:18 pm UTC (link)
Amazing! Thanks for sharing these.

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[info]mskauri
2008-08-20 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Gorgeous! It's been forever since I've been to Four Corners...I need to travel more!

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[info]troubleagain
2008-08-20 04:22 pm UTC (link)
Awesome pictures! Thanks!

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[info]ewok_626
2008-08-20 04:38 pm UTC (link)
I've never been to Four Corners... Now I really want to go! Thanks for sharing!

So what are you gonna do now that you're stuck for two days?

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 05:19 pm UTC (link)
I'm hoping I won't really be here for two days, but if I am... I'm actually starting to get the writing bug again, and starting to get over my addiction to Carcasonne. I'll probably write and read LJ for most of it. Maybe clean out my truck.

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[info]ewok_626
2008-08-20 06:11 pm UTC (link)
We're hoping you aren't there for two days, either! Although I'm sure your truck could use a good cleaning... ;)

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[info]erz_scamp
2008-08-20 05:10 pm UTC (link)
I like how you framed the first picture.

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 05:17 pm UTC (link)
It was a happy accident. Of this series, I had taken the "third" photo first (rainbow in the middle), which has the problematic telephone pole in the middle of it as well. So I tracked to the right to keep the telephone pole out of the composition. It ended up being a much better photo with the additional rock formations and the edge of the storm splitting the photo.

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[info]smailtronic
2008-08-20 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Nice rainbow rod. You know, like a lightning rod, but for rainbows.

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[info]pushmearound
2008-08-20 05:47 pm UTC (link)
Those are gorgeous. I've never been further west than Oklahoma or Texas and only a little bit into them then. I really would like to see that in person some day.

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 10:27 pm UTC (link)
I recommend that everyone travel by land, cross-country, at least once in their lives, preferably from east to west. You gotta fininsh getting across the plain chica, that's when it really starts getting interesting.

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[info]lossfound
2008-08-20 05:50 pm UTC (link)
those are awesome pics.

your downtime assignment is this. more than a bit of a disappointment but in my view worth the 20 minutes for the recent live footage among other things.

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the minute they see me, fear me, i'm the epitome of public enemy
[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Unfortunately, the flip side of being able to smoke in Amarillo is that their EVDO isn't much better than ISDN which effectively prohibits me from streaming video... but I definitely will check that out when I'm in a place with adequate speed.

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[info]bulletsandbones
2008-08-20 05:55 pm UTC (link)
That final pic is simply amazing!

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[info]donttouchmyhat
2008-08-20 10:09 pm UTC (link)
OMG my home.

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 10:32 pm UTC (link)
Currently or formerly?

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[info]donttouchmyhat
2008-08-20 11:08 pm UTC (link)
Formerly. Lived near Gallup '79-'88. You really captured it well.

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[info]tpbrcombo
2008-08-20 10:14 pm UTC (link)
YOU PLAY YOUR GUITAR ON THE MTV

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 10:33 pm UTC (link)
Lemme tell ya, them guys ain't dumb.

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[info]fidgety
2008-08-20 10:16 pm UTC (link)
HEAD FOR THE HILLS! DEM ALIENS WIT THEIR RAINBOW MACHINES WILL KILL US ALL!

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 10:35 pm UTC (link)
Heh, whenever I'm in that part of the country I always think of Close Encounters. Similarily, when I find myself on the back roads of Nevada, I always think of The Hills Have Eyes *shudder*

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[info]fidgety
2008-08-20 10:37 pm UTC (link)
I can only hope that you think of zombies when you're in Western Pennsylvania.

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 10:44 pm UTC (link)
Nuclear cannibal freaks in the Nevada desert, zombies in Western PA, evil forest spirits in the woods of Tennessee, and chainsaw maniacs from Texas.

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[info]welfy
2008-08-20 10:36 pm UTC (link)
I wish I was there with you, right now.

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-20 10:38 pm UTC (link)
If memory serves, you kinda were. I had talked you only about an hour before that but lost my signal when I left the town I was in. ;-)

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[info]metalliman502
2008-08-20 11:20 pm UTC (link)
the countryside out there is beutiful. as for the smoking thing i found that in Texas the law is different from town to town. rather quite annoying really

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Custom kitchen delivereyeeyeey
[info]stormodacentury
2008-08-20 11:48 pm UTC (link)
It's good to see you back.

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[info]soopageek
2008-08-21 12:38 am UTC (link)
I think I just needed a break from this place. It was very refreshing.

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[info]atthestarz
2008-08-21 02:15 am UTC (link)
Rainbows and sparkly clouds!

*deletes rant about smokers* :P

I wish I could take pictures all day.

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[info]gonadsandstrife
2008-08-21 01:25 pm UTC (link)
Whenever my dad saw streams of light breaking through clouds like in that last shot, he'd always point & say, "There's Charlton Heston."

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[info]nursemae
2008-08-21 02:42 pm UTC (link)
I really enjoyed driving/shooting pics in NM. I can't wait to do it again soon!

Gorgeous shots, I hope you aren't there for too long!

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