Quick Trip to Texas via New Mexico

Pictures from a quick trip to Texas via New Mexico April 2018

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Hard to tell from the photo, but this is 20 feet high and 40 feet long. 

Made from recycled materials. (like tennis shoes and cell phones)

Predawn at Las Cruces, NM

They claim it is the world's largest chili pepper.  

I did not have a tape measure with me to verify.

♪  ♫Out in the West Texas town of El Paso...  ♪♫

Pecos, TX

I did not realize Roy was a notary.

(click the photo if you do not see what I am referring to)

Based on other rabbits I saw, I believe this is life-sized.

Timeless.

You have to watch your foot'n on this street.

The chips are down.

They claim this is the largest shovel in Texas.  

Again, I did not have my tape measure to verify.

Leaning Tower of Texas

View of Texas out my passenger window.

They really have a thing for partially burying things at an angle in Texas.

Slug Bugs

Combine City

Cadillac Ranch

Even a boat partially buried at an angle.

Tex Randall

McDonald's in Roswell.

I am thinking the aliens did surveillance before coming to Roswell.  

They figured they could fit in with the people there without being noticed.

Claimed to be the world's largest pistachio.

Again, I did not have my tape measure to verify.

Quick Trip to Hawaii

Pictures from a quick trip to Oahu

September 2017

At Ala Moana Park

Diamond head / Waikiki

King Kamehameha I 

Halona Blowhole Lookout

Hanuama Bay

View at Kualoa Ranch

Nu'uanu Pali Lookout

Flora at Dole Plantation

USS Arizona Memorial

Old Glory flying over USS Arizona

North Shore Shark Adventure
(swimming with sharks)

North Shore Shark Adventure
(swimming with sharks)

Snorkeling at Hanuama Bay

Snorkeling at Hanuama Bay

Snorkeling at Hanuama Bay

Bark on Rainbow Eucalyptus 

Cracking a Macadamia Nut with a rock

Sunset on the Pacific

They say a big portion of Hawaii's economy is tourism - yet
I did not see one out-of-state license plate.

Northeastern US Trip

August 2017 trip to Northeastern US.   Nine states in 11 days!
(New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and Pennsylvania)

The Bull on Wall Street.
 This was then second picture I took on the trip.
The first was coming up from behind the bull....

World Trade Center

Red Cube

 9/11 Memorial

In Central Park

Lady Liberty

Manhattan Skyline from the Staten Island Ferry

In the Guggenheim

 

View from the stage of The Music Box

You have to know somebody to get this camera shot...

Green Animals Topiary Garden, Newport, Rhode Island

Green Animals Topiary Garden, Newport, Rhode Island

Quincy, Massachusetts

Boston Tea Party

Samuel Adams

Boston skyline at dusk.

Paul Revere

Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse at Fort Constitution (NH)

 View from the Wendameen  (Portland, Maine)

 Crystal Cascades at Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire

 The reason for the trip (Waterbury, VT)

Liberty Bell

Rodin's The Thinker

Independence Hall 

  The steps that made Rocky famous.

  

In Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, PA