A Foggy Day on Top of Whiteface Mountain (Wilmington, NY) – June 2011

 Yeah, the same opening paragraph you’ve read before.  Some of these pictures were posted originally with the travel blog write-up (original link below).  Now instead of a select few, I’m sharing just about all the pictures.  Some blurry or bad shots were removed, as well as some with others who would appreciate not having their pictures posted again.  Please be sure to visit the original blog link for more details of the original visit.

 As it was a clear day at the lower elevation, but when we got to the top of Whiteface Mountain it had become very foggy.  That cut down on the visibility.  I was really hoping to capture some pictures which really showed the distance of how far you could view from the top.  Driving up the mountain requires you to go up the Veteran’s Memorial Highway, and there was a nice lodge at the top.  From there you could get a little higher either via a small elevator within the mountain, or by some stairs up the exterior.  You know I went for the stairs.

 You see a couple pictures of me holding a magazine.  That was Where When How, which was published by the Turks & Caicos Islands tourism board.  It was a contest to have your picture taken with the magazine in a “far away” location to get a free subscription.  One of the pictures here got me my third free subscription.  While the views I could see were great, the highlight of the trip was spending the time with my parents.

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A Drive-Up Whiteface Mountain (Wilmington, NY) – June 2011

 Yeah, the same opening paragraph you’ve read before.  Some of these pictures were posted originally with the travel blog write-up (original link below).  Now instead of a select few, I’m sharing just about all the pictures.  Some blurry or bad shots were removed, as well as some with others who would appreciate not having their pictures posted again.  Please be sure to visit the original blog link for more details of the original visit.

 There’s an old ideal about “being a tourist in the city where you live,” as you get to experience things perhaps you haven’t seen.  That also applies for when you come back to an area where you used to live.  There’s always sights to see when you’re there, but you end up doing other shit so you never end up going to them.  So when I had the opportunity to come back to my old stomping grounds, I wanted to visit places I haven’t been to before, or it had been a while since I’d been to them.

 My last visit to Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondack Park was circa 2000.  I remember driving up to the top and having my picture taken by the elevation sign, but that was about it.  That was also in the “film camera” days, so I didn’t take a lot of pictures.  On this trip, I wanted to capture the majesty of the mountains.  Sure enough, it decided to be foggy as shit that day.  You can see by the pictures it was partly cloudy when we started on this trip, and it just got foggy later.  You do get to see some of the Adirondack Park from these pictures, but not the full extent.

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Chisholm Trail Park (Round Rock, TX) – March 2011

 Yeah, the same opening paragraph you’ve read before.  Some of these pictures were posted originally with the travel blog write-up (original link below).  Now instead of a select few, I’m sharing just about all the pictures.  Some blurry or bad shots were removed, as well as some with others who would appreciate not having their pictures posted again.  Please be sure to visit the original blog link for more details of the original visit.

 Since we ended up spending the day revisiting places, this was a good one for a brief stop-over.  It hadn’t been that long since I’d last taken them here (a couple years), but it was nice to see the parts of the Chisholm Trail Park.  The water level was a little bit lower since the last time we were here, so we were able to see more of the actual “round rock” that the city was named after.  People I know who’ve lived in this city all their lives didn’t even know about this hidden gem.  It’s good to find things like this to visit.

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