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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 09:33:31 PM

Title: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 09:33:31 PM
Greetings one and all.  So, as previously alluded to, a few weeks ago, I went on an epic road trip from Toronto to California and back.

Now that I've gotten things settled being back, I figured I should share some imagery of the trip with y'all.

Now, this won't be as wordy and self-indulgent as EviLore's European travels, nor as fascinating and insightful as originalz' North Korea trip, but I think you still might enjoy the photos.

If you like pics of cars, jet fighters, and landscapes, that is.

So, without further ado, 10,000 kilometres in a handful of posts:

First stop:  Chicago.  First difference I discovered:  It is much harder to find a bar in downtown Chicago that shows UFC fights than it is in downtown Toronto.  Also, that Chicago has way more homeless on the street than does Toronto.  But their waterfront is very pretty.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/1-1.jpg)


Iowa and Nebraska are flat:
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/2-1.jpg)

But have windmills:
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/3-1.jpg)


Second night was in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Really not much to say.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/4-1.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 09:34:33 PM
Shit, those are kinda too big, aren't they?
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 09:45:33 PM
Anyhow, third night was Denver.  Very impressive city centre, but again, lots of homeless people and shifty types all over the gawdamned place.

(http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/545703_10101400937442212_1504197109_n.jpg)

In Denver, I caught a Gaslight Anthem/Rise Against show.

On the way from Denver, I decided to abandon the Interstate as much as possible.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/5.jpg)

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This valley is where the US 10th Mountain Division trained in the Second World War.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/7.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 09:58:22 PM
On the advice of a friend, I took the Independence Pass through the Rockies, which is either the highest or second highest paved road through the Rockies.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/52754_10101400938355382_384649500_o.jpg)

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This is a look down at my route up to the peak.  Yeah, hairpin turn on a sheer cliff.  My friend neglected to mention the "holy shit" factor of this route.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/614995_10101400938739612_1902887816_o.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/201139_10101400938844402_539822999_o.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 02, 2012, 10:05:15 PM
The Canadian version of originalz's North Korea thread.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 10:10:10 PM
And of course, I just have to drive through the Utah desert on the one day a year that half the state is experiencing a torrential downpour.  Here is a pic of the impending dread, knowing that I have to pass through this wall of rain:

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/8.jpg)

But it eventually cleared up:

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/9.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/10.jpg)

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This one was just a "point the camera out the window without looking" shot.  But I like it.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/12.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 10:22:11 PM
Next stop was Vegas for a few nights, where Boogie was joined by his steadfast travelling companion.

Here we see Boogie's steadfast travelling companion fanning himself with a stack of hundred dollar bills like an asshole:

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/621427_10101400951753532_1218789847_o.jpg)

And then making paper airplanes out of said hundred dollar bills:
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(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/134546_10101400952018002_1170233140_o.jpg)

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There were more photos in this sequence, but you get the idea.

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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 10:26:36 PM
After Vegas, it was time to drive to SoCal.

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Kids chasing a pigeon.  This was just funny.
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Long Beach Aquarium.  Good for some high-res shots with my old man's camera.
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Barry Egan on November 02, 2012, 10:30:38 PM
Is there any possibility of scaling these pictures down?
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 10:33:03 PM
Hiking at Will Rogers state park:

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/22.jpg)

Boogie's steadfast travelling companion:

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/23.jpg)

Mountain lions.  Actually saw quite a lot of droppings for said mountain lions.
(http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/46538_10101400955960102_1120357365_n.jpg)


Apparently, LA is smoggy.  Who knew?
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/24.jpg)


For Shaka  :-*
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 10:34:07 PM
Is there any possibility of scaling these pictures down?

What, you don't all browse the board on giant-ass monitors like I do?


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Yeah, I'll work on it  :-[
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: T234 on November 02, 2012, 10:40:32 PM
So how was the coke and weed compared to back home?  ;)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 10:46:54 PM
So how was the coke and weed compared to back home?  ;)

Now now, this was a pleasure trip, not business. ;)

I did have a limo driver in Vegas, who, when told we were heading to San Fran, was about to suggest to me a good medical marijuana hook-up, when I had to cut him off and tell him what I did for a living.  :lol
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 11:02:45 PM
:bow Boogie :bow2

If you were to show up in Montana I would have bought you a drink or two  ;)

And I would have gladly accepted.

Unfortunately, Montana was a little too far north for me to swing a detour.  In fact, as much as I am generally up for meeting Borians, I had to keep to a pretty strict itinerary.  You'd think that three weeks to cross a continent and back would allow for some flexibility, but I kept up a pretty busy pace.

edit:  is that a bit better, Chip?

Anyhow, I think I'll call it a night there when it comes to photos, at about the halfway point of the trip.  More to come, of course.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 02, 2012, 11:05:52 PM
I didn't know you swung the steadfast traveling companion way.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Barry Egan on November 02, 2012, 11:07:54 PM
Yea thanks man.  Looks like you're having fun doin thangs  8)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 02, 2012, 11:18:42 PM
I didn't know you swung the steadfast traveling companion way.

Five years ago, I spent six months in a common barracks with 23 other men.  I don't know why this would surprise you.  :P
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 02, 2012, 11:22:08 PM
Ya but that was in Saskatchewan.  It's the thing to do there. 
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: T234 on November 03, 2012, 12:10:26 AM
These look like stills from a Hyundai Genesis ad campaign.

I'm glad you had fun in America, Boogie. Too bad you didn't end up in some nightmarish drive in the south of stumbled into the underworld of drugs and sex trafficking. Probably would've gotten better adventures.

He never showed up here. >:(

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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: tiesto on November 03, 2012, 12:12:35 AM
You should have come to NY... before it turned into armageddon at least :P
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on November 03, 2012, 07:51:54 AM
Good pictures.

The company I work for runs that wind farm that you posted for the Iowa picture.  That looks like the wind farm that is right in the middle between Des Moines and Omaha.  That means you must have went on Interstate 80.  We should have met up and grabbed some lunch.  Maybe next time.

Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: nudemacusers on November 03, 2012, 09:01:46 AM
looks like fun, i wanna road trip this summer.

:bow Boogie :bow2

If you were to show up in Montana I would have bought you a drink or two  ;)
i thought i was the only person in montana on the internet.  :'(
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: nudemacusers on November 03, 2012, 09:32:00 AM
Great Falls
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: G The Resurrected on November 03, 2012, 10:29:38 AM
You should have come to the bay area man. I could have shown you some awesome driving roads... Glad to see you made it to Emerica, those pictures are pretty cool.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 03, 2012, 12:23:00 PM
Where are the fat people at Wal-mart? You haven't really seen America yet.

Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:13:20 PM
Good pictures.

The company I work for runs that wind farm that you posted for the Iowa picture.  That looks like the wind farm that is right in the middle between Des Moines and Omaha.  That means you must have went on Interstate 80.  We should have met up and grabbed some lunch.  Maybe next time.

Shit, sorry man.  I didn't think that I had any Borians on my route through flyover country.  I totally would have been up for lunch with you.  My bad.

You should have come to the bay area man. I could have shown you some awesome driving roads... Glad to see you made it to Emerica, those pictures are pretty cool.

I did hit the Bay area.  The original inspiration/spark for the trip was a college friend's wedding in Half Moon Bay.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:20:39 PM
aaaand more photos.

On the way from SoCal, sticking to the Pacific Coast Highway.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/26.jpg)

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Stopped for a night in Morro Bay.  The next morning, went to the Marina, where we saw a yacht which seemed to have had an....accident at sea.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/28.jpg)

I kept forgetting my sunglasses, resulting in many squinty-eyed photos.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/29.jpg)

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Spying on ur coast guard
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:23:25 PM
Saw this car in Morro Bay.  Pretty much how I imagine every Ron Paul supporter.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/33.jpg)

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Elephant seals!  Took probably a hundred photos of them sunbathing here.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/35.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/36.jpg)

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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 04, 2012, 06:33:57 PM
RONPAUL2012
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:40:20 PM
Now, a few words about San Francisco.

I was psyched to visit San Fran.    Everybody always talks it up, that it's this amazing city to live in, etc.  But you know what?  I was not impressed.  My hotel was in a sketch part of town, different areas I was told to check out were sketchy as well, and while I was able to find some nice parts of town, they seemed in the minority.  So ya, San Francisco has a lot of character, but as a city to live in, it left a lot to be desired.  Sorry, 'Friscans, but your town is not "The City" to me.


Anyhow, that negativity aside, a preamble to the next group of photos.  Unknown to me at the time of starting out, it turns out that the weekend of my friend's wedding was also Fleet Week, the highlight of which is the Air Show.  When this was pointed out to me, I geeked out like mad.

Growing up, I loooooooved fighter planes.  London, Ontario used to have a great air show which I attended every year as a kid.  I've seen the Snowbirds (Canada's flight demonstration squadron) fly dozens of times, and even saw the USAF Thunderbirds once.  But I had never seen the Blue Angels, and the F-18 was always my favourite jet.  As a teenager, I was even going to try my damnedest to be a fighter pilot, until the Canadian Forces recruiter told me that I needed 20/20 uncorrected vision.  A shortlived dream, it was.

So, needless to say, the opportunity to see the Air Show in San Francisco during Fleet Week, headlined by the Blue Angels, was an absolute dream for me.  I probably took about 600 photos the day of the air show.  On the Friday beforehand, though, I went on a Bay cruise, during which some of the jets were doing test flights.

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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:45:54 PM
The famous Lombard Street.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/49.jpg)

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Skateboarder dude who boarded all the way down the street:
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(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/52.jpg)

Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:48:09 PM
Now, the air show proper.

Heritage flight.  F-22, F-16, and P-51 Mustang.
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/53.jpg)

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I had also never seen the F-22 fly in person before.  Was a treat.
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:49:46 PM
Aaand the Blue Angels.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/61.jpg)

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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:51:02 PM
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 06:59:13 PM
From San Francisco, the long route back.  Overnighted in Reno, and from there, again said "fuck the Interstate" and drove what Time magazine called "The Loneliest Highway in America", the US-50 through Nevada.

And as empty as it was, it was also incredible to drive through such vast valleys and basins.  I don't really have photos of that leg, unfortunately.    My buddy took photos with his camera, and I still need to exchange photos with him.

The bustling metropolis of Reno far in the background.
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 04, 2012, 07:06:41 PM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/34.jpg)

"Made in USA" sticker on a Mercedes-Benz. :lol
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 07:13:18 PM
The next day took us through northern Utah and Southern Wyoming.

The pictures don't really do the vast expanse justice.

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Through Wyoming, we stopped in Cheyenne overnight.  Got dinner at an Outback Steakhouse at a truckstop area.    At the bar were a bunch of trucker/hunter types chattering back and forth.  At first, it was innocent enough, trucking stories, stories of the oil boom in the Dakotas.  But eventually, they start talking about sketchy areas they've driven through, and one of them says that, even here in Cheyenne, he took a wrong turn and found himself in "the Hood."

Now, I thought at first he was just using "The Hood" as a generic term.  But then the response from a hunter from New Jersey was "Oh Really?  I didn't think you had Them here."

 :o

And it got worse from there.   "You got welfare here in Wyoming?  No?  Cause we have welfare back home and we have lots of Them there.  Anywhere you got welfare, you're gonna have lots of Them."

And I'm thinking "holy shit!  Honest-to-God out-in-public Racists!  He may not be saying the N-word out loud, but he's sure as hell thinking it!"


And that's about the whole trip.  Went through Chicago again on the way back.
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I might update with more photos when I got a hold of my buddy's pics, but that's about the gist of it.
Title: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Huff on November 04, 2012, 08:21:54 PM
Had you never really heard blatant racism in public before? 
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 08:27:11 PM
Had you never really heard blatant racism in public before?

I don't think so.  Not like that, and not from anyone under the age of 65, in any case.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 04, 2012, 08:28:25 PM
Its rare in Canada.  I am in one of the most racist regions and I've only heard it on a few occasions, directed towards natives.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: T234 on November 04, 2012, 08:39:57 PM
I was walking past a couch fire one time and an old guy said "The only things we burned when I was a kid was Crosses and our trash."  :-\
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 04, 2012, 08:41:20 PM
thats a lot of pictures of your car
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 04, 2012, 08:42:26 PM
That's only because his car is nicer than America. 
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 08:43:22 PM
thats a lot of pictures of your car

From the OP

"If you like pics of cars, jet fighters, and landscapes, that is."

I guess I should have specified that by "cars"  I meant "my car."  ;)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 04, 2012, 08:54:42 PM
Canadians are so sheltered it's cute. Our glorious cities are "sketchy" and the people in our heartland are "racist".  :heart

To be honest I think it's just that we are use to living in a country with first world social conditions.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 08:59:30 PM
Well, welcome to the real world, northern neighbors! If you want a real surprise keep driving south.  :-\

I've seen that episode of Top Gear.  I'll pass, thanks.  :P

also:

Canadians are so sheltered it's cute. Our glorious cities are "sketchy"

Nonsense.  New York kicks ass.  :-[
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 04, 2012, 09:50:55 PM
All I'm saying is, four days in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn was less sketch than three days in San Francisco.  Maybe it was just the areas I saw, but Japantown/little Saigon was shit, as was the Mission District. 

Whereas nothing I saw from midtown Manhattan  and south, or downtown Brooklyn to Prospect Park made me bat an eye.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: T234 on November 04, 2012, 11:36:23 PM
If you thought SF was at all sketch, you should've visited the west and south sides of Chicago. Or Oakland. Or Florida. Or Baltimore. Or New Orleans. Or New Jersey.

There are places in America that make SF look downright Canadian in terms of sketch. Or if you want a real culture shock, cross the border to our south. The most dangerous place in Canada is safer than the safest place in Mexico.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 04, 2012, 11:40:22 PM
Should have gone to Chicago and reenacted Due South
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Post by: T234 on November 04, 2012, 11:41:16 PM
 :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: CrystalGemini on November 05, 2012, 06:17:39 AM
Maybe it was just the areas I saw, but Japantown/little Saigon was shit, as was the Mission District. 

DUDE.  Japantown?  You mean GHOSTTOWN?  That place is overrun by Chinese merchants and otakus.  It's fine to go to just to say you've been there though.  And little Saigon is in the middle of the Tenderloin so...yeah....  Mission District could be ghetto depending on where you go.  It's kind of like Market Street - the high end are mixed right in with the dregs of society.  There really aren't any dividing lines, which is kind of what I like about the city.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on November 05, 2012, 07:40:10 AM
Boogie, thats basicly a dream of mine you did there. Awesome stuff.
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Post by: Fifstar on November 05, 2012, 08:08:39 AM
Yep, so envious. Loving those shots of the big wide landscapes.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: chronovore on November 06, 2012, 01:42:41 AM
Boogie was in NoCal during motherfucking Fleet Week, and I didn't buy him a beer?

FFFUUU...
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Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: etiolate on November 06, 2012, 01:50:58 AM
Scared by a little bit of vagabond life in Denver and San Fran.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Positive Touch on November 06, 2012, 01:55:00 AM
for real :lol all i can think of is what boogie woulda thought of good ol st louis
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: T234 on November 06, 2012, 02:07:47 PM
for real :lol all i can think of is what boogie woulda thought of good ol st louis

Especially if he crossed the river going east.  :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2012, 02:11:49 PM
Crossing the river going east sounds like a euphemism. 
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on November 06, 2012, 05:28:27 PM
Scared by a little bit of vagabond life in Denver and San Fran.

My use of sketch was not meant to imply fear, just that the areas were run down/dirty/shitty-looking/whatever.

If you thought SF was at all sketch, you should've visited the west and south sides of Chicago. Or Oakland. Or Florida. Or Baltimore. Or New Orleans. Or New Jersey.

Yes, but I would expect those areas to look shitty. 


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There are places in America that make SF look downright Canadian in terms of sketch. Or if you want a real culture shock, cross the border to our south. The most dangerous place in Canada is safer than the safest place in Mexico.

Thank you for explaining that to me, Thor.  I wouldn't have been able to know or guess that from the fact that Mexico's homicide rate is literally fourteen times that of Canada.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: etiolate on November 06, 2012, 05:31:43 PM
Next time you come to America, we'll take you on a tour of all the nice gated communities.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: G The Resurrected on November 06, 2012, 05:44:52 PM
Next time you come to America, we'll take you on a tour of all the nice gated communities.

We should take him to one of those exclusive affluent gated communities, you know the ones in Oakland.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 11, 2013, 11:47:11 PM

WISE FROM YO GRAVE!

But first,



DUDE.  Japantown?  You mean GHOSTTOWN?  That place is overrun by Chinese merchants and otakus.  It's fine to go to just to say you've been there though.  And little Saigon is in the middle of the Tenderloin so...yeah.... 

I should clarify, I wasn't in that area due to its own merits. That's just where the "four star" hotel I booked through hotwire landed me at.



Anyhowwwww, I got some of the photos from my travelling companion, and will share them now.  They are not of a fundamentally different character from what you have already seen, but still, I'm posting them.   But I'm afraid I will still have to keep the most incriminating...interesting photos to myself.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010535_zpsf7a66a2a.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010539_zps2989e3ee.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010545_zps0c872491.jpg)
Yes, we are geeks.


(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010546_zpsc3111724.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010547_zps9dee6e1c.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 11, 2013, 11:49:43 PM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010687_zps6cec4679.jpg)

I did not appreciate pictures taken for the sole purpose of highlighting my thinning hair.  >:(

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010884_zps56825f68.jpg)

I was definitely jealous of how many classic cars were around in California.  It's amazing how cars can be kept in good quality when you don't have to deal with four months of snowstorms and sub-zero temperatures...

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020447_zpsac0eed2a.jpg)

Playing around with night settings...

Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 11, 2013, 11:51:13 PM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020456_zpsb5066719.jpg)

Reno in all its....err.....glory?


(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020481_zpsafce7b1a.jpg)

The beginning of the "Loneliest Highway in America", Highway 50.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020517_zps603f2f2c.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020518_zps84e44459.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020520_zpsb6bd2479.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 11, 2013, 11:56:37 PM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020528_zps49c814c5.jpg)

Note the sign.  There were signs for almost every herd animal you could think of.  Warning you about free-range cattle, deer, sheep, elk, reindeer, and lord knows what else.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020602_zpsaec5f8af.jpg)

However, at about the Utah/Wyoming border, I discovered some suicidal deer that were determined to kill me.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020603_zps800d909f.jpg)

I slowed to a crawl, waiting for the deer to pass.  Since they just stared at me, I assumed it was safe to continue.  As I accelerated, the above occurred.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020529_zpsb79ef748.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 11, 2013, 11:59:12 PM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020531_zpsd3faf972.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020537_zps1b434979.jpg)

I regret not being able to detour to Bonneville, for my dad's sake. (he's a huge drag racing fan.)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020539_zps3d414f5d.jpg)

The stupidity of technology.  When I was about an hour from Salt Lake City, my car's GPS decided it was smarter to take me on a nearly 7-hour detour.  I did not take this advice.


(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020548_zps035c409e.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 12, 2013, 12:00:24 AM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020555_zps047a2033.jpg)

Mountainous hairpin turn.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020558_zps55b20b59.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020559_zps1e1de218.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020618_zps116ecbeb.jpg)

Like I said.  Geeeeeeks.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 12, 2013, 12:01:58 AM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020620_zps23d53d8a.jpg)

I let my companion drive.  Very briefly.  On a very flat and straight stretch of highway.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020622_zps95af5bc6.jpg)

Collision.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020625_zps52b30f47.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020629_zpsbda45b0a.jpg)

the second city.

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020631_zps91c11d45.jpg)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 12, 2013, 12:03:46 AM
aaaand the final attempts at dramatic night-time shots:

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020639_zps1ba11ced.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020644_zpsaf2aa9e4.jpg)

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020648_zpsaf3518ec.jpg)

Thanks, y'all, it was amazing.  There's no way that was the last time that I drive across the Rockies, or up the PCH.  Was just too incredible.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 12, 2013, 12:05:29 AM
Nice pictures, Boogie.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 12, 2013, 12:30:01 AM

(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1020539_zps3d414f5d.jpg)

The stupidity of technology.  When I was about an hour from Salt Lake City, my car's GPS decided it was smarter to take me on a nearly 7-hour detour.  I did not take this advice.

You know what's even stupider? The metric system. 'Murikan roads are paved by the mile, commie.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 12, 2013, 12:36:18 AM
If I were a commie, I wouldn't have risked hitting a top speed of censored along the US-50, good sir!
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 12, 2013, 12:51:47 AM
If I were a commie, I wouldn't have risked hitting a top speed of censored along the US-50, good sir!
The capitalist pigs give you so little time off of work that you are forced to speed around to enjoy your vacation.  :ussrcry

Communists aren't against speeding. It's just that the GAZ Volgsa can't go over 30 an hour.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2013, 01:07:43 AM
(http://i687.photobucket.com/albums/vv235/iamboog/P1010687_zps6cec4679.jpg)

bold spot?
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 12, 2013, 01:13:29 AM
A)  Bald spot.

B) You clearly missed the line where I self-deprecatingly referred to same.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2013, 01:16:21 AM
I did miss that.  Also fuck the letter 'a'.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Flannel Boy on January 12, 2013, 01:53:15 AM
The awkward moment when we realize he really meant blind spot.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: chronovore on January 12, 2013, 11:55:57 AM
Nice shots, Boogie!
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Boogie on January 13, 2013, 11:19:39 PM
Nice shots, Boogie!

Nice pictures, Boogie.


I'm not sure if I should say "thanks guys!" when this last batch wasn't even taken by me! :lol
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: Don Flamenco on January 14, 2013, 10:40:19 AM
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It is much harder to find a bar in downtown Chicago that shows UFC fights than it is in downtown Toronto. 


Downtown just kind of sucks after 5pm.  That's kind of a weird thing tourists sometimes miss-- downtown is where people work and there aren't really a lot of places open at night aside from expensive restaurants and expensive bars. 

Everything is happening north+northwest of downtown.  directly west and south of downtown doesn't have a lot going on and *parts* are sketchy.  Enough parts that you wouldn't want to just wander aimlessly and the non-sketchy parts are just blue collar suburb-ish areas, anyway.
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: drew on January 14, 2013, 11:37:40 AM
Well, welcome to the real world, northern neighbors! If you want a real surprise keep driving south.  :-\

or North! to Michigan, where you can purchase a 12 gauge while your car fills up. (BP in Reading, MI)
Title: Re: There and back again: Boogie drives across America.
Post by: drew on January 14, 2013, 12:25:25 PM
I ain't no guero, mayate.  Mah Hinterland est Hungary, Mah Hinter est dark avec hair.