Road Photos 2024 B

Away is sometimes a clear destination.  On the way to away, I stop where impulse commands me. 

Earlier this week my partner-in-crime and I headed away.  The first stop was the Walkway, a repurposed 1889 rail way bridge.  Below is a view I took 15 years ago while the pedestrian way was being created.

No commercial traffic was in view for miles in either direction earlier this week, yet . . . check out these swirls.  They made me think the pattern was due to the large props of a vessel, yet

here outside the channel I was puzzled that one that bubbled to the surface as we watched.  Anyone explain?  Turtle?  Sturgeon? Plesiosaur?

Because it had been too long that I last visited the Hudson River Maritime Museum, we stopped in, in part to see

this exhibit, referred to at the end of this post.  If you’ve not seen it, check it out.  More on Peter K. Eagleton here.

At Kingston, we cut into the Catskills and headed for Roxbury, where John Burroughs grew up and even went to school with Jay Gould!  Unlikely as it may seem, Burroughs could be a minor saint of road trips and road photos.  Road trip attire was certainly very different back then.

Arizona may have Antelope Canyon, but Howe Caverns is a spectacular tribute to water as well.   

A river called Styx runs through the caves, and a boat ride to Lake Venus is superb.  I was fortunate to be seated in acting bow on the outbound leg.

Evening fell, we sat and watched darkness descend, fireflies light up.  It had been too long since I last  roasted hotdogs on a stick, turned this foam into s’mores, and perfumed myself with wood smoke.

A reminder: sometimes the best road trip scenery is under the road, as is the case under the NY 30 bridge at Mine Kill Falls.

And other road creatures, some of them just watch from the sidelines, while

others figure in re-enactments, like this Bones and Roses truck.

All photos, any errors, every single word of praise, WVD.

Here was yesterday’s Catskills surprise post.  Here was 2024 part A.

A photo by Peter Eagleton was posted here in 2017.