#PhotoOfTheDay is of the interior of Howard Hugh's enormous Spruce Goose aircraft. This photo is from up front and looking toward the back, with a helpful mannequin staged inside for scale.
#PhotoOfTheDay is a 3rd and final interesting aerospace tire, this being one in a full-scale replica moon buggy complete with tires protected from sharp moon rocks by high tech chainmail wraps!
#PhotoOfTheDay is another wild #aerospace tire... SR-71 tires with embedded aluminum powder to survive the high heat. And filled with nitrogen to 425psi! Whoa! 😮
Photo taken at the outstanding Evergreen Aviation Museum on Oregon.
#photoOfTheDay shows off the tire information for a very unusual vehicle - the NASA Space Shuttle. On display at the superb Evergreen Aviation Museum on Oregon.
#photoOfTheDay is of a cool old "OCCULT AND MYSTICAL BOOK CENTER" and "lending library, band and orchestra(!)" sign in an architectural salvage shop in Oregon. The professor was a Rosicrucian, and although we weren't into the mystical order, for 25 years we were frequent visitors to their excellent Egyptian museum in San Jose, California.
OCCULT AND MYSTICAL
BOOK CENTER
PROFESSOR N COLANGELO
PLAYER PIANOS
VIOLINS, STRING & BAND INSTRUMENTS NORTHLAND &MAJESTIC RADIOS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
LENDING LIBRARY
BAND AND ORCHESTRA
PROFESSOR N. COLANGELO
TEACHER and COMPOSER
AMORC
ROSICRUCIAN ORDER
Meetings, 2nd: and 4th. Friday
#PhotoOfTheDay is a simple family selfie taken at Badwater Basin while spending several days camping, offroading and exploring in Death Valley, California back in 2012 I think. This is the lowest elevation in North America.
A small family stands behind the wood national park sign for Badwater Basin, while the basin itself stretches out in the background until mountains rise in the distance.
#PhotoOfTheDay is a GoPro capture from up on the roof rack of my Land Cruiser while exploring another rural backroad on the Oregon coast. The river on the right is the Siletz, IIRC.
Discover McWay Falls, a stunning coastal waterfall in Big Sur, California, cascading directly into the Pacific Ocean in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.
Discover McWay Falls, a stunning coastal waterfall in Big Sur, California, cascading directly into the Pacific Ocean in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.
A color landscape photo looking down a long straight two lane road in a desert landscape. The landscape is reddish colored and dotted with light green sagebrush. The landscape on both sides of the road is shadowed by clouds. In the distance are several jagged blocky highly eroded sandstone formations. A couple of the large sandstone blocks have eroded into thin tall spires. Morning sunlight is breaking through and lighting the formations. The sky over the formations is mostly blue but clouds can be seen at the top and mostly in the upper left.
A color landscape photo of an abandoned roadside building that may have been a gas station or gift shop or both. An eroded road surface is in the foreground. It sweeps up to the center of the photo and off to the right. On the left is the building, a long single story white stucco with several openings for windows and one opening for a door. The windows and doors are long gone. A wide rose colored stripe is painted below the flat roof and just above the door and window openings. The building is covered in colorful graffiti. On the right, in the background, a tall wooden arrow appears stuck in the ground as though it flew in from the left at a great height.
I've shared Part Three of A Dog and Van Road Trip, the account of Jet and my journey home from Uluru to Sydney. One of my favourite photos accompanies the post. ❤️🐶
A small two-section Mammillaria cactus growing from rocky desert soil at Lake Colorado City State Park. The cactus is green and covered in evenly spaced white spines, standing out against the muted brown ground and scattered twigs.
An old blue van racing through the emptiness – a perfect symbol of freedom and an endless road ahead. Dust rising behind it, the sun burning down, and the horizon stretching forever. The perfect scene for anyone who knows the best adventures start where the pavement ends.
#PhotoOfTheDay is of the suspended walkway that led to our treehouse room that we stayed in waaaaay up in a tree on the Oregon-California border. I had surprised the family with us staying overnight in what we jokingly called "Endor."
#PhotoOfTheDay is of "that hill" as seen from Zubriskie Point in Death Valley National Park. This was taken back in 2011 I think, but I was reminded of it by yesterday's fantastic photo of the same hill by
@elaterite.
A black and white landscape photo of a desert landscape on the side of a rugged rocky hill. The rugged hillside is covered in woody creosote bush and tall saguaro cactus. Many of the cacti are just single trunks, but a cluster of them in the upper left have multiple arms. The sky is a dark gray due to processing.