Recover some pics from our 2010 roadtrip

These were in an old album of mine called 'Other Social Networks'.
Most/all picasaweb pictures are lost in the winds, unfortunately.

content/blog/1000-miles.md

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 After breakfast at Waffle House we set the satnav to direct us to Midland, TX, where we were hoping to see some pumpjacks. Turns out West Texas is one big oilfield, so there were pumpjacks just about everywhere we looked. Pim took some very nice photos well before reaching Midland so we then decided to drive to Santa Fe, NM. But wait! Roswell! We have to check out the UFOs and the aliens there, so another detour it is.
 
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 Arriving in Roswell at 4:30pm (wait, make that 3:30pm since the state border between Texas and New Mexico brought us from Central to Mountain time) we park our car and visit the International UFO Museum and Research Center there. It's a bit of a disappointment, we did not see a single alien nor pieces of the "weather balloon" that supposedly crashed in the area. We leave the museum still uncertain whether there is life outside of our planet.
 
 So it's about 5pm and we're in Roswell, New Mexico. What to do? We're not hungry yet and are still up for some touring. Santa Fe is programmed into the satnav, 193 miles from Roswell. This is mostly the 285 where the speed limit is 70 mph most of the time (75 in some places) so we make good progress and arrive in Santa Fe at 8pm. We check in to the local Motel 6 and ask the friendly lady at the desk for some gastronomical advice, as by now we are quite hungry. She recommends Tortilla Flats which is conveniently close to the motel. After dropping our bags off in the room, we go there and enjoy some very nice fajitas.
 
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 Over dinner we discuss today's travels. We realize that we've driven almost 1000 miles in the 24 hours since we landed at DFW, about 1500 kilometers since we woke up in Weatherford. By now, we're quite experienced roadtrippers :)
 
 Location: [Santa Fe, NM](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Santa%20Fe,%20NM)
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 After yesterday's trip, this was of course inevitable: we've hit 4096 miles just now. It's just after 1pm and we're coming up on Thoreau, NM. We're not expecting to hit the next step during this roadtrip :)
 
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 Location : [Continental Divide, NM 87312](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Continental%20Divide,%20NM%2087312)
 
 **Posted by Pim van Pelt at 12:18 PM**

content/blog/canyons.md

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 The next scheduled flight in a helicopter that sits 7 people was at 12:30pm. So we went off to Tusayan, the neighboring town, to find some brunch, as we had about 90min to kill before we had to check in for our flight. We had a great salad (Pim) and BLT (Paul) at a local cafe and walked back to the car, drove to the airport at 11:45 and hung out there for a bit. At 12:15 our pilot stepped into the room, actually there were five pilots and quite a few folks to take a tour. Our flight had 6 people in it. I took the window seat (better filming position), and Paul graciously took the middle seat (which ended up having spectacular frontal and both sides' view for photos.
 
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 The flight was spectacularly awesome. At times, the chopper would yaw and pitch and drop a few feet, but when this happened I was looking at the pilot who was just glancing around the environment and generally enjoying himself, so I figured this is all a part of helicopter flight. I shot a lot of footage (I'll compose a youtube video when I get back home in Zurich, as I do not have iMovie or other editing software on my mac right now). Amongst ourselves we also took about 100 photos - some of them are very very good!! See the picture gallery for details.
 

content/blog/new-orleans.md

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 It is around 8:40 central time and we have passed 2048 mark. It feels like just yesterday that we crossed the 1024 mark. We are pretty sure that our next mark at 4096 will take a while but it is inevitable too :-)
 
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 Location : [Paulding, MS 39348](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Paulding,%20MS)
 
 **Posted by Pim van Pelt at 6:44 AM**

content/blog/rockets.md

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 We were in luck though, because it was open after all! The space center was okay i guess, but i had expected more - the Smithsonian was a little bit more elaborate and the coolest vehicles (quite a few capsules) were the real thing, ie the stuff that was actually used, but then again, those were all borrowed from the Smithsonian. This made us wonder why though .. isn't Nasa the original owner of the capsules and space vehicles? Apparently not. Then we also took a tour, which led us to mission control, where IIS was being tracked over Australia, and we saw live streams from it on a big screen, which was very cool.
 
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 We also went to the rocket park, where a Saturn V rocket was on display, and several rocket engines. Those were kind of awesome :) so I am very happy that we decided to drive a few miles (70mi or so) more to take the scenic I-10. Yaay texas.
 
 Location : [2nd St, Houston, TX 77058](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2nd%20St,%20Houston,%20TX%2077058)

content/blog/santa-cruz.md

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 Then we made our way to the beaches in SMO. We drove down, parked our car at Ocean Ave, walked over the beach to the boardwalk, made our way to the far end of the pier, and there's where I noticed that this is the westernmost point of Route 66. Yaay! We've driven route 66 for 4 states (TX, NM, AZ, CA) and seeing the end of it really is 'closure'. We bought some postcards to commemorate this.
 
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 It was now around 4:30pm so we decided to give the Google office a visit. This office was kind of quiet, so we walked around it for a while looking for faces I'd recognize, and then played a game of pool, had a drink, and took off again. We went out to each sushi - in the true sense, with three platters of 25 sashimi pieces each - they were delicious!! and I took a picture of them to send to my buddies sejo and denraf (cc Marina to tease her :).
 
 After dinner, we drove around beverly hills, bel air, and the downtown area of LA, down Sunset Blvd, and then back to our motel6 in Hollywood. It was a good "end of the journey". I say this in quotes because actually we have still 400 miles or so to go.

content/blog/tennessee.md

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 The diner we are in is called the cracker barrel and old country store. I'm loving it but not like macdonalds :) It also puts an end to my mild hangover, so i am ready to go now! West virginiaaaaaa, country mommaaaaaaaa (ehh, whatever)
 
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 Location : [10801 Battleview Pkwy, Manassas, VA 20109,](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=10801%20Battleview%20Pkwy,%20Manassas,%20VA%2020109)
 
 **Posted by Pim van Pelt at 7:15 AM**

content/blog/washington-columbia.md

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 so we got our change, dropped it into the into the meter, and allowed ourselves 2hrs to see the smithsonian museum for aviation and space. it was -awesome-. Marina and I went to the Tech in San Jose, but it was terrible: a lot of displays were broken, badly lit, very poor overall - this one however was very very good - a lot of real life planes, air craft, space craft, a replica of the UCCP first lunar mission, apollo 11 (or 17, we forget... oh wait Paul looked it up, it was 11 after all) and a lot of really awesome displays of space and avionics. I particularly enjoyed the engine technology, coming from the early days, and leading up and until the hubble satellite which, I might add, is considerably large. We took many awesome pictures - which we'll try to post tomorrow on the picasa page.
 
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 then, we drove our car to a car park up northwest of the white house, parked it (for 20$ OMG) and walked over to the white house, took the pictures we need to take to feel like real tourists, and walked down the green medow-'y parks to the american mall -and then to capitol. but while we were at it, we may as well have visited the great american history museum (also a smithsonian institute) - and we loved it! it was very meticulous, full of history and details. we learned so much about presidency, technology, people and the things that make america the great nation it is today. thank you, institute, for teaching us these things!
 
 from the smithsonian we walked to the capitol, a huge building, again full of snipers and guards, but otherwise quite friendly for tourists, and took some pictures (with normal cam and the fish eye lens). And then we cabbed it back to our car on 2021 K street.