Travel: December 2004 Archives
This sculpture was hanging in the skylights of the A terminal at Intercontinental. The setting sun made the colors stand out.
It's New Years Eve and I'm heading to Atlanta for a couple nights. Back to Charlotte on Sunday, and back to Houston on Monday. My holidays have passed in a blink.
I got to the airport well in advance of my flight last week, expecting crowds and long lines. Instead, because I was not flying Continental (which has its biggest hub in Houston), I left from the A terminal which was practically deserted. I went straight to the ticket counter and checked in and found myself with almost two hours to kill before my flight. My backpack and I were the only occupants of a row of at least 20 chairs.
I shot this on Tuesday night as Dad drove me away from the airport and towards home. Of course it's blurry, but I thought it looked neat anyway -- a classic, if unoriginal, highway shot.
Tuesday was Flickr's latest "Day in the Life" project, so I took a lot of dull pictures of what I did that day. (I'll put them together in a set and post them here hopefully before I got back to Houston.)
I posted a photo from my 2002 Scotland road trip a few days ago; this is another from the same bike trip in the Orkney Islands. We were riding along fighting a fierce headwind when we passed this spot. Finding a classic British phone booth in the middle of farmland cracked me up.
(I Photoshopped this photo for a neat effect, posted previously.)
I posted a photo from my 2002 Scotland road trip a few days ago; this is another from the same bike trip in the Orkney Islands. We were riding along fighting a fierce headwind when we passed this spot. Finding a classic British phone booth in the middle of farmland cracked me up.
(I've Photoshopped this photo, obviously, but I've also posted the original.)
In September 2002, I took a week-long road trip through Scotland with two friends. We drove from Cranfield (a small town in England) through Edinburgh, St. Andrews, past Loch Ness, and to the very northern tip of Britain. There, we took a ferry to the Orkney Islands. The weather, which had been gray and drizzly on the mainland, cleared and gave us bright and sunny skies. We rented bikes and rode a large loop around the island to visit prehistoric sites.
This is the Ring of Brodgar, a group of standing stones erected sometime between 3000 BC and 2000 BC. It was probably part of a prehistoric ritual complex, but was eventually abandoned or forgotten. Eventually it was rediscovered, and first recorded in the 1500s.
(I thought it appropriate for this week's Photo Friday topic -- abandoned.)
