Scenes on Sunday ~ Memories
sometimes, the good memories are all we have left
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
don’t run away into the desert
but enjoy your desert adventures
Scenes on Sunday 2018
How many miles must a man travel, before he finds himself?
This year I’ve been to some interesting places, for example;
starting with California
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Oludeniz in Turkey
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Llandudno in Wales
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Crete
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York
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Albuquerque in New Mexico
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Lanzerote
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and more California
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
and was I happy with all that travelling?
you bet I was
Scenes on Sunday ~ Favourite Pictures 2018
These are among my pictures I like most of all.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
taken by the girl riding shotgun
Scenes on Sunday ~ Lanzerote
An Island in the sun takes a man away from his cares and woes.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Next time I need a cool girl to take on a long bike ride around the island.
Too Many Vacations?
Travel broadens the mind and the waistline ~ at least there were trains.
In the past year I’ve visited California, Turkey, Wales, Crete, New Mexico, back to England a few times, Lanzerote, and today I return to England for the Holiday Season. And, I’ve seen more high art than you can shake a stick at.
The weather has varied from burning hot, to freezing cold, poring rain, and driving snow.
My favourite travelling companion is The Girl Riding Shotgun, and my favourite place, Balboa Island, in Orange County CA.
I’m glad to be going home to England today.
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Jack Collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Hyatt, near Albuquerque NM
Scenes on Sunday ~ Albuquerque
Bugs Bunny should have taken a left turn in Albuquerque.
This was the Best B & B Ever
Might be the Old Town
Generic Albuquerque Store
A bar, I think
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
This has to be the coolest locomotive ever,
and it’s in Albuquerque.
Cars, and Planes, and Trains
It’s very nice to go travelling, but it’s so much nicer to travel home.
Actually no it isn’t. In comparison to warm and sunny Orange County, the North of England in late November is bleak, boring, grey, and bloody cold, even down at my favourite boat on the marina it’s miserable today. And it’s a pretty long journey to get back here from where I was staying with my friend.
- Leave my friend at 04:00 Pacific Time on Monday 19th November.
- Uber to John Wayne Airport.
- Take off from John Wayne at 07:00.
- Flight to Dallas Fort Worth   2hrs 35
- Land DFW at 11:35 Central Time (2 hours time change).
- Take off DFW at 15:15 for London Heathrow, a flight of 9hrs 00, (benefiting from a 125mph tail wind over the Atlantic).
- Land London Heathrow at 06:15 GMT on November 20th (6 hours time change).
- Â Leave LHR for Newcastle upon Tyne at 09:45 GMT, a flight of 1hrs 15
- Arrive NCL at 11:00
- Leave Newcastle Airport by Metro Subway for Newcastle Central Rail Station at 12:40 GMT
- Arrive back at the garret at 14:30 GMT on Monday 20th of November.
Total journey time of 26hrs 30min. Time in the air 12hrs 50min.
It’s about 5,500 miles from SoCal to the North of England, all in all, and from 38,000 feet you damn well know the world is round when you look out of the aircraft windows.
Some say that it’s excitement and adventure that keeps a man alive. And, that when you can’t be bothered to go travelling, you may as well just curl up and die. All I know is that I loved every damn minute of my latest trip ~ maybe the best trip ever.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
much on New Mexico is Indian land
(is one allowed to say that?)
Monochrome Monday ~ Utah Couds
Grey skies are just clouds passing overhead.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
It’s a big country
Road Trip Eclipsed
If you’re always looking back, how can you see the road in front of you.
talking
and laughing
towns passing by
sharing quiet intimacy
marvelling at the scenery
enjoying long roads’ rhythms
discovering unknown real America
driving through the country no one sees
California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming
witnessing the marvel of a dark sun at noontime
knowing those uplifting moments will be long gone
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Marmaduke really likes road trips
and so do I
Scenes on Sunday ~ Dramatic Clouds
There are no rules of architecture for a castle built in the clouds.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I heard their evils sounds
as they all tried to clip my wings
and keep my feet back on the ground
I don’t care, I’ve already burned my bridges
so don’t even look for me, I won’t ever be around
