Picking up from my last/main post (August 8-16, 2008 (On the Road)), I had entered Texas right around when the photos below occur.
For the next set of photos below, I should be clear that I guess I might have been trespassing again. I didn’t have any malicious intentions, I just wanted to climb up on top of that grain silo. I failed to see the ladder that was RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME and is included in several of these photos. Probably for the best, if I got up there I might have been escorted back down in handcuffs. It sure looked like it would be an incredible view, though. I decided it was best to leave before anyone showed up to ask me why I was wandering around taking pictures.
At this point we have entered Oklahoma. The next photo or two is my first realization that tinted windows and polarizing filters have some strange interactions to ignore the psychedelic colors unless you like them. I took an accidental exit into Elk City because I was following a semi and just followed him right off the highway. Oops. But Elk City seemed nice, I liked it a good deal better than the town I actually ended up staying in (which I want to say was Checotah, OK?), which had no real amenities available by the time I rolled in late at night. I’m not sure Elk City would have had any more amenities than did the place I stayed, but I got to see it in daylight and that might have made all the difference. I got no photos of Checotah until the next morning, but my lenses were fogged over from having been left in front of the hotel AC unit, so I didn’t get much.
I think this is around where we (who’s “we”?) entered Tennessee. From this point until Georgia I got fewer and fewer photos largely on account of the sides of the highways are often so lush and surrounded by trees that you can’t really get pictures of much from the highway while driving. There was also a period where I got slightly lost in Birmingham, Alabama, and since it was getting dark by then I couldn’t really document it, I was a little more preoccupied with getting my bearings. The drive on my final day from Alabama into Georgia had lots of bad weather, which inhibited my ability to get many photos, so this last leg of the trip, sadly, is pretty sparse in photos, though I got plenty of my time with friends in Savannah. I expect that will be split into this post and the next.
The clouds above were in Alabama. I believe the next photos start out in Georgia as I had gotten pretty near to it when I stopped in Alabama. I got lost in Birmingham around 6PM if I recall correctly, and continued East for another several hours afterward. I recall the hotel I stayed at being much nicer than the one in Arkansas, though I was also tired enough not to care much either way.
I arrived and met my friend at her workplace, followed her from there to a parking lot I could leave my car overnight, and then from there back to the home of my host, where my friend decided to see if it was possible to braid another friend’s hair. We had some drinks together and stayed up late smoking, drinking, and hanging out.
Uh oh. I had written text here and it got deleted, so just pretend there’s an explanation here that covers how we got from the last photos to these ones.
After spending the first day checking out Savannah, the next day we got lunch at a pizza place, then went to a movie (say Pineapple Express), and went out to Tybee Island. That night we lit off some fireworks on the back and we say some phosphorescent algae in the water so it lit up whenever we swam in it. It was pretty incredible.
That’s all for this post.
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