12,000 mile trip just finished

[zanshin]

Southwest Oregon coast.

 

[zanshin]

Elk at Paradise Point State Recreation area, along the south Oregon coast.

 

[zanshin]

Cape Blanco historic lighthouse, Oregon coast. One of only a couple on the west coast you can visit and go up inside.



The tour guide wears late 19th century period-accurate uniform for a lighthouse keeper, and really gets into explaining the role of that position. Shown alongside the original huge fresnel lens it was built with (that lets the light be seen 28 miles away), only now instead of a pork lard-fueled lamp that had to be pumped every four hours, it uses a single 1,000w bulb that costs about $12.

 

[zanshin]

Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, just north of Glacier National Park in the USA.

 

[zanshin]

A stormy evening caused a great sunset near Banff township in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Rained hard at our campground, sounded like sleeping in a tin drum.

 

[zanshin]

US 12 just down from Lolo Pass, inside eastern Idaho near the Montana state line.

 

[craig333]

Great pics. You've seen gift shops that aren't tacky?

 

[zanshin]

Sure, all the National Park gift shops are pretty good. Wouldn't want to buy everything there, but they have some genuinely nice items. But the Trees of Mystery attraction (where you ride a ski tram for 7 minutes through Redwoods) has the largest and worst collection of Made in China, unrelated, and "guaranteed gonna break 30 minutes outside the gate" stuff I've ever seen.

And I've been to Branson... I know tacky.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Sure, all the National Park gift shops are pretty good. Wouldn't want to buy everything there, but they have some genuinely nice items. But the Trees of Mystery attraction (where you ride a ski tram for 7 minutes through Redwoods) has the largest and worst collection of Made in China, unrelated, and "guaranteed gonna break 30 minutes outside the gate" stuff I've ever seen.

And I've been to Branson... I know tacky.

Out here, we call that 'Stumps of Mystery'. It has meaning beyond the tourist trap...

 

[takesiteasy]

Love the Oregon coast (and the mountains too of course). Nice pics.

 

[Dughlas Stiubhart]

Thanks for learning how to post photos! And thanks for sharing. That must have been one great trip.

 

[zanshin]

Thanks for learning how to post photos! And thanks for sharing. That must have been one great trip.

Now... how do I post some of the 1TB of video?

 

[MarkBC]

Now... how do I post some of the 1TB of video?

Upload it to somewhere-on-the-web, then provide a link to it.

Or...it is possible to directly insert "live" YouTube video in a WTW post, and I think Vimeo video, so maybe you can do that with other video, too -- depending on what kind of video file it is.