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Thank you Jon! When I went to California for the airshow in Sacramento 2 years ago, I planned some time to photograph the coastal are north of S.F. , it was breathtaking scenery!
Thank you Joe and Jeff! One more week until the MCAS Cherry Point show. That's 700 miles of driving in one day! The Naval Academy campus in Annapolis will be closed to the general public during the Blue Angels show for security reason few weeks from now. I may still go to watch off campus since it's only 45 minutes drive from me. As a matter of fact, one of my all time favorite BA pictures I have taken was taken off the academy campus during COVID. I have never been able to see the BA stacked in this angle again. Luck may strike twice!
Thank you Ray! I went to the same spot a few times in the subsequent years but never got them in this angle again. I assume the flightpath varies year to year.
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Danpbphoto wrote:
Just wonderful Douglas!
Should have " met up with" Bill Gass!
He is to the South of Eugene..Crater Lake!
Excellent compositions!
Dan
Thank you Dan! I did communicated with Bill. Our schedule was pretty tight and we were nowhere near where he lives. Sorry we missed him this time.
I was shocked to learn again, how many sections of the famous Highway 101 in Oregon has no cell signals, same thing when I drove on 101 north of S.F. two years ago. Once we reached a destination, when I tried to go to the next destination, nothing showed on the phone, so I drove aimlessly until we got to somewhere that had signal, then we pulled over and entered the next destination. I forgot I should have downloaded the offline map before the trip! Wonder how we traveled before the GPS thingy...
Garmin watch with Satellite connectivity is your friend…… about $2000. Or a mobile Starlink device (cost?). I remember back in my motorcycle riding days, I’d pull over to side of road and pull out a map - Rand McNally, IIRC.
Starlink Roam, Small Antennae and some wires, $199.00, then $50.00 a month.
You can use Google Maps, Google Earth, You'll have Wi-Fi which should boost your cell signal a little and you can email as well.
"I forgot I should have downloaded the offline map before the trip! Wonder how we traveled before the GPS thingy..."
I remember, We decided to drive a 100 mile road trip. The first 200 miles begins with excitement turning to frustration as the wife continually asks for me to pull over to ask for directions. The wife has the 4 foot square road map spread out in front of her telling me to "turn here!". Hogwash! I don't need directions I know where I am going. The next 100 miles are totally unbearable with the hateful attacks of "you are lost". Finally, filling up an empty, once full tank, the wife asked the attendant servicing our tires, wiping our windshield and filling the tank where "so n so" is. He tells her we missed it 50 miles back down the main highway...so the story goes. We have been married over 50 years.
Ray Swindle wrote: I forgot I should have downloaded the offline map before the trip! Wonder how we traveled before the GPS thingy...{b}
I remember, We decided to drive a 100 mile road trip. The first 200 miles begins with excitement turning to frustration as the wife continually asks for me to pull over to ask for directions. The wife has the 4 foot square road map spread out in front of her telling me to "turn here!". Hogwash! I don't need directions I know where I am going. The next 100 miles are totally unbearable with the hateful attacks of "you are lost". Finally, filling up an empty, once full tank, the wife asked the attendant servicing our tires, wiping our windshield and filling the tank where "so n so" is. He tells her we missed it 50 miles back down the main highway...so the story goes. We have been married over 50 years....Show more →
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I had several of those Road Atlas books for many states, they were pretty neat to look at tho.
Now all that is in the palm of our hand or on our dash.
anthonysemone wrote:
Garmin watch with Satellite connectivity is your friend…… about $2000. Or a mobile Starlink device (cost?). I remember back in my motorcycle riding days, I’d pull over to side of road and pull out a map - Rand McNally, IIRC.
As always, Douglas, beautiful. Tony
Heh my brother!
Speaking of motorcycles, I was living in Grants Pass, inland Oregon, and rode my Harley Sportster over the fire trails to Gold Beach, Oregon.....wasn't paying attention and hit a cement culvert..did a 360degree flip, knocked myself out, and shredded the top layer of skin right off my arms and shoulder. Luckily I was wearing a helmet or my brains would be part of the forest.
Bill Gass wrote:
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I had several of those Road Atlas books for many states, they were pretty neat to look at tho.
Now all that is in the palm of our hand or on our dash.
Still have them brother!!!!! I DO NOT own a smartphone! My "compass" is my smartphone!
Dan
anthonysemone wrote:
Garmin watch with Satellite connectivity is your friend…… about $2000. Or a mobile Starlink device (cost?). I remember back in my motorcycle riding days, I’d pull over to side of road and pull out a map - Rand McNally, IIRC.
I do have several portable Garmin GPS devices, one of which is only several years old. They would work where there is no cell signal. I should have brought one of them with me. We travelled quite a bit with maps before GPS became available to civilians.
We would get maps from AAA, studied the maps, wrote down every turn on a piece of paper. We managed to get around. But one time we arrived in San Francisco at night, missed a turn, it took a while to get back on the right course.
It still puzzles me, for a famous road like the Pacific Coast Highway 101, how could there be no cell phone signal? I travel internationally quite a bit, most of the remotes parts in those less developed countries have very good cell phone coverage. I drove around West Virginia in fall for leaf peeping, many areas have no or very weak cell signal. I must say our infrastructure here in the US is not where it should be.
BTW, I just ordered a National Geographic Road Atlas 2027 from Amazon. The one I have is probably more than 10 years old
Bill Gass wrote:
Cell and Internet, US has been way behind for decades.
Starlink et al is the future......The last few years I was employed, when abroad, I had a "sat" phone. There is a lot "up there". We just don't know it........or don't know "about" it...yet
Dan
Bill Gass wrote:
Cell and Internet, US has been way behind for decades.
When I was driving up and down Highway 101 between San Francisco and the Oregon border 2 years ago, many parts along the highway had no cell signal. I was thinking to myself, here I am, not far from the world's high-tech hub, the Silicon Valley, yet just an hour drive away from it, it had no cell signal, how ironic. When I drove around in sparsely populated Iceland two years ago, I could drive for 30 minutes without seeing another car yet I never had cell signal problem.
Douglas L wrote:
When I was driving up and down Highway 101 between San Francisco and the Oregon border 2 years ago, many parts along the highway had no cell signal. I was thinking to myself, here I am, not far from the world's high-tech hub, the Silicon Valley, yet just an hour drive away from it, it had no cell signal, how ironic. When I drove around in sparsely populated Iceland two years ago, I could drive for 30 minutes without seeing another car yet I never had cell signal problem.
Cause we got all these mountains on the West Coast...Iceland is a very neat place tho, I remember your waterfall pix from behind it I believe. 2m or 10m Radio works pretty well. Just pretend it's the old days, no phone, no internet, no seat belts, everyone smoked...I guess just enjoy the ride and look forward to what's around the next corner. Highway 101 is beautiful.
Douglas L wrote:
When I was driving up and down Highway 101 between San Francisco and the Oregon border 2 years ago, many parts along the highway had no cell signal. I was thinking to myself, here I am, not far from the world's high-tech hub, the Silicon Valley, yet just an hour drive away from it, it had no cell signal, how ironic. When I drove around in sparsely populated Iceland two years ago, I could drive for 30 minutes without seeing another car yet I never had cell signal problem.
The technology is THERE! Has been since the satellite phone? Yes "pay to play" was ezy, and EXPENSIVE, when you had a monopoly on the market. Starlink,et al, is changing that.
Why the hold up? Thee technology has been there for years. Just ask "The Bell System- Ma Bell"!
?). I remember back in my motorcycle riding days, I’d pull over to side of road and pull out a map - Rand McNally, IIRC.
Just pretend it's the old days, no phone, no internet, no seat belts, everyone smoked...I guess just enjoy the ride and look forward to what's around the next corner. Highway 101 is beautiful.