Where in the world is Lizzie Morrison?

Moved Blog to Wordpress

2010-01-08T14:42:00.002-05:00

I've been getting a lot of comments and questions about why I'm not posting photography anymore and the reason is I moved the blog to Word Press about 5 months ago. Obviously you cant post a link anymore with all the spam comments you get, so just do a search for lizzie morrison wordpress and that should work

Ebay items on sale for next 5 days

2009-08-16T17:44:00.001-04:00

I've listed some photography and camera accessories on ebay so I can get rid of a lot of my stock before i move again.

The items will be up for 5 days at cheap prices/ free shipping on prints.

http://shop.ebay.com/lizziebethan

Here's a sample of what I've got up so far...

NEW BLOG!

2009-08-15T03:04:00.001-04:00

Hi all!

I just wanted to tell everyone that I moved my photo and travel blog to wordpress. I imported all the posts so they would fit together on one blog.

The link is here:

http://lizziemorrison.wordpress.com/

Leather Travel Journals

2009-06-06T18:09:00.002-04:00

This is what I want to start writing in when I'm traveling.
A Medieval Leather Travel/Photo journal $80.00

I have a new home for the time being

2009-06-06T16:23:00.002-04:00

And should be getting more travel photos of the surrounding states in the future.
Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, & Florida

holy crap I want this so much

2009-02-11T11:02:00.002-05:00

http://www.renaissance-art.com/Prod138/Product.aspx

Historic Bok Sanctuary

2009-01-22T21:06:00.004-05:00

Not my best, but they were taken with a crappy digital camera 4 years ago.

Historic Bok Sanctuary
Bok Tower Gardens
1151 Tower Boulevard
Lake Wales, FL 33853
Office: 863.676.1408
Fax: 863.676.6770
E-mail: info@boktower.org

Butterfly World - Coconut Creek Florida

2009-01-22T15:57:00.007-05:00

Located in Tradewinds Park
3600 W. Sample Road
Coconut Creek, FL 33073
954-977-4400
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
9am-5pm Monday-Saturday; 11am-5pm Sunday
Admission closes at 4pm daily
Open - Monday, January 19, 2009

GENERAL ADMISSION RATES

Adults and Seniors $24.95

Children $19.95 (ages 3-11)
2 and under are Free

05-19-2007 St. Louis to Kansas City

2009-01-03T08:24:00.004-05:00

We drove from St.Louis to Kansas City, we were there for a few minutes and Ricardo took over driving and made it to Junction City before finding a hotel for the night. So basically our first day we drove 634 miles equaling about 10 hours.

05-19-2007 St. Louis

2009-01-03T08:05:00.007-05:00

We left my parents house and arrived in St. Louis 3-4 hours later. Shown are some St.Louis photographs, for more on The Gateway Arch check out my previous post .

I've been a Cardinals fan since the great Ozzie Smith used to do back flips on the field. It was great to finally see the new Busch Stadium up close, the guard refused to let me take 15 steps and walk in it though.

05-19-07 Roadtrip Day 1 Indiana

2009-01-03T07:51:00.006-05:00

Rina and i picked up the rental vehicle, which was weird because i had asked for something else, but in the end this was a great vehicle to drive.

We left my house about 8:15a.m. and arrived an hour later at my mom and stepdads house in the country. Mom and Mike had woken up early to fix us a true country breakfast. It was a really nice send off and start to the road trip, but I seemed to be the only one who could function after eating. Rick and Rina wanted to go right to sleep when getting in the car.

Then we left and was on our way to St.Louis!

05-18-07 Roadtrip Start

2009-01-03T06:59:00.009-05:00

For some reason when I started logging my road trip experiences from 2007 I started with 05-22-07 but really the trip started 05-18-07. SO I'm going to be backtracking a lot.

So 05-18-07 I picked up Rick and Rina from the Louisville airport around 1130am and brought them back to my place so we could settle in and talk about the trip. I had made itineraries for Rina and Rick but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Rick when he got his was shocked to find that I didn't make one for myself so he copied all the pages and made one for me. So sweet of him. I remember it being really weird to see Rick with a shaved head. So weird.

Here's Rick showing off his backpack.

We headed over to Rocky's Italian Grill for some lunch.and then headed over to my salon to donate 13 inches of my hair to the hair needy. It was really long, and it was really weird to have it all just cut off so quickly.

Here's Rick doing the talk to the hand bit to Rina, and Rina putting about 5 cups of sugar in her coffee.

Anyway we went over to Slugger Museum for a tour afterward, I have a lot of Slugger pics from the trip already up on my photo blog if you want to check them out.
Louisville Slugger Museum Pictures

After we left there we went to visit my bro at the starks building so we could get a roof view of louisville. It was Ricks first time in Kentucky and Rinas second time.

The strangest sticker I've ever seen on a roof access door. :D

Rina trying to stick Rick in the garbage can outside. and looking down on 4th street live.

After this my brother kidnapped us for the rest of the evening. First he drove us to Bardstown Road to get some Starbucks, then he proceeded to drive around Cherokee Park. Then he made us walk in the woods in Cherokee Park, afterwards we went to his apartment for a beer, and then broke away to get back to my place and go over the game plan for renting the vehicle the next morning.

Rick and Rina sporting the "joke buttons" I mailed them earlier in the year.

Cherokee Park walk with my brother.

Here is Rick and Rina trying to find naked woman in apartments with their binoculars.

We were officially kidnapped by my brother from 4:15 to 7:30pm.

Roadtrip 2007 Backseat Outtake Photos

2009-01-03T06:24:00.004-05:00

Sometimes during Roadtrip of 2007 I got shoved in the backseat. Being in the backseat is like being in prison for a photographer. I did find something to do though when i was back there. I took a backseat photo. Now i have a collection of backseat photos from the trip. I didn't really think about what I was doing at the time when I got back though I realized what cool stuff I had here. For sure next time I take a road trip and get stuck in the back seat I'm definitely going to take the pictures from the same point each time and none zoomed in so they will all look more alike except for the scenery. Here's a few of my favorites.

Camcorder

2008-12-28T07:24:00.004-05:00

Ok so the last across country road trip i took.. not the one in 08 but the one in 2007., anyway Rina and Rick took 11 hours worth of tapes on Rinas camcorder. hilarious tapes. ok extremely hilarious tapes. Anyway rick sent it to me from florida so i could basically transfer all the tapes to my hard drive and make a movie with them. And not a 10 hour movie either. a regular 2-2.5 hour movie. It was going to be brilliant. It was going to be a dvd our friends and family would actually want to sit down and watch. So I started the transfers and on tape #3-Las Vegas everything went wrong. The tape got stuck, the camcorder pretended like it didnt have a tape in it, the tape wouldn't eject, the camcorder wouldn't open even though i was screaming at the top of my lungs at it and I couldn't pry it open either, the tape wouldnst play either.. or transfer. So Ricks been calling me atleast once a week for a good 5 months yelling at me to take the camcorder into BestBuy to have them fix it. Tonight I finally did that and they said they only work on items you buy from best buy and have the receipt for. blah. Well Ricardo is seriously going through withdrawals with wanting to see these tapes. Anyway wtf. i hate camcorders. especially old ones, using tapes that wont transfer.

So my question is. Does anyone make a device to stick the tapes into that will transfer directly onto the computer that i can buy so i can bypass this whole camcorder thing? I'm not positive but the tapes are named like 10 or something. Cant remember.

06-02-2007 Chicago Overcast Skies

2008-12-09T19:32:00.008-05:00

We woke up in Chicago and went to Butterfield's Pancake House before heading into the city. When arriving we parked the car underground and went for a walk. We started in Millennium Park, took a stroll over to Buckingham Fountain, and then to Sky Deck in the Sears Tower. We left at 4pm to head back to Louisville to make Rick and Rina's flight that was scheduled for 6am the next morning. With a quick trip to my sisters house to hand out some presents I sat up all night trying to burn all the pictures I had taken over the last two weeks off Ricks laptop to cds. Why I waited until the very last night to do this is beyond me.

Total Trip Mileage: 6,629 miles
Left: May 18th
Came Back: June 3rd

06-01-2007 South Dakota Storm

2008-12-09T18:09:00.010-05:00

Leaving Crazy Horse at 1:30pm our next stop would be Chicago, Illinois which was a thousand miles away and a 15 hour drive. We had meant to stop at Badlands National Park but what we really wanted to do was get ahead of the rain. The last time we had seen the sun was when we first arrived in Wyoming days ago. Rina decided to do most of the days driving after she took over from Rick driving in the morning. We hit a hell of a storm on the interstate in South Dakota. I took as many pictures as I could from inside the vehicle as Rina has this weird driving philosophy of she does not like to stop the vehicle whatsoever, or make left hand turns, which is equally as strange. When we were driving into this storm though Rina was seriously absolutely terrified. lol

Not great pictures but i really wish the side mirror had been cleaned.

When it started getting darker and darker Rina let me take over driving and Ricardo slept through the night until we reached Chicago, Rina tried to stay awake but she was passing in and out, usually waking up at gas stations. By the time I did get to the west central side of Chicago I was completely delirious. I could barely manage holding my head up, the sun had risen, it was around 7-8am and when Rick asked me a question and it took about 3 minutes for my response he took over driving. A couple more miles down the road he found a hotel and we all crashed and got to sleep about 4 hours before heading to breakfast and into downtown to see the sites.

06-01-2007 From Rushmore to Crazy Horse

2008-12-07T20:09:00.004-05:00

06-01-2007 Mount Rushmore

2008-12-07T19:19:00.010-05:00

After spending the night in Rapid City, South Dakota and drinking a little more than we probably should have we woke up to rain again. This is just not a great time to drive across the country. We headed on over to Mount Rushmore. It was a little smaller than i thought it would be but still it was pretty cool. Its a national symbol, its the principles of what our nation stands for. The museum is fantastic, all kinds of great stuff in there to see.

05-31-2007 Largest Rainbow I've ever seen

2008-12-07T18:51:00.003-05:00

"Today we saw the largest rainbow I or anyone in the vehicle had seen before and Rina refused to pull the car over. Well she did pull off the side of the interstate for 1.5 minutes but it just wasnt a great place to be and not enough time to get my tripod out. So all my pictures are shite............"

05-31-2007 Devils Tower

2008-12-05T16:34:00.008-05:00

"Rain rain, go away, please come back another day"

When we arrived at Devils Tower after 310 miles of traveling from Cody, Wyoming it was of course raining. And it continued to rain while we were there and when we left, still raining. There was no getting around it. On our way to Rapid City through the mountains we came across part of the road was falling off the mountain.. it pretty much freaked me the hell out.

05-31-2007 Waking up in Wyoming

2008-12-05T14:30:00.012-05:00

The next day Ricardo took the drivers wheel and I tried to take as many shots as possible out the window. There would be no stopping on this day apparently. This is the first time I'm looking at some of these pictures, and I really wish we would have stopped off more often, some of the landscapes looked pretty neat. It was raining though so I guess it was for the best.

We stumbled on a wonderful place called Shell Falls.

They warned us that some of the roads past the falls were being closed down due to snow, so I immediately took over driving when we got back outside. I just feel more comfortable driving in snow, I mean if you were to go on a road trip with a Puerto Rican, a Peruvian, and some chic from Indiana, who are you going to pick to drive in snow? :D The Hoosier.

Driving through the snow
by Lizziebeth79

05-30-2007 Leaving Yellowstone

2008-12-05T00:36:00.005-05:00

Yellowstone National Park

Arrival Time: 3:21pm
Departure Time: 7:50pm

It's absolutely mental thats all we were in Yellowstone for. I would really like to go back and actually spend some time there. Actually I applied for a gift shop job there this year and was turned down, so weird considering all the retail experience I have. Oh well, maybe one year. Here's some departing shots from Yellowstone.

"Leaving Yellowstone into Montana we drove through a scary storm. It was late at night, dark, and we discovered Terrifying Road #9, and got to drive on it for at least 3 hours. Finally after 165 miles we found ourselves in Cody, Wyoming staying at the cutest little off the side of the road cabins ever made. Rina got her own room, so Ricardo and I were thrilled to be snore free for the night! :D"

05-30-2007 Midway Geyser Basin

2008-12-04T23:51:00.012-05:00

Now this is more my style, I could have walked around this all day and night if I were allowed to. This has to be one of the best places in Yellowstone, it's just fantastic.

I take pictures of signs in case I need to look at them later, maps are real handy when you snap pictures of them and use them for reference later when you're lost.

5-30-2007 Waiting for Old Faithful

2008-12-04T23:14:00.005-05:00

Honestly, I think I could have seen a lot more sights in Yellowstone and a lot cooler geysers than waiting to see Old Faithful. I mean its cool that its got good timing and all, stable, but its just so touristy. I was so bored I took 43 pictures, they are all pretty much the same picture. I guess its more of a nostalgia thing. I actually love history and nostalgic things but for the time we had we didn't have much time for them.

5-30-2007 Enter West Yellowstone at 3:21pm

2008-11-26T23:15:00.008-05:00

Right after entering Yellowstone and using my nifty National Park Pass we spotted bison, what weird creatures they are. Rina and Ricardo had a real fascination for them though. I believe Rina could have videoed them for hours upon hours. (She is at one with the animals.) After spotting the Bison we had to rush to find Old Faithful, from the sounds of him you would think Ricardo had been waiting his whole life to see this geyser. We finally found it and we were about 2 minutes too late and we had to wait 90 minutes before it blew again. So we went to lunch, apparently I was still sick as I ordered chicken noodle soup and orange juice.

5-30-2007 To Yellowstone we Go..

2008-11-26T22:33:00.007-05:00

I apparently drove from Jackpot, Nevada to West Yellowstone because all my pictures are from the driver seat of the car and I do remember Rick and Rina sleeping and me trying to wake them up so they could see the scenery I was seeing. One of these days I have to sit down and edit these pictures, so they will be usable.

Cliff notes for the journal entry above:
"It must be the altitude." "It's all the pressure up here."

OK..look. I know a lot of useless information. I can't help it, I just know all kinds of shit no one in their right mind knows. I know a lot about everything actually. I don't pretend to be a know it all, but if I get asked a legitimate question, I'm going to answer it the best I know how. Ricardo and Rina ask a lot of questions, and in turn.. I answer a lot of questions. I'm sorry I just know things, and if you don't want all your questions answered than just don't ask me them damn it! When Ricardo and I lived together there were always questions, I would then answer and no one would believe me. ALWAYS, I would have to go to the computer and look up the answer to prove to everyone that I wasn't just lying, or just answering the question to answer. I was also annoyingly always right by the way. I really hate it when people (rick and rina) think I'm just bullshitting them. So this entire road trip thus far, had me answering a lot of questions. I got so tired of being called a liar by the time we reached Yellowstone I decided my only two answers were going to be "It must be the altitude." and "It's all the pressure up here." It didn't matter what the question was, those were my answers. It ended up being really funny, I guess its one of those you had to be there moments, but from then on every time I asked a question, those were the answers I received. What was also bizarre was most of the questions Rick and Rina had in Yellowstone, those answers pretty much worked every time anyway.

5-29-2007 Jackpot, Nevada

2008-11-26T21:15:00.006-05:00

Rina drove out of San Fran around 7pm eastern/4pm pacific but as soon as the sun started going down she pulled over and I took over driving.. which was like in Oakland. lol Rina really cant see when the sun starts setting at all. It's seriously scary. I love the postcard I bought from where we spent the night after leaving California. I was still sick and trying to get over it but drove from Oakland to I have no idea where. I apparently asked Rina and Ricardo if they had seen the miniature unicorn that ran across the road and they made me pull over and I slept in the back of the car til they found a hotel. I remember being woke up that they had a room, i grabbed my suitcase and barely wheeled it to the room. I'm not even sure I changed clothes before passing out in the hotel room. When I woke up I was completely cured of all sickness though and felt completely recharged.. I even bought powdered donuts and sprite for breakfast. ugh.. the thought of eating that now makes me want to hurl.

Journal Entry from above (not much happened apparently on the drive):

"After driving into the night while dodging jackrabbits and apparently seeing miniature unicorns we got to this town on the border to sleep. "

Come to think of it a lot of stuff happened on the drive and Rina had the camcorder out recording it all. Rick decided he was going to stay awake with me so i wouldn't fall asleep driving and this involved him singing ...loudly... every song on his notebook. He was seriously acting like a crackhead.

05-29-2007 A Day in San Francisco

2008-11-16T05:10:00.012-05:00

05-28-2007 San Francisco here we come

2008-11-16T04:22:00.005-05:00

05-28-07 Roadtrip - Hello Hollywood

2008-11-16T03:38:00.009-05:00

05-27-2007 Huntington Beach, California

2008-11-15T18:27:00.003-05:00

I only took 60 pictures on this day, it could have been an all time low but i was just severely ill.

05-26-07 Leaving Las Vegas

2008-11-10T19:45:00.008-05:00

And onto Huntington Beach

" I didn't take many pictures from Las Vegas to Huntington Beach. Rina drove us the whole way and Rick and I pretty much slept the whole way. Getting back to the hotel room at 4am(eastern time) and then getting up at 8am didn't really do us much justice. It was so great to pull up to my sisters house and see Sonya and Mitch again. We had a great dinner that night that involved actual real food and relaxed til 11pm or so when Ricardo made it a point that he needed to find a Dunkin' Donuts immediately. Ricardo has this thing about sweet food and candy etc. Sonya went with us as we drove all around town in the wee hours of the night with never being able to find Rick any donuts."

Pictures above of interest:

I had made Rick and Rina buttons before the road trip and mailed them with their itineraries and Louisville gifts before we left. When i picked them up from the airport, they were wearing them. Then they made me make myself one and yelled at me the entire trip every time wasn't wearing it. The buttons said "I am going on the Liz Morrison Experience Road Trip 2007". When the roadtrip started they scratched out the word going.

The other is a picture of a Porsche magazine I found in my sisters bathroom. She had taken a picture of her and Mitch and pasted them inside the porshe. I thought it was hilarious.

05-25-07 Las Vegas, Nevada 10pm-6am

2008-11-06T21:20:00.013-05:00

"Rick and I went on a nightly excursion the second night. We took a taxi down to the Luxor and walked through all the hotels on that end of the strip. On our way back we got to video a guy singing Hey Jude at an outside bar. The guy was just completely gone, it's a great bit of film. The song stuck and everyone on the street was singing it for blocks and blocks down the strip. We then walked down to the Paris hotel to get a cab. Our cab drivers name was Abby from Ethiopia. She convinced to take a really drunk Indian guy to where ever he wanted to go, he seemed like a cool guy, but i really don't think he had anywhere to go. We videoed the entire encounter, it was the best taxi ride I've ever had. I have to say this was one of the more non eventful Las Vegas visits. I just wanted to show Ricardo around cause he had never been, and i knew Rina was just going to gamble the whole time we were there. By the time we left I was feeling seriously ill."

"When we were going up the stratosphere I actually started to tearing up. I was terrified. I can't believe the rides they have at the top. It's just insane. For some reason this year I develpoed a huge fear of heights, especially on this trip."

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05-25-07 Las Vegas, Nevada 4pm-10pm

2008-11-06T13:06:00.016-05:00

Eiffel Tower Experience
"This is the second time I've been up in this tower, and this had to be the more frightful time. I got stuck in the front facing the glass doors. It freaked me out to say the least. Something else i noticed this time around is my more recent camera doesn't fit through the little camera opening boxes they have so you can get shots."

"Rina gambled both nights. I'm not really sure how much she lost, but It was not good! Never play no limit in Las Vegas! Rick and I just walked the Blvd. both days. In doing this though I developed a blister on my foot the size of Africa, I so had the wrong shoes with me for this."

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05-25-07 Las Vegas, Nevada 12pm-4pm

2008-11-06T03:25:00.023-05:00

"Ricardo and i woke up and couldn't move Rina at all, we told her we were going to go walk the strip but apparently she had come into the hotel room an hour before we woke up so their was no swaying her she was a brick. We left and went directly next door to do some souvenir shopping. After shopping we proceeded to walk into every building on the strip. Ricardo started collecting matches from each casino, for he and I. Figured i could do something with them when i got home. I was pretty sick coming into Vegas. I think I got it from Kiersten cause I had the same symptoms. I kept it under pretty good wraps though, my temperature was high but i soldiered on. Rina did meet us at Treasure Island about 4pm and we all went to Panda Express for lunch..which I didn't eat hardly any of my food."

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05-24-07 Hoover Dam and onto Las Vegas

2008-11-06T03:04:00.007-05:00

"We stopped into Hoover Dam. I guess I didn't get a postcard of Hoover Dam, but we stopped there. We visited the gift shop and I tried to get a couple night shots off. Certainly not the best pictures I've taken of Hoover Dam, but I was expecting to go back the next day for a tour."

"The first thing we did in Vegas was watch Ricardo wash the car. It was pretty funny, that's on video somewhere. The car was filthy beyond belief. We got to Las Vegas about 12:30a.m., we ate at I-HOP, and were too tired to do anything afterwards so we went back to the hotel room, we just needed a rest. I booked us a room two nights at the Stratosphere, came out to $28o I believe. Nice Hotel, enjoyed it very much. "

05-24-07 Joshua Tree Forest

2008-11-05T23:13:00.011-05:00

Grand Canyon West to Hoover Dam
"We left Grand Canyon West and took the normal way out of there this time on our way to Hoover Dam. We followed others out and it's impossible to see while you're driving. There isn't anyplace to pull over so these are the shots i got from the front seat of the car."

05-24-07 Grand Canyon West

2008-11-05T21:21:00.015-05:00

Now owned by the Hualapai Tribe. Here's the thing. After not dying on Buck and Doe Road we were really surprised we just couldn't park and walk up to see the Grand Canyon. And of course since we were on Indian land my National Park Passport I bought for $80 and had already used in like 5 different parks thus far was non existent. Instead we had to wait in a line for 45 minutes to buy tickets for $49.95 each. That's $150 for us to see the Grand Canyon. I would like to point out we would be $150 richer if Ricardo and Rina hadn't passed up the real Grand Canyon (where we could have used my National Park Pass). They do have this great thing now called The Skywalk Glass Bridge, but you have to add $29.95 to your $49.95. And they have a rather big chain fence around it so there's no sneaking in. From recently looking at their website it looks like they have lowered the price for the tour from $50 to $30. What you do is park your vechicle, buy a ticket, wait to get on a bus, and they drop you off at several locations on the Grand Canyon West route, and there's a lunch at one of the last stops, so you can eat at the Grand Canyon as well.

If you look closely on your ticket that you've just purchased(which has been glued into my travel journal) it states:

You will not use any photographs (including film, still, video, or otherwise) of the Tribe's land and the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, and Skywalk), directly or indirectly, for profit (including any advertisement, news release or publication), without first obtaining the necessary written approvals and permits. management reserves all rights.

So while I was there if I had taken a really good picture i can't sell it all? What the hell? I can understand if it's a picture of the Skywalk. But holding the rights to the Grand Canyon itself and the Colorado River? Good thing i didn't take any good pictures while there! As a photographer this just really sucks. Anyway i think that's pretty ridiculous what they are asking for. I'm even part Cherokee Indian and i believe its unbelievable. Also on the ticket it releases them from any accident you get into while you're on their land, which would be completely fine if their bus drivers didn't drive like maniacs. Every time i got on a bus I prayed for my life, and that is no joke. Overall I think if your coming from Las Vegas its the easiest option to see the Grand Canyon. They offer white water rafting, the Skywalk which really looks like a unique experience, helicopter rides, and different bus stops along the rim. But if you're students or photographers and you're driving across country i think the Grand Canyon park north and south rim are the options to take.

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05-24-07 Buck and Doe Road & Route 66

2008-11-05T19:14:00.016-05:00

Journal Entry: "We left Kingman, AZ and traveled on Route 66 all the way to Peach Springs (aka Radiator Springs). There was another way to get to Grand Canyon West but I wanted to travel on Route 66 for awhile. I had figured we would leave Grand Canyon South Rim and jump on 66 in Seligman and take it back down to I-40 then we could head to Las Vegas. Since the new events of the morning of actually being in Kingman already, we would have to do some backtracking. 50 miles of backtracking actually. " We arrived in Peach Springs and couldn't figure out how to get to Grand Canyon West, so Rick decided to stop at a free health clinic and go in and ask for directions. He came back out and said he knew the way. The Navajo Indian woman inside told him to turn around, go back a mile or two and turn onto Buck and Doe Road. This would take us all the way to the Grand Canyon. She said it was gravel but it wasn't bad, that our car would most definitely make it. A good 5 miles into the route Rick tells us that before he asked for directions that he accidentally stepped on her toes. She was wearing sandals and she looked quite annoyed at him, so he asked her the directions. At this Rina and i thought What? Do you think we should really follow her directions then?!?! To this Ricardo just soldiered on. And so begins the journey of Buck and Doe Road."

"Possibly the Longest, Scariest Road in Arizona. We didn't think we would ever make it anywhere there weren't any signs to be seen either, the entire time we were praying we wouldn't run out of gas. There was however a truck missing a tire broken down with no humans around. Indeed our minds made up stories that could make it in horror classics. It was indeed 49 miles of pure hell if you're afraid of heights and don't like rocky roads, and wish you had gotten the car insurance when you rented the vehicle. It was Craziness!! Everyone at Grand Canyon West said that only locals take Buck and Doe road. That they grew up on it and travel it at 50mph. What the hell Ricardo drove between 5-15mph the entire way. It took us like 4-5 hours to reach the Grand Canyon West. Hill after hill I kept thinking...ok it'll be over the next one, and with each rise you could see the next 3 miles of wandering in and out of more hills. "

Never Again.

For the record: I begged Ricardo to let me drive but he thought I would drive too fast and kill us. Believe me a girl from the country can drive on gravel better than a Floridian from NYC. That is just a common fact. But then again.. I'm still alive.
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05-23-07 Roadtrip - Arizona

2008-11-05T18:41:00.014-05:00

"From Hwy 89 you take 64 to get to the Grand Canyon. There are signs everywhere, BIG. GREEN. Grand Canyon Signs. At some point when I was sleeping Ricardo and Rina made it to Flagstaff and jumped onto I-40 west. They were so excited to wake me up in Kingman, Arizona to say they had found a hotel and we were just stopping off for gasoline and to get food/drinks/etc. After all they had been driving almost 4 hours and were so excited at the progress they had made. I immediately said Kingman? Kingman? Where the fuck is Kingman?..Give me the map. Rina handed over the map and I studied it to see what was happening when i was asleep. I waited until Rick got back in the car and said "Why did you pass up the Grand Canyon?" and they both had no idea what i was talking about. "The Grand Canyon, why did you pass it up?" Both individuals argued and argued their point of they hadn't passed it up. we still hadn't reached it yet. Just look at the map Liz this is the south rim, this is the north, it got too dark to make it to the north rim remember, so were going to the south rim. What? I said. Did you check the itinerary? Did you look at the map? Do you remember me giving you directions before i went to sleep?!!?! Whatever I said that night i was absolutely wrong. They were right, I was wrong. And this was coming from two floridians, one thing you realize if you ever move to Florida, none of the people there use the four cardinal points. Which are east, west, north, and south. Everywhere else I've lived people know how to tell directions, just not Floridians. I have no idea why."

I had just single handedly planned this trip for 6 months and pretty much knew everything about it. God forbid I fall asleep during it. Still to this day i can't figure out why they didn't get my point that night that in fact they had passed the Grand Canyon. Here's a map to give you a visual of what i was dealing with .The fact still remains they passed up the Grand Canyon by194 miles.

05-23-07 Navajo Bridge - Arizona

2008-11-05T17:31:00.009-05:00

"We got to the Navajo Bridge to walk across it, right when I was taking my first picture my camera battery died. AHHHH. That reminds me I need to get a backup battery. I persuaded Rick, well i begged Rick to give me his camera after he was finished taking the pictures he wanted to take. I fired off a few shots and we chilled on the bridge for a few minutes. Oddly enough I haven't got any pictures of the bridge we stood on (the old Navajo Bridge) I just have pictures of the new one while standing on the old."

"When I was driving through Marble Canyon I saw the most beautiful sunset I had ever seen in my life and I had no camera. This always seems to happen right? I reached in the backseat and basically took Ricks camera out of his hands. It's good to have such patient friends close to you sometimes, I do this with my family as well. I wasn't going to be able to set Ricks camera up with my tripod so i decided to use the hood of the car and act like it was a body of water and use the reflection on top to my advantage. Ricardo thought this was pure genius and has been completely in awe of this since it happened. At this point I had been driving between 4.5 and 5 hours so I handed over the wheel to Rick and the map to Rina. I took my place in the backseat lying down to sleep. Our next stop was to be The Grand Canyon!"

05-23-07 Roadtrip - Arizona

2008-11-05T15:34:00.012-05:00

"We left Bryce Canyon in hopes to see Grand Canyon North Rim. We took Alt 89 to Jacob Lake but I kept on hearing in my right ear that it was going to get dark before we got down there and then we wouldn't be able to find a place to sleep, sleeping in the car was not going to happen and we would be murdered on a back road---> according to Ricardo. I went ahead and took his advice, he's just scared, so is Rina. I to this day haven't been able to break that about them. I have a lot more faith in this country not to be murdered every time I go off a main highway or try and have lunch someplace other than BurgerKing, McDonalds, or TacoBell (Ricardo if you read this, you've really got to stop this habit) I stayed on the road through Kaibab National Forest. We wondered upon a place called House Rock in the Marble Canyon area. Seriously A Land Before Time type of scene going on there. We stopped to take a couple pictures at the overlook and i happily drove to the bottom of the canyon. It was a fantastic stretch of road. "

05-23-07 Roadtrip - Bryce Canyon

2008-11-05T03:12:00.018-05:00

3:16 p.m. Our arrival time into Bryce Canyon. I originally had plans for us to spend the night there, but Rina and Ricardo decided $100 was over our budget for a hotel room for one night. I immediately had to find a gift shop and buy a hooded sweatshirt, it was FREEEZINNNG. Of course my debit/credit card decided not to work so Rina loaned me the cash for the $21.40 souvenir. We ended up hanging out in the canyon til 5:30pm and went out to the main gate area to check out those gift shops and fill up $44 in gas at 2,223 miles into our journey. My card decided to start working again closer to civilization so i seriously had a Bryce Canyon spending spree for souvenirs. Oddly enough it was a good thing i got the hoodie as it started snowing while we were there.

The only Travel Journal Entry for Bryce Canyon:
"One of the most beautiful places on Earth."

05-23-07 Roadtrip - Utah

2008-11-05T02:22:00.015-05:00

After leaving Glen Canyon Dam we headed up Us-89 towards Bryce Canyon.... 153 mile trip lasting around 3 hours. The drive was exceptional. Entering Utah it decided to stop raining and we all saw terrain we were not used to and had never seen before. Ricardo was driving and pretty much refused to stop every 5 minutes like i wanted for me to get shots so all my pictures were taken from the passenger seat of the vehicle. Southern Utah completely and utterly reminded me of Flintstones Bed Rock. On the way actually we came across a Bed Rock ice cream place. We didn't stop but looked adorable.

At 1:30 p.m. we rolled into a town called Kanab, Utah. Fantastic town we only stopped in for gasoline but i found a wealth of information about it after leaving. We did get historical information though from this little gallery we popped into while we were there. Good Stuff. Apparently Kanab is considered to be Little Hollywood of the west.

"Movie making was a large part of this area's history from the 1930's-1990's, when 300 movies and TV shows were filmed here. To sate visiting movie buffs, you might consider a tour of the old movie sets dotting the area. While some are in disrepair, others have been rebuilt and are well-maintained."

So basically most of the westerns you saw were shot in the Kanab area.

05-23-07 Roadtrip - Page, Arizona

2008-11-05T00:48:00.016-05:00

A page from my travel journal:"We rolled into Page, Arizona and checked out a few hotels til we settled in a motel called Pageboy Motel. It was the cutest little place with friendly people and great landscaping. The town closes down at like 8pm though, Including the Walmart. I'm pretty sure it was my turn to sleep on the floor but I somehow convinced Ricardo to share half of his bed. Muhahahaha. The room was only $50.00"
"We woke up early to rain, surprise! We decided this would be a good time to visit a laundry mat. We put our clothes to wash and headed off for breakfast. We ordered the best breakfast sandwiches I've had in all my life. Seriously." (Could have been called Bean's Gourmet Coffee House)

After we finished our weeks worth of laundry we headed down Scenic View Drive to see parts of Lake Powell. It was pissing down rain and we saw absolutely nothing. I got one good shot off before I realized my camera was getting increasingly wet, and water drops kept showing up on my lens in the shots I finally gave up and Ricardo and i ran back to the car. We headed over Glen Canyon Bridge to the Carl Hayden Visitor Center to check out the dam from inside without being pelted with rain.Due to the rain in the area we missed Antelope Canyon, Lake Powell, and Horseshoe Bend. I really must go back to Page, Arizona and spend a month. There is so much to do there!

05-22-07 Roadtrip - Colorado/Arizona

2008-11-04T16:29:00.039-05:00

After packing up and leaving Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado we pulled over and saw this great scene. Right after this I made Rina pull the car over so I could drive. I absolutely do not trust Floridians driving in the snow, especially if they've never seen snow before. Rina was so thrilled to see snow she jumped out of the car and started throwing her first snow balls at Ricardo and I. Well we waited in the car because we've seen snow and it was cold but it was fun to watch Rina go out it and she wiped out as well and sprained her ankle a bit. She wasn't too thrilled about that. After that at least she stopped the silent treatment we were getting from her the last 300 to 400 miles.

+37° 28' 58.77", -106° 48' 8.59"
The Great Continental Divide

We filled up the gas tank at 1,650 miles into the trip for $44.00 while stopping off in a town called Pagosa Springs for beverages etc. It reminded me a little bit of Gatlinburg in Tennessee. We went inside a place called Rainbow Gift Shop so i could purchase my usual souvenirs, this time though I bought a hot pink piece of rock and some pins for my collectible pin framed thing. The rock sits on my dresser at home now with jewelry chilling on it. They had a statue of two wolves that reminded me of my parents Malamutes, I wanted to get it but talked myself out of it. Later we realized that in the center of town is a hot spring that we completely missed. Disappointing as the pictures online of it look really cool we just missed it as we never got off San Juan Street/Hwy160.After the stop in Pagosa Springs, Ricardo took the wheel and decided to drive right on past Mesa Verde. He said we needed to get to Monument Valley before sunset if I wanted to see it. Really i think he had no interest in seeing Mesa Verde as he wasn't sure what it was and he was really excited about seeing the 4 corners. There's nothing i could do I wasn't driving.

A page from my travel journal:
"We passed up Mesa Verde as it was getting late and headed for the four corners. Well it was raining so that place wasn't exciting. Rina had to use a porta-potty which was hilarious! Ricardo backed the car up to her door so she couldn't get out. It was the worse smell ever and when he finally moved the car and she jumped in we witnessed the nauseating smell. It was awful. The only thing we got out of the experience was we were in New Mexico for about 3 minutes! We took 160 to Page, AZ. We thought we were driving to Monument Valley but we only saw a small portion of it. I think 163 is the highway you need to take to see it. The rain let up just enough to let me get a good sunset picture before night fall. "

05-22-07 Roadtrip - Colorado

2008-11-04T01:26:00.026-05:00

May 22nd 2007 started off with waking up in a hotel in Alamosa, Colorado. We had rode into town late the night before after visiting Red Rock Amphitheater and Royal Gorge Bridge coming from staying the night in Denver, Colorado. The night before we rolled into Great Sand Dunes National Park at 9pm and there was still light out so we thought we could make it.Little did we realize from Hwy17 we still had 25 miles until we hit the dunes. We drove about 21 miles and it was absolute pitch darkness. This would have been a perfect time to take some night pictures but at the time I still hadn't mastered the whole star trail thing or even night landscapes, which now i know how to do unfortunately (should have read up on the subject before leaving). It was so dark we couldn't figure out where the dunes were located at all...i mean pitch darkness. As the sun set all we could see was a roll of lights coming from Hwy 17 in a line all the way to Alamosa. Rick was FREAKING out, and I will repeat FREAKING OUT about the darkness. It was nice out when I was trying to get a few pictures at night but he swore we were going to be eaten my panthers and we needed to get in the vehicle immediately. It was pretty funny, I think Rina filmed him on tape having his "episode".

We turned around and took Co-150 to Hwy160 and followed the lights to town. This of course added 35 miles on top of the 21 we took to the national park so we arrived there pretty late. Ricardo was dead set on visiting every single hotel and asking the prices before deciding on which to settle down in. We ended up staying at the first hotel we visited as always. Ricardo had asked the price first but then an hour later made me go ask and try and get a discount. I came out excited after agreeing on a price $10 less with a non-existent Triple A card. ;) I told Ricardo the price and was gleaming with how well I did and he said that was more expensive than the original price they quoted him. APPARENTLY, if you have darker skin and your Puerto Rican you get a better price in Alamosa, Colorado than the "rich white girl" ---> I am far from rich by the way. I was pretty annoyed at this fact but I had already paid for the room so I buried my head and unloaded the car. It's funny I grabbed my travel journal out to recall the price of the hotel room and this is what I wrote:

"Super 8 Motel in Alamosa is apparently against the white people. Ricardo went in and got a quote, later I went in and he gave me a higher quote and acted like he was giving me a discount. What an asshole."

The next morning we left to head back to the Sand Dunes after a small fast complimentary breakfast. Rina's turn to buy gas and she filled up the tank for $43.00 and we were at 1,293 miles of our journey. I apparently bought a lotto ticket at Safeway and won $3.00 but the ticket cost $3.00 so I traded it in for a Starbucks Frappachino, Bottle of water, and a 3 Musketeer. I apparently had no regards to health in 2007. By the way, the hotel for the night was $82.21

We arrived at the park at 10:26a.m. and immediately saw a deer cross the road in front of us.
When we did see the dunes we were all in complete shock. How we missed these the night before really was beyond us. Seriously.. they are freaking huge.

The first thing we did after parking was stand at the foot of the sand dunes testing the temperature of the water. News to us, the last thing we thought we would see was a stream of water heading down from the mountains across the path blocking our lovely sand dune climb. Let me just state the water was freezing. Really really really freezing. I thought ok..oh well and proceeded to take off my shoes and socks. Rina decided to set this one out, apparently she hates sand with a passion, we never knew. I started skipping/running/jumping across the water and at first Ricardo thought I was insane or something and then when i looked back after I had made it across I saw him taking off his shoes and socks as well. While he proceeded to follow I took a few shots while I waited for him to cross. After you cross that freezing water you literally have to bury your feet in the hot sand for them to get feeling back.

Ricardo wanted me to hang back so i could take a picture of him on top of one of the dunes with his arms raised in the air so i did that and got this funny shot of Rick running toward the dunes, but it looked like he was running toward this group of girls in bikinis. Let me tell you I have no idea what these girls were thinking because it was not hot out, and the wind was fierce. I had a hoodie on & was just getting completely pelted with sand up to my forehead, it hurt - for real. I tried to get as many interesting shots as I could while I waited for him to get to the top of the Sand Dunes. We found out later the dunes reach 750feet, not exactly easy fast climbing with no water or anything. Next time I go there I'm definitely bringing a backpack, a hiking stick, and bottles of water. He made it about 400 feet before turning around to stick his hands up in the air. The further away you walked away from the creek the smaller people looked back toward the parking lot. They just became tiny little dots in the sand. Oddly enough when Rick made it back down to where i was standing his mobile said SOS & that was it, we decided it was time to leave.

While Ricardo and i were wondering through the sand dunes, Rina was apparently wondering through the grasses at the foot of the dunes. Being the nature lover that she is, she had found a really cool tree i just had to photograph. Not enjoying the walk through the red ant fields I thought she was crazy, but it turns out she was right. The tree had recently been struck by lightning and had burned to the ground somewhat.. what was left was really cool to photograph.

After a quick stop in the gift shop to get the usual (stickers, post cards, pins, and patches) we left the park at 12:30 heading for Mesa Verde and Monument Valley. Little did we know in less than an hour we would be driving through a winter snowstorm in the mountains and Rina would be seeing her first snowfall of her life.

Here's a Google map image of some of the driving we did in the snowstorm. None of us had any idea it snowed at the end of May in Colorado. Later on though looking at the elevations we realized of course it snows in May in Colorado. Apparently it also snows in Utah, Wyoming, and Montana as well.

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Jefferson National Expansion Memorial - May 2007

2008-10-20T07:14:00.007-04:00

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Website

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Niagara Falls New York and Canada - August 2006

2008-10-20T06:08:00.013-04:00

Now that i actually know how to use my camera and have a tripod i must go back to Niagara Falls.

Niagara Falls Website
Niagara Falls Tourism Website

Mackinac Bridge - August 2006

2008-10-20T05:19:00.011-04:00

Mackinac Bridge Website

From Bridge View Park

Mackinac Bridge, Lighthouse, and town views

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore - August 2006

2008-10-20T03:18:00.013-04:00

Click on map for actual Interactive NPS Map of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Unfortunately when I drove up north to visit Pictured Rocks Lakeshore something odd happened. It was the middle of August and at its highest 106 degrees while i was visiting. Everywhere i went people with UP accents were talkin' to me aboot this crazy weather they were experiencing. So of course when I woke up the next morning from spending the night in Munising, it started to rain. There was no waiting it out, I had a schedule to make it through Canada and come back down to Louisville before I had to be back at work. So I paid my $35 or whatever the boat ride cost and jumped on the back so I could try and get as many pictures as possible. If you are wondering the final count was 528. Yes I know, how ridiculous, from 9:57 a.m. to 12:01 p.m. I took 528 photographs in the rain of wet rocks. What I'm doing here is warning you, warning that these will not be the best pictures I've ever taken, you could even argue they are my worst. But the fact still remains that I took 528 pictures while standing in the rain on the back of a boat of wet rocks. The lesson i learned is the next time I decide to venture up to the UP on a trip, I will be staying the week in Munising, not a day...and i will be renting a boat, and maybe even a cabin. I will not be posting a lot of pictures of the rocks, as they are just not good pictures at all, but hopefully this will prevent anyone by going during a rainstorm so it doesn't ruin your trip. The fact is that the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a fantastic place everyone should visit. And make sure to eat some pasties while you're up there.

The Forecast

Munising Falls

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore NPS Website

Bush to open national parks to mountain bikes

2008-10-20T02:41:00.003-04:00

Bush to open national parks to mountain bikes

By DINA CAPPIELLO – 5 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is taking steps to make it easier for mountain bikers to gain access to national parks and other public lands before the president — an avid cyclist himself — leaves office.

The National Park Service confirmed Tuesday that it is preparing a rule to allow park managers in some cases to decide which trails to open to mountain bikers.

Once it's finalized, the rule would take this authority away from federal regulators in Washington, who sometimes take years to decide whether to allow bicycles on individual trails.

A park service spokesman said the rule would be proposed no later than Nov. 15 in order for it to be finalized before Bush leaves office.

This is wonderful.

ok

2008-08-09T02:36:00.000-04:00

I have seriously got to go travel somewhere.

Next Adventure.

2008-06-12T15:59:00.000-04:00

West Rail Pass- $359.00 Off-Peak 30-Day Pass

East Rail Pass- $359.00 Off-Peak 30- Day Pass

National Rail Pass- $469.00 Off-Peak 30-Day Pass

Who knows where I'll end up. Should be an adventure.

10 years later

2008-05-10T04:20:00.000-04:00

The first picture was taken 10 years ago, This second picture looks like I had a more powerful zoom lens.

Hi

2008-05-09T01:53:00.001-04:00

I am currently scanning negatives. It's going to be a scary process, but it has to be done.

I was right.
The finished scans are pretty scary.
In fact they look seriously ancient.
They were pictures I took when I was like.. 19-20 yrs old. So like 9-10 years ago. Jesus
where is the time going.

AAAhhh i get it.. I was scanning in the negatives at 200 resolution..
well its starting to get better, but barely..
I'm new to this scanning negatives thing.
I think i might need a new scanner.

this is all from the same roll of film. So much fun, I never printed any of these out. Even though there crappy scans I'm getting happier with each picture. I really think they're swell. It's fun to see past travels through 19 year old me. This must have been my first trip to California and my second to Las Vegas/Hoover Dam.

well.. I'm 6 rolls done... and like 700 to go. Theres got to be a faster way.
HPscanjet5370c i wish you would be faster.

awww I forgot about this little boy.

I was at Hoover Dam going on my first helicopter ride and with me was a woman and her child. It was his first time as well in a helicopter so I took a few pictures of him to remind me of the feelings I felt, because the same feelings shown on his face.

Eddie Izzard Live..

2008-04-17T22:34:00.002-04:00

moved to http://mysporadicthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/10/eddie-izzard-live.html