other dog

thank you.

Thanks Ken, I think overall it's pretty good, I still take some bad pictures though. What I was looking for was a true "point and shoot" because I want to be able to grab it quickly and take decent "drive-by" pictures without having time to adjust any settings on the camera, and so far I think it's doing a pretty good job with that. And that 14X zoom is just like icing on the cake, when i'm stopped that is. Doesn't work too good when i'm running 95-100 mph.

I took a nap for about 4 hrs. at Flatwoods, took this night shot when I got up. Found the camera has a "night landscape" setting. I never did actually read the instructions, maybe I should do that sometime. I'm pretty well pleased with it so far though.

I'll have to check that out, never stopped there. I usually stop at the store on top of the mountain at the corner of rt. 42 and 93 where you turn to go to the power plant, where everything is outrageously over priced.

At least he did the right thing when he realized he was between a rock and a hard place, some drivers probably would have kept going until the trailer was over the edge. http://cdllife.com/2013/top-trucking-news/stuck-driver-says-gps-led-him-up-steep-road/

There used to be a little motel right across the road from the go mart,by a little restaurant, across the parking lot from that gas station/convenience store. don't know if it's still open or not.

I saw some wildlife in the parking lot in Flatwoods too.

More Earl Paddock grizzly pictures, from the interweb.

thanks Vinny!

arrrrright then, part two- I picked this load up at B & W Thursday...or maybe it's BWX Technologies, or something like that now. Anyway, they're the nuclear people. Very high security place, they have armed guards all over, machine gun towers, razor wire, the whole deal. They search the truck inside and out before you go in, no cameras, cell phones, cb mike, tv, tobacco products, drugs, alcohol, or weapons are allowed, so I put all that stuff in a sack and left it outside before I went in the facility. I asked them about the old steak knife I put in the truck to slice some tomatoes I brought from home to put on sammiches. They said "oh, that's fine, you can keep that." I put it in the bag anyway, but I still don't understand why it's ok to have a steak knife, but no cd's or dvd's are allowed in. Maybe they thought I was a ninja, and a cd would be deadly in my hands. This is what I picked up. Went to a scrapyard in McKeesport, Pa. I thought it was stainless steel, which it is really, but it's something called "Inconel alloy 690". ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel) The guy that loaded it said what I had on was worth about a quarter of a million dollars. I asked about it at McKeesport and they said it had a very high nickel content. The steak knife... Saw some big Mack trucks... this one ain't looking so good... Cabover KW wrecker in Blue Ridge, Va. I was sitting in Flatwoods, W.V. and saw this load of wood going to the particle board place. And this red Mack truck. Picked up 5 coils in Pittsburgh, going back to Lynchburg. A hayes grizzly on a Kenworth out of Canada. Took a lot of random road shots- headed up to that little dot on top of the mountain. and there it is.... more road shots- and then...on the way home I saw this girl sitting in a chair by the road in Winfall.

They just got you married, that's all.

We need more of this...

There's an old saying, "it's just as easy to be nice to people as it is to be hateful" and it's very true, makes you wonder why some people choose to be a-holes.

She's getting warmed up for her turn on the pole...

Took a few so far, mostly playing with the new picture taking device. Saw this aminal in a tree before I left. Saw this creature on the side of a boxcar in Dillwyn. Saw these goats. I never changed any settings on the camera but they looked different, the sun was already down. Then I took a picture of the sky because that one cloud looked like a dog's head. Saw some machines too-orange ones and yellow ones. Nice nut covers,eh? I saw a car... ...and a girl in a car. Saw some apples too. Leaves are already turning. Still liking that zoom! That house and those transformers are way over there. The sign on the fence. Mountain in Lynchburg.

Took a couple pictures of the rail when I unloaded Monday.

I think he was a member here- seems to me somebody commented on his truck one time and he apparently joined just to reply to that comment, and hasn't been heard from since. Anybody else remember?..I could have dreamed it, but I don't think so.

again.

thanks, those are good looking B's. The black and blue looks really good.

never got to Nashville, but getting through Knoxville is bad enough. From the 75/40 split to the 40/81 split is just a big pain in the ass, very congested. Getting there right around 5 o'clock Friday evening didn't help either.

me too.

me neither.

yep, came up 59 to 24 to 55 over to McMinnville, then north on 56 to where I loaded, place called Tennsmith. Then I took 56 north up to 40.