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Just because it looks like graffiti
As a general rule, I would say that anytime you see something that looks like it’s graffiti, but that includes a Twitter hashtag and what looks like a copyright symbol, you may be dealing with something else entirely.
Like this, which is actually an advertisement for a place where you could play ping-pong by day and listen to live music by night.
I don’t know…something seems horribly wrong here.
Austin, Texas
photographed 5.11.2013
Still gone…still internet-less. Got a comment? Please leave it, and I will reply when I am back. That’ll be July 7, if you are keeping score at home.
Self-serve
This was an interesting place to visit – the Grand Central Market, the oldest and largest open air market in Los Angeles. You can shop at La Adelita Panaderia/Tortilleria, Kabab and More, Economy Meats, Grand Central Liquor Store, Win Produce, or Roast to Go – just to choose a few at random.
In addition to all the delicious food, there are some great neon signs.
Here’s where you can go for more information.
Grand Central Market
Los Angeles, California
photographed 4.17.2013
Four days in to my non-internet vacation. How much do you think I am hating it? I’ll be back on July 7, and look forward to reading all the comments you’ve left while I’ve been gone.
Nice but not expensive
Found this little getaway down in Florida. Maybe this is where I am now, on my internet-free vacation….
Hint: see how that one sign says “free WiFi”?
St. Petersburg, Florida
photographed 10.29.2010
Travel = good! Travel with no internet = I’m a little nervous. If you want to comment on this post, please do. I promise that once the internet and I are on speaking terms again, I will get back to you. (I think we’ll be back together on July 7.)
Inside my head
Another day of prowling the archives, and I found this, from a trip to England a few years ago.
It wasn’t the grandeur of the cathedral that caught my eye (though it certainly is grand), nor the beautiful music we heard (it was very nice), nor the vast amount of history associated with the place (the building was saved by a deep-sea diver?!)
Nope. It was the way the columns of the great cathedral reminded me of some grain elevators in New Mexico.
Inside my mind? Yeah, it’s scary in there.
Winchester Cathedral
photographed 10.2007
I’m on vacation. And on vacation from the internet. Please go ahead and comment; I’ll get caught up with reading what you’ve got to say, and replying, sometime after July 7.
This building faces west. Unless it doesn’t.
My memory maintains that this bank of windows faced west, catching the late-afternoon sun. That may be true.
It is equally likely that they faced north and the glow is reflected light from a tall building nearby.
Most of the time I have a good sense of direction. There are a few places, though, where I always get lost. San Antonio, Texas: I can get lost walking around the block. Espanola, New Mexico: pretty sure I will end up permanently circling that place one of these days, looking for the highway to Abiququ. And Boston: I never knew WHERE I was, other than “in Boston.” And even that might not have been accurate, because I sure could have been in Charlestown or Cambridge or…
Boston, Massachusetts
photographed 8.31.2010
Also: I am going on a bit of a vacation. To someplace without much internet access. The posts will continue, and please leave comments. I will answer them as I can, and promise to get to all of them sooner or later. The internet and I will reconvene on July 7.
