Places where we would have liked to have had a Reo along with us, but did not.
I am starting this as a picture travelogue of sorts of places we've been during our lives where a REO mod would have made the visit even more enjoyable. Pictures of places could be from anytime in our lives, from anywhere in the outdoors or indoors, anywhere in the world. Places with scenery, any kind of attractions, interesting oddities, stories, etc... but with no Reos (or any other vape gear) in the pictures. The whys? Because you didn't have a Reo when there... and because I have always enjoyed seeing pictures of South Africa itself on the forum, a place that I have never been to. So I thought maybe pictures from other out and about places around the world might be fun for Reo folks to add to this thread, and enjoy viewing them too.
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I guess I wasn't clear enough that my intent was for this to be more a travelogue than just another photo album thread. IOW, pictures of places with at least a short short story about the pictures to add interest to them and maybe the spark to want to find out more about those places.
Photo album definition: a book that contains a collection of photographs.
Definition of travelogue. 1 : a talk or lecture on travel usually accompanied by a film or slides.
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I'll start it by revisiting the 1970's when I lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It's about a place with strange stories and it's residents that leaned to the evil side. It's also one of the few places where the tallest trees on earth live, the Coastal Redwood that can stand up to over 390' (119 meters) tall and be over 30' (9 meters) in diameter.
A short ways down the coast from Carmel to Big Sur there is a narrow eerie canyon called Palo Colorado Canyon. The big trees make the very small road fairly dark even mid day. And fog often comes in off the ocean far into the canyon as well. So it is also an almost always wet, always mossy and moldy place from condensed fog dripping off the huge trees. Even more eerie though was the few residents that lived there in makeshift shacks mostly. They were very secretive folks that as you drove by they would peek out of window drapes, but never come out when strangers were in the canyon uninvited. Stories suggested things like some were criminals hiding out from the law, that it was an illegal drug haven or they were aliens. Since it is a dead end canyon to a trail head (that I used to hike the coastal mountains from), you had to run the "gauntlet" past the locals twice.
Maybe if I could have chucked some big clouds from a Reo back then a local or two might have came out to better see this strange deed, and I could confirm whether they were aliens or not.
Another tie to this... I have a very heavy 7' long coffee table made from a thick slab of the base of a huge Coastal Redwood that was killed by lightning in Palo Colorado Canyon that burned out it's entire core to ground level. The slab is in the shape of a huge foot (with toes), singed black in the instep area from the lighting, and has a base that is two huge pieces of driftwood from Big Sur beach. It has a matching 2.5' X 3.5' wall clock also made from a thinner slab of that tree. I've had them since the mid 70's (note that the wood for both was harvested via a legal permit).
I am starting this as a picture travelogue of sorts of places we've been during our lives where a REO mod would have made the visit even more enjoyable. Pictures of places could be from anytime in our lives, from anywhere in the outdoors or indoors, anywhere in the world. Places with scenery, any kind of attractions, interesting oddities, stories, etc... but with no Reos (or any other vape gear) in the pictures. The whys? Because you didn't have a Reo when there... and because I have always enjoyed seeing pictures of South Africa itself on the forum, a place that I have never been to. So I thought maybe pictures from other out and about places around the world might be fun for Reo folks to add to this thread, and enjoy viewing them too.
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ETA:
I guess I wasn't clear enough that my intent was for this to be more a travelogue than just another photo album thread. IOW, pictures of places with at least a short short story about the pictures to add interest to them and maybe the spark to want to find out more about those places.
Photo album definition: a book that contains a collection of photographs.
Definition of travelogue. 1 : a talk or lecture on travel usually accompanied by a film or slides.
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I'll start it by revisiting the 1970's when I lived in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It's about a place with strange stories and it's residents that leaned to the evil side. It's also one of the few places where the tallest trees on earth live, the Coastal Redwood that can stand up to over 390' (119 meters) tall and be over 30' (9 meters) in diameter.
A short ways down the coast from Carmel to Big Sur there is a narrow eerie canyon called Palo Colorado Canyon. The big trees make the very small road fairly dark even mid day. And fog often comes in off the ocean far into the canyon as well. So it is also an almost always wet, always mossy and moldy place from condensed fog dripping off the huge trees. Even more eerie though was the few residents that lived there in makeshift shacks mostly. They were very secretive folks that as you drove by they would peek out of window drapes, but never come out when strangers were in the canyon uninvited. Stories suggested things like some were criminals hiding out from the law, that it was an illegal drug haven or they were aliens. Since it is a dead end canyon to a trail head (that I used to hike the coastal mountains from), you had to run the "gauntlet" past the locals twice.
Maybe if I could have chucked some big clouds from a Reo back then a local or two might have came out to better see this strange deed, and I could confirm whether they were aliens or not.
Another tie to this... I have a very heavy 7' long coffee table made from a thick slab of the base of a huge Coastal Redwood that was killed by lightning in Palo Colorado Canyon that burned out it's entire core to ground level. The slab is in the shape of a huge foot (with toes), singed black in the instep area from the lighting, and has a base that is two huge pieces of driftwood from Big Sur beach. It has a matching 2.5' X 3.5' wall clock also made from a thinner slab of that tree. I've had them since the mid 70's (note that the wood for both was harvested via a legal permit).
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