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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2011 19:04:46 GMT
Roads fascinate me (said Jack).
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Post by onlymark on Feb 20, 2012 19:48:09 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Feb 20, 2012 19:49:14 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Feb 20, 2012 19:50:02 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Feb 20, 2012 19:52:20 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Feb 20, 2012 20:18:56 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Feb 20, 2012 20:30:25 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Feb 20, 2012 21:18:09 GMT
Nice variety, Mark. Love the sand-mired one.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 21, 2012 3:26:52 GMT
Dang, Mark! Those are astoundingly wonderful photos. #121 is about as good as any photo could be, and the 3rd & the 5th ones in #135 had me trying to wish myself into the pictures.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 21, 2012 5:49:32 GMT
I love the switchbacks in #125. You really have seen some beautiful regions of the world. Lucky you. Cheers! Mich
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Post by nycgirl on Feb 21, 2012 6:17:29 GMT
Those are some killer roads you got there.
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Post by onlymark on Feb 21, 2012 6:35:31 GMT
I certainly have mich, and have driven on some dangerous roads. The last one was taken with my camera but I was driving at the time. It's a view to the rear, over the trailer, of a road in Pakistan. The jeep stuck one shows my daughters in pink, my son to their left and me to the right of the car standing looking and offering 'advice' like "For gawds sake, you don't do it like that!" and "Put your backs into it. You're blocking me coming through."
Roads, I have plenty of pictures of.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 21, 2012 18:33:21 GMT
Have you ever driven on an ice road? We have them north of here. The only way to get to some of the remote communities in Northern Ontario ( up near James Bay / Hudson Bay ) is to wait for winter to freeze the ground, lakes and rivers for transports to bring up any supplies they need that cannot be flown in. They are really dangerous to drive on.
Your last photo reminds me of the logging roads in British Columbia.
The photo with you and your children reminded me of the newest episode of The Amazing Race where one of the teams vehicle ended up stuck in the sand just off the shoulder of a road in Argentina and it seemed a regular occurrence that someone stopped by and pulled them out.
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Post by bjd on Feb 21, 2012 19:34:21 GMT
I like the colours in that first pic -- you get the impression that a huge storm is about to break out.
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Post by onlymark on Feb 21, 2012 19:50:25 GMT
I've not driven on an ice road mich. I do what I can to avoid really cold places.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 21, 2012 20:12:00 GMT
I agree with bjd, I had the same impression, very scary looking clouds at the end of that road!
Mark, I do not blame you, many people wish they could get as far away as possible from here in winter. We may be used to it, but we do not have to like it, ha ha! Lucky you that you have been able to live your adult life away from the cold. Right now is probably the busiest season for many Canadians to travel to sunny and warm destinations. I have never done that though.
Cheers!
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Post by onlymark on Feb 22, 2012 5:03:48 GMT
The first photo was towards the border between Botswana and Namibia and there was a very large storm I drove in to.
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Post by amboseli on Feb 23, 2012 12:02:26 GMT
Wadi Rum in Jordan R62 Cape Town / Oudtshoorn, South Africa Cobblestones in Carcassonne, France Alpine roads, France
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2012 17:02:39 GMT
another great assortment, amboseli. I posted this in Bridges, but as the entire road is a bridge, it belongs here as well. I'm wondering why they didn't just build the road at grade, though. The expense of elevating miles of road has to outweigh any advantages of having the road in the air instead of on the ground, I would think.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2012 17:13:08 GMT
It is probably a question of mentality as well. The descendants of the historical builders of so many incredible aqueducts are probably drawn to this method, which I'm sure has a certain number of defendable merits.
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Post by amboseli on Feb 25, 2012 17:13:44 GMT
Where is this road/bridge, Kimby?
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2012 17:47:05 GMT
On Sicily. But there are lots of these long viaducts in southern Italy. And tunnels carrying multi lane highways. Very different environmental standards than in the US, for sure.
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Post by onlymark on Feb 25, 2012 19:51:18 GMT
The only two advantages I can think of with building that elevated road is that firstly the owners of the land still have access underneath it from one side to the other. The second is that maybe the land is prone to flooding.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 25, 2012 19:59:07 GMT
It is probably a question of mentality as well. The descendants of the historical builders of so many incredible aqueducts are probably drawn to this method, which I'm sure has a certain number of defendable merits. You mean the people who did this? K2 knows where this is. I believe it used to be used as a road - as well as an aqueduct - but now is a footbridge.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2012 16:21:15 GMT
As a little boy, I was even in a car that drove across it!
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Post by imec on Feb 28, 2012 3:44:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 15:32:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 20:56:42 GMT
Cool. That's in the north, no?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 4, 2012 23:23:29 GMT
Two wonderful photos in a row, plus a great juxtaposition. Singly & together, they made me marvel at what the earth contains.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2012 8:54:10 GMT
Cool. That's in the north, no? Yes, that's along the English Channel. More here
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