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The Big Day Is Here, Will the Weather Cooperate?

The day I’ve been waiting for for years, the Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024.

Texas University campus at Austin on eclipse day.
Weather not looking too good right now.
Texas university
Texas University
Getting a little crowded here.
Lamp at Texas University.
Lamp at Texas University building entrance.
Green lamps at Texas University.
Entrances at Texas University are decorated with unique lamps. No two are exactly alike.
Great american eclipse 2024 a no go.
The Great American Total Solar Eclipse 2024 is a no-go!
darkness during totality
Darkness during totality.
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Downtown Austin

I arrive in Austin for the Great American Eclipse on April 8, 2024. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. I have a few days here, so my first stop will be downtown. A lot going on here today, and is quite busy in anticipation of the eclipse. Will also visit South Congress Street later.

Antique car at the entrance of tThe Driskill
Antique car at the entrance of tThe Driskill
Entrance to the Driskall
The downtown is very diverse in architecture.
The downtown is very diverse in architecture.
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Portland, Oregon and the Tualatin Crawfish Festival 2007

In August 2007 after not having a good vacation in a while, I decided to attend the 2007 Tualatin Crawfish Festival. I had just received an Oregon Scientific point and shoot digital camera and was starting to take photography seriously.

Portland's iconic street lamp
Portland’s iconic street lamp

In this post are just a few of the pics snapped up the five days in the great Pacific Northwest. I’ll have many more when I get all the pictures together.

Side of crawfish
Side of crawfish’

Of the many trips I’ve been on over the years, This is one of the most memorable. Not only was it the first of several visits to the Tualatin Crawfish Festival, but alot of fond memories of being in my former stomping grounds of Portland, OR.

Wells Fargo Center, Oregon's tallest building
Wells Fargo Center, Oregon’s tallest building

That was my first time back in PDX in five years. Now 16 years later the Tualatin Crawfish Festival is no more and Portland seems to be having some growing pains, but I’ll be back.

Marina on the Columbia River
Marina on the Columbia River

Although this post was published in September 2023, future post from past trips will be backdated to the time they occurred.

Red Mustang in the Crawfish parade
Red Mustang in the Crawfish parade’
Over the Broadway Bridge
’Over the Broadway Bridge
The Burnside Bridge over the Willamette River
The Burnside Bridge over the Willamette River
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On the Way to the Emerald City

Gas is 2.99 near Ceder City, Utah in March 2010
Gas is 2.99 near Ceder City, Utah in March 2010

It has been a while since I’ve been to Seattle and was eager to get back. Took the bus up through Salt Lake City, through Idaho and Montana. Then turned west to Spokane then on to Seattle.

Utah statehouse in Salt Lake
Utah statehouse in Salt Lake
Snow covered field in northern Utah
Snow covered field in northern Utah
Greyhound station in Pocatello,Idaho
Greyhound station in Pocatello,Idaho
Hotel Yellowstone in Pocatello, Idaho.
Hotel Yellowstone in Pocatello, Idaho. The yellow neon marquee must be quite impressive at night

Saw lots of old mid twentieth century buildings along the way. A few of them are posted here. Many more that I saw, but could not get a picture in time.

Kwikee Mart sign in Pocatello
Kwikee Mart in Pocatello. Like that sign!
Vintage Safeway near St Regis, Montana
Vintage Safeway near St Regis, Montana

Arrived in Seattle and stayed near Sea-Tac International Airport. I have come to know the control tower here as the “Cobra Head” since it sort of resembles a cobra. Great to be here!

The "cobra head" at Sea-Tac International
The “cobra head” at Sea-Tac International. Sort of looks like a cobra.