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Coos Bay Abandoned Rail Bridge

18 Apr

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Leaving Coos Bay, I spotted a very long abandoned rail bridge leading out of the railyard and heading North.  We pulled over and I walked along the tracks a good distance.

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The bridge was in very poor condition.  The constantly wet Pacific Northwest weather had caused the paint to peel away exposing rust underneath, and some of the planks were soft to the step.

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Others had rotted straight through.

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The bridge was built in 1914, as the date had been cut out of the steel.  It was a swing span, designed so that a section of it could spin perpendicular to the rest of the bridge to allow boats to pass.

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San Francisco

18 Apr

I decided to spend one of my last few days living in San Francisco walking around town and shooting some of the more “touristy” areas that I never really spent much time in before.  I walked from the Mission District to the Financial District, and then through North Beach to Coit Tower and down to the Embarcadero where I caught a historic streetcar on the way back home.  Here are some photos from my walk:

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Whiskytown Lake

15 Apr

This will be my first “What I’m up to” post.

Currently, I’m sitting on the top of a rocky bluff next to Whiskytown Lake.  It’s about an hour West of the town of Redding in Northern California.

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Here’s my “mobile office”, where I’m writing from right now:

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I shot these photos with a cool app for my iPhone called Hipstamatic.

I have a Verizon USB EVDO card, so I can essentially connect to the internet anywhere there is cell service.  It’s a bit slow out here, but it works well enough to post to the blog.  Having a computer and internet access this far into what is essentially the remote wilderness seems to be defeating the purpose a bit, but the beauty of it is that I can do my job from here.  Nothing is an escape, nothing is a vacation, but yet everything can be an escape and a vacation.

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