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Archive for June, 2007

Welcome to Rhode Island

Filed under: History & RV & Travel by Erin on 6/27/2007

Little Rhody is, like many things with size issues, spunky and fiercely independent. The state is small (only 48 miles long and 37 miles wide), you can drive all the way through the state in 45 minutes (if traffic isn’t bad). Oddly enough our country’s smallest state has the longest official name, “State of Rhode [...]

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Found On or Near…

Filed under: Humor by Erin on 6/25/2007

A whole new area for bird watching! (We found this on a sign on Tybee Island, Georgia):

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June 2007 Mystery Photo Revealed

Filed under: Mystery Photo by Erin on 6/22/2007

This month’s mystery photo is a good example of what happens when an amateur photographer attempts to take a nighttime photo of a grey/black bird without flash. The photo was snapped at Balmorhea State Park in December of 2006. I was at the spring-fed pond way past sundown because all the inhabitants (fish, turtles, insects, [...]

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Mystery Photo, June 2007

Filed under: Mystery Photo by Erin on 6/15/2007

The sixth installment of Mystery Photo is here. June 2007 mystery photograph:

How to play: Find a hidden animal in the photo, then place your guess in the comment area below. Please be as specific as possible. Each month I will post a new photo for you to try and decipher. The photos are not doctored; [...]

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Five Days in Our Nation’s Capital

Filed under: RV & Travel by Erin on 6/13/2007

As some of you might have known, we planned on spending two weeks in the Washington D.C. area. Lance had scheduled a week’s vacation (the first since last May) around a conference and the rest of the time we were going to delve in and explore our nation’s capital. As they say the best laid [...]

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Raleigh Zydeco

Filed under: Travel & Video by Lance on 6/11/2007

This video features a short music segment by Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience.

While in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the cool things we attended was the Artsplosure Spring Arts Festival. Terrance Simien played with his band as part of the festival, and we really enjoyed their music.

Raleigh Zydeco[mp4 3.5MB, 43 sec]

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Turtle Cruisin’

Filed under: Travel & Video by Lance on

This female Yellowbelly Slider was really going fast—either to get to her nest or just after she left her nest to get back to the water. Erin shot this video when we visited Old Charles Towne (near Charleston, SC).

Yellowbelly Slider Cruisin’[mp4 2.9MB, 37 sec]

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North Carolina

Filed under: History & RV & Travel by Erin on 6/8/2007

We are moving pretty quickly these days because Lance has a conference in Arlington, Virginia that we are trying to make. While we enjoyed what little we saw of South Carolina it did seem a shame to have to leave it so soon. As for our time in North Carolina, it too would be brief. [...]

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Three-Hundred Thirty-Seven Years and Counting

Filed under: History & RV & Travel by Erin on 6/5/2007

Charleston, South Carolina is a place of firsts; the city grew from the first successful settlement in the Carolinas, it is home to America’s first theater building (the Dock Street Theatre which opened in 1736), the town gave the struggling new republic its first decisive victory of the Revolutionary War, the state was the first [...]

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Road Wise: Perception

Filed under: Road Wise by Erin on 6/1/2007

There are two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way. The older fish nodded at them and said, “Good morning boys, how’s the water?” The two young fish swim on for a bit, then one looked over at the other and said, “What the hell is [...]

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