Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Depart Miami

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In the dark of night, depart.

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Bye Miami!

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Bye really big shipping dock.

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I just really like these, so your going to suffer through several.

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It’s totally ‘cause I can’t pick the best one.  That either means they are all awesome, or all mediocre.

And a video.  Why not?
jon

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Cruise, The Epic Exterior

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I guarantee they named this thing so everyone could make that kind of joke all the time.

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These ships are truly, unequivocally massive. I swear I saw one eat an aircraft carrier.

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Doesn’t seem hilariously oversized or nothin’ does it?  See the people along the dock, no?  I didn’t think so.  Beast is 19 stories high.

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However, the dock lines were rather small.  Well, not small as in tiny, but small as didn’t scale to gigantic like the rest of the blasted thing.

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Just thinking about how large the lines are for our tiny little fifty foot sailboat we ride on.  I’d say the diameter is about four times, for a ship that’s unestimatibly larger.

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They also had little disks to keep the cute little rats from climbing aboard.

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Looking up through the life rafts.

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And back towards the shore excursion.  Our only shore excursion.  Good thing it was AWESOME!

jon

Monday, January 10, 2011

Ridin’ the Inner Coastal

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Thank’s “Uncle Rick”.  Your such a great host. 

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We actually got a little lucky, the jet skis didn’t start.  We would have froze our tiny tushies off.

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Boat, building, boat, building.  It was all a bit redundant.

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Places on the inner coastal.  Not cheap.  Seriously, not cheap.  Different world.  In two miles, they probably had as many millionaires as in Milwaukee

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Even Norwegian import millionaires.

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Some fun chairs.

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Tricycle for adults.

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Seriously the ugliest house I have ever seen in person.  Especially considering how much it must have cost.  Bad design decisions abound.

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Lots of boats, lots of bridges.

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I thought this condo building was sort of cute.  It was pink.

jon

Sunday, January 9, 2011

There are Birds in Florida

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When they leave from Wisconsin, they run to a wonderful warm place. Florida.

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Pelican, pelican, don’t ask a pelican’t ask a pelican.

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As nice as he looks, he’s just waiting for the guy cleaning fish to “throw him a bone”.

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My perch damnit.

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My favorite. I hope you stop and enjoy this one a moment. The background is a bit ‘busy’, a function of the 4/3 system. Still, a great heron deserves your attention.

jon

Friday, January 7, 2011

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Urban Art

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Hopes and dreams on a concrete block wall.  Maybe if we draw a beautiful park, someday it will come and replace gravel and grass.

jon

Wednesday, January 5, 2011