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Road-tripping With my Dog
Failing at throwback Thursday again.
Here I am in May of 2008, at a monument marking the 45th parallel, halfway between the Equator and the North Pole.
My dog, Kuma the Wonder Akita, and I took a road trip all by ourselves from Kenosha up to the Keweenaw Peninsula for a weekend. We slept in our car, ate cold Spaghetti-O's out of a can (well, I did; dog food for him), and stopped every damn place that caught my interest. Heavens, I miss trips like this.
My pictures from back then are so interesting to me. There are a few gems, but most of them make me think of all the things I'd do differently now. Some of them would benefit from cropping and reframing too, but if I start doing that, they're never going to get posted!
I'll probably give a bit more attention to shots of old rusting mining equipment and other ruins. That's mostly what I go up there to photograph.
Kuma had the whole back of the Dog Star, my late, lamented Chevy Aveo, to himself during the trip. The backseat folded flat up against the front seat, and the whole back cargo area was a wonderful dog den when lined with blankets and such.
I owned this car for all of three months before it was rear-ended and totaled. It was a near-perfect car for me, as well as the newest and nicest one I've ever owned. It was nice to be able to afford something like that when I was working in IT. I still miss it.
This field was the view that greeted Kuma and I when the sun shining into my car woke us up. I'd left late in the day. We only made it to near Crivitz before we parked for the night, just off of highway 141 in an empty field.
Here I am in May of 2008, at a monument marking the 45th parallel, halfway between the Equator and the North Pole.
My dog, Kuma the Wonder Akita, and I took a road trip all by ourselves from Kenosha up to the Keweenaw Peninsula for a weekend. We slept in our car, ate cold Spaghetti-O's out of a can (well, I did; dog food for him), and stopped every damn place that caught my interest. Heavens, I miss trips like this.
My pictures from back then are so interesting to me. There are a few gems, but most of them make me think of all the things I'd do differently now. Some of them would benefit from cropping and reframing too, but if I start doing that, they're never going to get posted!
I'll probably give a bit more attention to shots of old rusting mining equipment and other ruins. That's mostly what I go up there to photograph.
Kuma had the whole back of the Dog Star, my late, lamented Chevy Aveo, to himself during the trip. The backseat folded flat up against the front seat, and the whole back cargo area was a wonderful dog den when lined with blankets and such.
I owned this car for all of three months before it was rear-ended and totaled. It was a near-perfect car for me, as well as the newest and nicest one I've ever owned. It was nice to be able to afford something like that when I was working in IT. I still miss it.
This field was the view that greeted Kuma and I when the sun shining into my car woke us up. I'd left late in the day. We only made it to near Crivitz before we parked for the night, just off of highway 141 in an empty field.