The Gipper's Guide to America

[gftChris]

@axe said:

Gonna have to disagree with both of you tho this is less than 50 miles south of Indian Rocks Beach

One of many I've taken in my neck o the woods..

Meh?

Just last week I watched the sunset from Bali over the eastern volcanoes of Java. It looked something like this:

[The Gipper]

Those are all nice, but I still rank Cape Flattery on top of those. Here is a canned photo. What I saw was much much better than this:

[gftChris]

That's pretty. Looks like the contrasts have been played with - no way the water is that blue with the sun that low. But still, pretty.

As I said, that as just last week. It's a bit unfair as I get to watch the sunset across London every day now for a couple of months from my desk on the 40th floor in canary wharf.

[The Gipper]

@gftchris said:

That's pretty. Looks like the contrasts have been played with - no way the water is that blue with the sun that low. But still, pretty.

As I said, that as just last week. It's a bit unfair as I get to watch the sunset across London every day now for a couple of months from my desk on the 40th floor in canary wharf.

Do they have sunsets in London? I thought all you saw was drizzle?

[gftChris]

Mostly. But because of all the cloud, we do get some gorgeous colours. Here's one I took the other day (from my phone, just for impressions):

[gftChris]

You don't get the full effect since it's a shitty phone camera, but with a decent camera you'd get some pretty stunning views.

[The Gipper]

Nice, very nice. Is that pointy thing in the distance "The Shard"?

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@gftchris said:

Mostly. But because of all the cloud, we do get some gorgeous colours. Here's one I took the other day (from my phone, just for impressions):

I see a hazy sunset with varying colors of gray.......

[gftChris]

Yeah it's not a great picture, as I say. IRL, the orange spreads out across most of the sky, particularly when the clouds are sparse, you get reflection from the river (as well as the building on the right).

Not saying it's the best, but it's a decent standard every day.

[gftChris]

@the-gipper said:

Nice, very nice. Is that pointy thing in the distance "The Shard"?

Yep, that's the one.

[The Gipper]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

I see a hazy sunset with varying colors of gray.......

[Axe]

Some more Meh

Again, from right here in the 34217

[The Gipper]

@the-gipper said:

In checking I see that I still have quite a number of "battlefield" or at least "war related" National Parks units which I have not been to. Here is a list of some I would like to visit at some point:

Revolutionary War related sites: Boston NHP (Bunker Hill, Old North Church). George Rogers Clark (Indiana)

War of 1812: Horseshoe Bend (really a battle with Creek Indians, but 1812 related)

Civil War: Pea Ridge, Ark. Andersonville Ga. Ft. Scott Kan., Peco, New Mex.

Indian Wars: Fort Smith Ark. Sand Creek Massacre, Colo. Fort Larned, Kan., Big Hole Battlefield, Mont., Washita Battlefield, Okla., Knife River, North Dak.

WWII: Tuskeegee Airmen Ala, Port Chicago Cal. Rosie the Riveter Cal., War in the Pacific, Guam.. Minidoka, Idaho (Japanese Internment camp)

Cold War: Minuteman Missile NHP, South Dakota.

I will be visiting the Big Hole battlefield in a couple of weeks....plus I may make a return trip to The Little Bighorn.

I did visit the Big Hole Battlefield this past October....and made a repeat visit to The Little Bighorn.

And I also plan to visit the Moore's Creek Battlefield in North Carolina....perhaps as soon as this coming Sunday (March 29, 2015)

That is a Revolutionary War Battlefield.

For those of you who mentioned Outer Banks/NC Coast sunrises.....I will be staying on a NC beach for a week starting Saturday. I will have to check out those sunrises/sunsets. Where I am staying they claim you can see the sun rise at one end of the beach and set at the other end.

[calfoxwc]

Just last week I watched the sunset from Bali over the eastern volcanoes of Java. Chris

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Say, is that like Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house?

[calfoxwc]

Are you talking about the MAPS Museum Cal? I thought that was a aviation museum...not strictly limited to WWII....unless we are thinking of something else? The old 356th Fighter Group restaurant is closed up now, no? Always liked that place.

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Actually, yes. It does have a lot of WWII stuff. I misspoke. And yeah, that restaurant is closed. Couldn't compete

with the Texas Roadhouses...

btw, next time you get near that airport. Email me, we aren't all that far.....

[The Cysko Kid]

@the-gipper said:

I did visit the Big Hole Battlefield this past October....and made a repeat visit to The Little Bighorn.

And I also plan to visit the Moore's Creek Battlefield in North Carolina....perhaps as soon as this coming Sunday (March 29, 2015)

That is a Revolutionary War Battlefield.

For those of you who mentioned Outer Banks/NC Coast sunrises.....I will be staying on a NC beach for a week starting Saturday. I will have to check out those sunrises/sunsets. Where I am staying they claim you can see the sun rise at one end of the beach and set at the other end.

Is the outer banks far enough out to actually watch the sun set over the water to the west?

[The Gipper]

@the-cysko-kid said:

Is the outer banks far enough out to actually watch the sun set over the water to the west?

Parts of it certainly is. I took a ferry across Pamlico Sound and could not see land either to the east or to the west.

FYI, I saw a sunrise....it wasn't all that. Just a sunrise over water....same as any eastern facing. Nothing to compare to Haleakala.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Sunrise on Mt. Fuji. Priceless.

[The Gipper]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Sunrise on Mt. Fuji. Priceless.

You mean in the Land of the Rising Sun? I am sure it would be.

[Browns149]

@the-gipper said:

Parts of it certainly is. I took a ferry across Pamlico Sound and could not see land either to the east or to the west.

FYI, I saw a sunrise....it wasn't all that. Just a sunrise over water....same as any eastern facing. Nothing to compare to Haleakala.

The sunrise is different, if you got up early to see it, or you haven't gone to bed yet, and you saw it