Where In The World Are 8BTers?
 

Sure you can! Here you go.

So, everyone else, go ahead and post pictures of your road trips for all of us to see.

Jon probably thinks I'm acting out of character, being charitable like this.

No one needed your permission to start their own roadtrip thread. You know, the whole:

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They/he only asked because the other thread was about your own trip.

Croteam's Magnificent Adventures
 

Last summer I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take a trip from Maui to San Francisco, then south to Los Angeles. (Maui was by far the best, but the majority of those pictures are stored on another computer, and some of the more exciting ones contain friends and family. Since I'm not sure how they'd feel about me posting their pictures, I've just posted ones of random people who could never find me.) Here's a few pictures from all three locations, along with the obligatory comments.

Maui 1: People from my tour group, and a nice view of the waters off of Hana, Maui. I tried repeatedly to get lost, but was sadly never picked up by beautiful lei-clad natives. Or mermaids.

Maui 2: This a picture from the summit of Haleakala, a volcano on the island of Maui. I couldn't capture it with the camera due to the barriers, but the crater of the volcano is over the edge of that cliff. If I had been stupider, I might have been, too.

Maui 3: After the clouds rolled in, the sun began to rise. We were taking a bike trip that started at the summit to catch the sunrise, then went 30 miles (all downhill, because we're lazy) to the ocean.

Maui 4: A final shot of the sunrise, with some onlookers and the information hut, which had neither power nor a rest-room.

Maui 5: Tourists. They're all wearing rain gear from the bike company because it was so unbelievably cold at the top. Wimps! (After taking this shot, I curled into a ball and cried until it was time to go.)

Maui 6: A view of a cliff from a sail boat, on the way from the town of Lahaina to the island of Lanai. Cliffs like this are a dime a dozen in Maui. (Sort of like sunburn.)

Maui 7: Maui has two "ecosystems." The first one fits and exceeds every idea of what you thought Hawaii would look like- lush, tropical, beautiful- while the other feels more like Arizona. It's barren and brown, the kind of place where cowboys kill each other for bringing salsa that's "Made in New York City."

San Francisco 1: A portion of the San Francisco skyline, from the ferry taking us to Alcatraz for racketeering and "Unquestionable Sex Appeal."

San Francisco 2: A view of Alcatraz itself. They've done a great job of improving security ever since Nick Cage and Sean Connery saved all those hostages in 1996.

San Francisco 3: The dock at Alcatraz. That tower isn't for shooting people- it's for pumping out fog to make the place look as scary as possible.

San Francisco 4: This is from the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. I never knew San Francisco had a Japanese Tea Garden...

San Francisco 5: ... until these people told me. I guess some people actually research the place they travel to.

San Francisco 6: This is where I fought the Game of Death by defeating opponents of varying martial arts. Unfortunately for me, the top layer didn't have Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- just a one way ticket out of the gardens for thirty days.

San Francisco 7: A view of Chinatown. The car didn't stop, and neither did I; I decided that day to join the track team. One of the stores had blue chicken meat. I still have absolutely no clue what it was, but it tasted fine. (Until three hours later.)

San Francisco 8: The extremely cuuuurvy Lombard Street, three hours after the blue chicken.

California Coast 1: Taken on the (scenic, longer) drive between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which suffers from a lack of pit stops. A nice view, but not the reason for the stop. (I'm holding the camera with one hand, and...)

California Coast 2: There's actually a waterfall, but apparently water is faster than the speed of light. At any rate, my camera captures rocks nicely.

Los Angeles 1: A view of the Hollywood sign, before it was destroyed in The Day After Tomorrow. The tour guide said it would be difficult to photograph due to smog. I didn't believe him. I should have listened.

Los Angeles 2: The great and magnificent Hollywood Bl! (And some stupid completely not-famous unknown building that ruined my photo study of a traffic light.)

Los Angeles 3: Clark Gable's handprints, outisde Grumman's Chinese Theater! The perspective is strange because the idiot with the camera (ahem) took the photo from the other side. I had to rotate it in Photoshop. (I have Robin Williams, Cary Grant, and Jack Nicholson too. They all look the same. If you want to see, just put "LAWilliams.gif", "LAGrant.gif", and "LAJack.gif", at the end of the links, respectively.)

And that's about all, because at that point I decided to check out the seedy nightlife. I, um, don't have pictures of that.

Yes. As opposed to being charitable you are in fact, very greedy to not share your own thread. pwned.

That being said, I don't have any pics of where I live but maybe I'll take some soon. It's Minnesota so right now = the pretty.

yay pictures ^__^

these are the hills near my house, you can see this view when you step out of my apartment
this is a sign in texas, gogogo joecb
my tenchi sitting on my grandmother's steps in Milwaukee, WI
tenchi again same day, sitting next Lake Michigan

Yar, Shiney's back. Besides, I didn't say people needed my permission. And I figure if Shiney and RaiRai are allowed to have their own picture thread, why can't I? Anyway, enough about that.

Croteam6, Maui looks interesting, too bad you had a big group to travel with. And I never knew SF had a Japanese Tea Garden, either. However, San Fransisco 2 is missing.

Leef, you're a mother? Is that your little brother?

thats my son! the tenchi!!! he's gonna be 6 next month :D

It wasn't a large group. The trip to Hana was guided by one woman, and consisted of seven people. The one on top of Haleakala was a shot of tourists there on a whim, several thousand biking companies, and the odd native. Again, our group had about ten people.

There was this one time, though, where I was in a large group. Of sharks, that is! I was eating a chum sandwich in the middle of the ocean and bleeding from my leg, when alluvasudden I was accosted by eight Mako sharks that probably don't live on this side of the world. And, they were led by a a mean looking Nurse shark. I had to fight for my life on that island! Guns were blazing, bombs were going off- it was radical, man. Needless to say, yours truly survived with nary a scratch.

Leef: Those are very nice pictures. That one of the hill especially is very pretty.

bleeding from my leg, = scratch

Arr!!! there be the joe.

Ill post more of the same picts that i normaly do when Zeth gets his website back from the evil.

It wasn't my blood. It was from the whale I had just captured and skinned for its blubber and luxurious oil. Nary a scratch, Joe. Nary.