Welcome to London
Playing around with my new camera on London….clearly i have a lot to learn
Occupy Wall Street
Rather disappointingly the Occupy Wall Street people are nowhere near Wall Street which is occupied exclusively by cops. The Protesters are in a small private park a few blocks away
Roof Top Sledging
It is still October, summer was just a few short weeks ago. Fall has been cancelled this year as we have moved directly into winter after yesterday’s blanket of snow. It is bizarre to see the ground all whiten and green leaves still on the trees.
What better way to celebrate the coming of a new season than sledging on the roof…
Georgia and Tennessee
Atlanta seen from the top of the Western Hotel
Atlanta seen from the top of the Western Hotel
Atlanta, the home of Coca Cola
The Atlanta Metro. photo by Abram Kanzer
The view from my tent at Skydive The Farm in Rockmart, Georgia
A skydiver swoops the pond at sunset at Skydive The Farm
Marjorie working the late shift at Waffle House in northern Georgia
The Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee, site of Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968
The Lorraine Hotel is now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum
Elvis Lives in Memphis
Live music on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee
Local Memphian runs for the trolley
Bella Flek and his wife play a free concert in Memphis
The old and the new, Nashville, Tennessee
A cowboy hangs out outside a live music venue in Nashville, Tennessee
Pulled pork and beans from Jacks BBQ photo by Abram Kanzer
Nashville Tennessee, Country music capital of the world. photo by Abram Kanzer
The North of the South…of North America
New Yorkers, Brooklyn
The Atlantic Ocean in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The home of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first powered flight.
The border between North and South Carolina. Fireworks are legal in the South but illegal in the North, so the border is nothing more than a collection of fireworks superstores
Lady tourist on the shores of a South Carolina Lake
The Bridge to Charleston, South Carolina
The Daughters of the Confederation, Charleston South Carolina
Cobbled Street in Charleston, South Carolina
The State Bank in Charleston, South Carolina
Street lamps still running off gas, Charleston
Historic buildings in Savannah, Georgia
The Waterfront, Savannah, Georgia
High Falls, Near Atlanta, Georgia
High Falls, Near Atlanta, Georgia
High Falls, Near Atlanta, Georgia
More of the Mid West and New England
Bring an umbrella
Lost somewhere in the backstreets of East Cleveland
The State Fair in Syracuse, New York
The State Fair in Syracuse, New York
The State Fair in Syracuse, New York
The State Fair in Syracuse, New York
Cliff diving in a quarry in Vermont
Hurricane Irene damage in Newton, MA
Little guys playing football
America – The Conquering of the Mid-West
For the last week I have been driving across the American Mid-West with a friend in a a 1981 Mercedes that runs on vegetable oil. We drove 2800 miles crossing 15 states, camping out in state parks or staying with friends along the way. Here are just a few of the pictures I took of the trip
Diggers sleep for the night in New Jersey
Road Trip – Maryland on the way to Baltimore
Swimming in a freezing cold river in Maryland
Steam rises from a river in Maryland
Welcome to Virgina – Our first stop in to the south
Rain in the West Virginian hills
Totally randomly we stopped on the side of the road in West Virginia and got out to stretch our legs. We followed a path a short distance into some woods that opened up into a beautiful clearing and a small river with a pebble beach and a rope swing.
Illinois sunset – as we race agains the sun to find somewhere to stay before darkness
Stained glass museum, Navy Pier, Chicago
Gary, Indiana – Industrial metropolis and childhood home of the Jacksons.
Flint, Michigan – The town made famous by Michael Moore and the GM car company. The town has seen better days and suffers from high levels of unemployment as GM has reduced its workforce by around 90% since its peak in the late 70′s
Detroit – Fires like this are a common occurrence. Detroit has huge levels of unemployment leaving many neighborhoods almost empty. House after house is boarded up, burned down or falling apart. The residents say that fires are common as property values have plummeted.
Firefighters prepare to enter the burning building to put out the fire. The building used to be an adult education centre, however it had been empty for sometime before the fire. This fire truck responds to similar incidents every week.
A local resident stands by as firemen tackle the burning building
Downtown Detroit, just over the river from Canada offers little clue of the city’s problems
