| [spapad] Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:15:02 PM | |
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Beautiful shots! Love the Rays, the flower shot is awesome, the lava flows are wonderful, the JP homage is very cool, and of course the Might Walmart. lol
Looks like a great vacation.
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:28:39 AM | |
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Of course, all the posts below are to be read in backwards order. All save this one...HAD to take it. It is the helicopter coming in for a landing over the nearby Walmart! HAAAAA! Look closely at the close side (front-lower left), you can see the sign!
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:25:51 AM | |
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Last shots for now. Helicopter ride out of Hilo over the active lava flows. It is in the first shot below. I highlighted the red. It was so far inland that it would have taken an 11 hour hike (each way) to get close. Rest of the shots are from the helicopter showing craters from different volcanic years.
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:19:40 AM | |
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Best hike of the trip, by far. First shot is the GoPro wide shot of the Kilauea Iki crater. Takes about five hours to hike down there but, once there, it is like walking on the moon. Sulphur and steam vents everywhere. Dead silence save or the "crunch" of the volcanic rock under your feet.
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:15:51 AM | |
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Spent most of my time either snorkeling, scuba diving or hiking. This was a great hike. Took hours to get down to the beach level but it was worth it. I loved the rock constructions. I made one. Only about four lava rocks tall. Don't thnk it will stand the test of time.
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:11:47 AM | |
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Ok, by popular demand. I finally managed to pick through a few of the most impressive photos of Big Island.
December 31 was a big day. Put the Scuba diving lessons to good use. Night dive. You sit in the dark with a flashlight to attract krill which, in turn, attacts manta rays. Sometimes none show up, sometimes one or two. 17 showed up the night of my dive!
The size of these animals are just impressive. Mouth is easily the size of your body. They are the size and weight of a VW Bug. They say that you can't touch them but that doesn't mean that they can't touch YOU! I was filming with one hand and trying to grab lava rocks to hold me down with the other.
Two pictues. The first is one that I took as a still shot from a video I shot from a GoPro Hero 2 camera *great vid!" The second was from a german lady selling shots of the divers. That isn't me in the picture but a couple who will show the relative size of these animals.
Bucket-list dive. Check!
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:02:18 PM | |
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Thanks, all! It was certainly a great trip. Definitely looking foward to what the rest of the year will bring as far as traveling and vacationing goes.
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| [Becks] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:48:20 AM | |
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Wonderful pics Vail, certainly make me wish I wasn't going to work today and instead winging my way over there! LOL!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:50:29 AM)| |  | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I've got many more pics of the trip that need to be uploaded/organized, so to conclude for now here's one of me and my dogtag hiding in plain sight from the drug cartel crazies.
Best. Disguise. Ever. 
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| [HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:22:13 AM | |
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Beautiful pictures Vail!! Looks like you had a fantastic time!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:41:49 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Best part of Ixtapa (IMO): the island. 
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| [Budred] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:30:34 AM | |
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Thanks for posting the pics. I love the shot of the rock formations in the water.
I wish more people would post pics. Other than people being excessive with it (joke),
I think they're cool.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:41:49 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Best part of Ixtapa (IMO): the island.
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| [guidogodoy] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:21:17 AM | |
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Wonderful! Sounds like a lovely trip.
Hey, you came back in one piece. That is "the bar" as far as I am concerned!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:50:29 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I've got many more pics of the trip that need to be uploaded/organized, so to conclude for now here's one of me and my dogtag hiding in plain sight from the drug cartel crazies.
Best. Disguise. Ever.
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:50:29 AM | |
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I've got many more pics of the trip that need to be uploaded/organized, so to conclude for now here's one of me and my dogtag hiding in plain sight from the drug cartel crazies.
Best. Disguise. Ever.
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:41:49 AM | |
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Best part of Ixtapa (IMO): the island.
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:32:59 AM | |
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:25:49 AM | |
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Good evening, heavy metal travelers!
Just came back from staying a week in the town of Ixtapa in Mexico. 'Twas very nice. Beautiful beaches and all the fish and shrimp you can possibly eat. 
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| [Becks] Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:02:56 PM | |
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Great pics Vail, looks like your trip covered quite a bit of ground which is awesome. My sister has been to Berlin and Munich, she loved it. I'd love to go to oktoberfest one day haha!
Myself, I've only been to Paris on the continent. It was early January and it was FREEZING, lol! We walked everywhere, a drunk dude tried to pick a fight with me (which at the time was quite scary lol), Craig wanted to punch the guys trying to sell bracelet things on the steps leading to the Sacre Coeur cos they kept grabbing his arms to make him stop. LOVED the pastries, oh my goodness they were yummy  Climbing to the top of the Arc de Triomphe was a highlight for me, so was the catacombes.
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:05:35 AM | |
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:54:27 AM | |
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The festivities were still no match for the buildings that stand in the historic part of the city. Beautiful.
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:49:39 AM | |
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Ain't it cute?
Pssshhh! Who needs motors? Hand crank that sucker 'til those kids get dizzy! 
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:43:31 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Nice! Took me a minute to figure out what that bottom picture was at first. Thought it might be a medieval torture / dunking chair or something.
"Confess, kid, confess!!"
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Here are a few pics that I took while in Dresden on a class trip.
There was a state fair going on the day we got there, so we got to take in the festivities a bit.
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| [guidogodoy] Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:43:31 AM | |
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Nice! Took me a minute to figure out what that bottom picture was at first. Thought it might be a medieval torture / dunking chair or something.
"Confess, kid, confess!!"
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:28:02 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Here are a few pics that I took while in Dresden on a class trip.
There was a state fair going on the day we got there, so we got to take in the festivities a bit.
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