{"id":22737,"date":"2021-12-19T21:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T21:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=22737"},"modified":"2021-12-19T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T21:46:14","slug":"life-island-times-tripping-northward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-tripping-northward\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Tripping Northward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSouth Carolina Overnight Train Scene<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: We were going to run this tomorrow, but some inspired responses prompt an early go.<\/p>\n

– Vic<\/p>\n

Author\u2019s Note: As promised earlier, here\u2019s an installment of photos from and thoughts on our December journey out of CovidLand to, from as well as during our Big Apple stay.<\/p>\n

Have a Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n

-Marlow<\/p>\n

Nighttime does funny things to our human perceptions. So also does it affect our modern high tech cameras. Creepy, no?<\/p>\n

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\nSomewhere in lower South Carolina onboard Amtrak’s Silver Meteor #98 December 8 2021<\/p>\n

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\nPotomac River dawn just south of Quantico Virginia December 9 2021<\/p>\n

When I reviewed the next image upon our Savannah return, I found its composition to be suggestive of Thomas Jefferson wryly commenting on today\u2019s faux emergency crisis du jour mentality.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom beyond the grave December 9 2021<\/p>\n

W is utterly fascinated by water towers, so I photograph them when they look like good candidates. Here are two examples:<\/p>\n

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\nWater towers north of downtown DC (l) and Philly (r) December 9 2021<\/p>\n

Trenton\u2019s 1935 bridge across the Delaware River reminded me of the city\u2019s once preeminent place in manufacturing during the world\u2019s first Industrial Revolution. It was home to iron refining and metalworking like the wire rope company that became our nation’s largest iron company and whose rope products and innovative designs of suspension bridges were utilized in various projects like 1883\u2019s Brooklyn Bridge promoted as the “eighth wonder of the world” as well as the America\u2019s most prominent ceramics firm established in 1889 by Walter Lenox and Jonathan Coxon, later known around the world as the Lenox China Company. With today\u2019s digital adjuncts, it and America\u2019s citizens can do it again.<\/p>\n

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\nYeah baby! — Trenton New Jersey\u2019s bridge over the Delaware River<\/p>\n

All I can say is Here\u2019s Newark . . .<\/p>\n

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\nNewark New Jersey\u2019s Amtrak Station December 9 2021<\/p>\n

During our cab ride to the hotel from Penn Station, I saw some simple red lettered neon that expressed why I love NYC and, yes, New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

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\nLove NYC and it\u2019ll love you back
\nSay yes to Wine and Pizza
\nDecember 9, 2021<\/p>\n

Our fractious times briefly came home to me only two minutes later after we had passed by numerous, fully manned Covid testing tent sites on various Broadway street corners in Manhattan. Peak awareness occurred as our cab careened around Columbus Circle, when we saw America\u2019s first white supremacy guy. I laughed a bit at the security measures he now has in place. Apparently, NYPD has been babysitting all of the five borough\u2019s Columbus monuments with vehicles, barricades and officers since the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n

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\nProtecting Old Chris
\nDecember 9 2021<\/p>\n

Despite the then unindicted ex-Governor Cuomo and some city council members kvetching earlier this year, these statues remain standing tall — upright, unvandalized, undefeated, and unredefined.<\/p>\n

Gotta Love NYC and New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

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