Some snaps from my American roadtrip (pics)

I finally got around to taking the pictures from my vacation off of my camera. So, I thought I would show everybody how I am not really a photographer and throw a few of them up to share.

So, we after flying into Philly my partner and I joined my parents in a mini van and drove up to the Boston area where we went to one of my favourite places on the planet.

It is a place called Rockport on Cape Anne, Mass. I love Cape Anne in general but when you were on the busy city streets less than 48 hours before a view like this one is particularly refreshing:



Then the next day we went whale watching and left from my favourite Cape Anne town called Gloucester (it is the place where the boat featured in the book and film A Perfect Storm went out from). I have been on many whale watches growing up and this one wasn't the best as far as the number of whales but it was still great. One of the best bits was that this whale in this picture is one called Trident and she is so old that when I went on my first watch 16 years ago she was one of the whales we saw on that trip too:




Then we had to make a trip to geek Mecca. I went to university in Boston so it wasn't such a big deal for me but I had a major geek (said in a nice way) with me who insisted that if we were near Boston he had to go to Cambridge and see MIT.

So, the MIT dome:




This is a building on the MIT campus that I thought was especially cool:




Then we got back in the van and drove to Niagara Falls. We did the Maid of the Mist like the people in this pic:




Then we did the thing where you can walk behind the falls and got even more wet:




Whenever I go to the Falls I enjoy standing at the bit where the water goes over. I love the contrast between the calm and then the sudden chaos:




Then on the morning we left we voyaged into the less than glossy part of the the Canadian side of the falls and went to the UFO diner. My love of absurd meant that once I saw it I had to go to it:




Then we drove to Cleveland, Ohio to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I could start a whole thread on the issues I had with their selections and people that should be there but aren't but I still enjoyed it. I was happy there was a Clash exhibit on but my head hurt with my mother asking me who they were every time she saw their name.

This is a Crocodile Rock guitar outside the museum with the museum in the background:



Then we drove all day back to the Philly area where I spent a week with my folks at their place.