American Road Trip 1979 on Kodachrome

#USA16-08 Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, 23 May 1979

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Excellent photos, Lynn! You got to see parts of rural America that most Americans have no clue about. I lived in East Tennessee in my teens and twenties in the 80s and 90s. I haven't been back since, but I'm sure much has changed and much is the same.
 
Excellent photos, Lynn! You got to see parts of rural America that most Americans have no clue about. I lived in East Tennessee in my teens and twenties in the 80s and 90s. I haven't been back since, but I'm sure much has changed and much is the same.
Thanks Peter! I guess I was lucky, given the itinerary was mostly fixed, and also the whistlestop nature of most of the tour, much of the time spent driving. The extra day in Tennessee while the van was being fixed took a day out of a planned two day stay in NYC, which was a big disappointment.
 
Thirteen days from Arizona to Washington DC, wow! I took six weeks to cover mostl ofthose places you did, but then I also visited as many Civil War battlefields as I could find on maps in those pre-internet days, where we had to read thru piles of books for the information we needed.

You must have traveled super light. What gear did you take with you? Did you carry all your films with you, or buy it along the way as I did (mostly from K-Mart, now and then from small photo stores I saw along the way). I should reread this entire thread, likely you have already posted about this. My bad. Sorry. Did yo

Yet you still managed to take more gorgeous photographs than I did.

Envious, I am.
 
Thirteen days from Arizona to Washington DC, wow! I took six weeks to cover mostl ofthose places you did, but then I also visited as many Civil War battlefields as I could find on maps in those pre-internet days, where we had to read thru piles of books for the information we needed.

You must have traveled super light. What gear did you take with you? Did you carry all your films with you, or buy it along the way as I did (mostly from K-Mart, now and then from small photo stores I saw along the way). I should reread this entire thread, likely you have already posted about this. My bad. Sorry. Did yo

Yet you still managed to take more gorgeous photographs than I did.

Envious, I am.
Those Civil War battlefields would be fascinating. I've seen a few documentaries. Yes I travelled light, just the FE and three primes 35, 50 and 105. Plus 60 rolls of Kodachrome I brought along from Australia (see post #1). Thanks for the compliment!
 
#USA16-23 Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, 23 May 1979
If you're into first hand accounts of aviation in the early days I can recommend 'Fate Is The Hunter' by Ernest K Gann. A fascinating autobiography from a barnstormer-turned-airline pilot, when prop-powered airliners had to fly through the weather rather than over it.

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