Category: Travel Blog
Dryden, Ontario
Well yet another stay in the small northern town of Dryden has come around … it is centrally located between Thunder Bay ONT and Winnipeg MB, along the Trans-Canada Highway. It is the home town of NHL super star Chris Pronger and Max the Moose, the town’s mascot, a large cement statue whom stands 18 feet tall and weighs nine tons, found outside the Dryden Information Centre.
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Sioux Lookout, Ontario
Currently doing a few small LIDAR jobs in the Sioux Lookout area. Sioux Lookout is a town in northern Ontario (about a 4 and half hour drive west from Thunder Bay). It claims to have a population of 5200 and also known locally as the “Hub of the North” (although I see that phrase in other northern towns as well).
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Hocking Hills State Park – Logan, Ohio (July 2009)
Within the Hocking Hills park are several spectacular features based around rock formations, including Old Man’s Cave (a narrow, deep gorge, with many waterfalls), Cantwell Cliffs (a broad gorge at the head of a hollow with a unique stone stairway) and Ash Cave / Cedar Falls (large rock caves with water falls.
Like most of my TITAN road trips, I cover a broad geography in a short time, off witch does not allow much time to fully explore. However judging from what little time I was able to spend here, I thought it was a pretty scenic area, very rural or back country style with several scenic nature trails allowing a person to step back from the everyday hustle and bustle (The geology is always a bonus too).
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TITAN Cross Country Road Trip 4 (July 2009)
Although this may have been my shortest road trip since I started traveling with the Terrapoint Titan mobile LIDAR system we still crossed through eight states and 1 province along about a 3160+ kilometer journey in seven days …
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the Nicaraguan Lawn Mower …
I found this neat T Shirt while walking around one of the local markets in Managua and couldn’t resist getting it (especially since it was only $5).
And, actually the funnier part of this little story was …
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Rio Blanco, Nicaragua (May 2009)
For this job we were based in the town of Rio Blanco of Matagalpa, or basically the furthest town east of Managua that is still on the pavement (even though our project was about 60 km further east … this was the closest town to base out of).
Rio Blanco is much more of a town then the people in Managua seem to have given it credit, and although it certainly is a little bit different then most towns I have stayed in, it is not all bad. Perhaps a little rough around the edges but it seems to have all the necessary basics that we need to operate with. …
Managua Airport Hanger (May 2009)
Well after a lengthy wait and battle to get the Nicaraguan Customs to finally release our equipment to us, we were able to get to work.
We rented a hanger at the airport to use while we installed our LIDAR equipment onto the helicopter. Well actually it was more so a shelter from the sun then a traditional aircraft hangar as we would define it back home (… but glad to have it none the less).
Archipielago las Isleta on Lake Nicaragua (May 2009)
After checking in the city of Granada we went on an ecological tourism side of things by going on a guided boat tour of the Archipielago las Isleta, on Lake Nicaragua, a few minutes south of Granada. Our young tour guide promised us that on the tour we would see where some of the richest in the country live, see some historic forts and buildings and perhaps see some wild life and nature. Very exciting to some I sure but more so just a nice change from the typical colonial like sights and was also much cooler on the lake then it was in the city – witch was a nice change.
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