On the way home yesterday we stopped at the 9-11 memorial in Shanksville where Flight 93 had crashed. It’s really interesting to see how an event could change a town of 240 people in the middle of nowhere. There’s nothing but some farms and a few houses where it crashed, and there’s a temporary memorial while a larger one is planned to be built. It’s just a chain link fence where you can attach things, and a lot of people showing up to check it out.
Central and western PA now is like going back in time, somewhere around the Smokey and the Bandit era.
This was a second Frank Lloyd Wright house not far from Falling Water
Some cool pictures of London at night.
This is a little old, but still good. It’s an interactive view of the Olympic pool in Beijing. I never did find out when pools became water cubes, they’ll probably do something equally dumb in the winter and call the pipe a stunt ditch.
This is what 2nd Street in Strathmere looks like when there’s waves, cars as far as you can see. This was from Hanna, hopefully Ike will treat us even better…
We did a long weekend in Sarasota for Labor day, just getting missed by Gustav.
Dedication:
I’ve been coming here my whole life and haven’t once seen it surfable. There were easily 100+ people in the water with shoulder to head high waves.
We shot down to Atlantic City after work last night because Nick was going to be shooting a Red Bull tow-in surf contest at Caesar’s pier. We had an extra surprise when we found Steve from Pioneers there and in the contest along with a batch of east coast pros. It was cool to watch, and a good solution to unreliable waves. Nick was working hard and we got to catch up a little, and then went to Continental to get some dinner with Steve, who was so exhausted he looked like he had been plowed over by a bus.
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chuck | 
September 22, 2008 8:32 pm | 
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