Early morning, Keystone, Colorado, high in the Rocky Mountains: Friend dashes upstairs yelling to his wife and I, "Get your cameras!" We grabbed and dashed. "There's a moose right. . . it was right there!" A spot about 100-150 feet from their front door. Smack in the middle of a glitzy 100-plus unit condo development.
So we took off after Mr. Moose, aiming to shoot him (with cameras, of course). Preferably with telephoto lens. You never want to get too close to Mr. Moose. Mrs. Moose, either.
We chased that stupid, obstinately disappearing moose for the better part of an hour. Through the condo complex, over a few meadows, through a couple of parking lots. No moosie-moosie.
Instead, we found the local Sheriff. She'd been chasing Mr. Moose in her Sheriff's car for over an hour - since just about dawn. She parked at one point, opened her trunk, and pulled out some strange orange thing with vivid bold capitals, "LESS LETHAL." Don't want to know what that was, or what "less" lethal means, even in moosie-moosie terms.
She warned us to beware the moose, and call her if we spotted him. We were only interested in telephoto-range sightings, we assured Mademoiselle le Sheriff.
Never found Mr. Moose. Not a glimpse. Not finding Mr. Moose was very disappointing. Chasing Mr. Moose? Priceless.
Also breathless - high-altitude chase, you know. There's no way a human can outrun a moose, especially at 11,000 feet. He's used to it, and very well altitude-adjusted indeed. Humans end up oxygen-starved and panting. But it was fun anyway.
May your road rise to meet you - and may you catch up with your Mr. Moose!
Ann
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Thursday, May 3, 2012
On the Road Again - Despite Bad Weather!
"On the road again. . . just can't wait to get on the road again. . ." Back at it once more, living out of a suitcase. Alas, the weather is not cooperating to accomplish all I aimed to do.
What to do when weather interferes? Have a back up plan - and a too-long To Do List. Time to tackle chores: cleaned out a backlog of nearly 1,000 emails (oops!), used the hotel's granite desktop to shoot some studio-style staged photos (instead of photographing a gloomy, gusty beach), and more backlisted To-Do's.
Read another novel by Kelsey A. Campbell. She must be a fellow Road Warrior-ess! Topsy-Turvy: Kalimantan Tales is set in Indonesia - the "jungles of Borneo" actually - where Kelsey used to live. It's the story of the only working expat woman based in a hardship post in Indonesia. The name of the city (if you can call a place with 300,000 people and one traffic signal a "city") is Balikpapan, and in Bahasa Indonesia, that means "topsy-turvy." We Road Warrior-esses think we have it tough today. Dr. Diane Cameron, heroine of this story, thinks she's joining her fiance in romantic, photogenic Bali and winds up where water has to be boiled a full fifteen minutes before you can drink it, or make a cup of instant coffee. Fascinating tales of life in the back of beyond, where members of the resentful Bored Wives Club are spitting king cobras and coworkers sometimes prove to be kraits-in-the-bamboo.
Like the first novel of Kelsey's that I read, Make Me Beautiful (with some scenes set in one of my favorite hotels in the world, The Library Hotel in NYC), it's a fascinating tale of a powerful woman who roams the world.
So despite uncooperative weather, I'm getting a lot of things done. As one of the characters in Topsy-Turvy says, "I never let nothing stand in my way."
May your road rise up to meet you!
Best, Ann
What to do when weather interferes? Have a back up plan - and a too-long To Do List. Time to tackle chores: cleaned out a backlog of nearly 1,000 emails (oops!), used the hotel's granite desktop to shoot some studio-style staged photos (instead of photographing a gloomy, gusty beach), and more backlisted To-Do's.
Read another novel by Kelsey A. Campbell. She must be a fellow Road Warrior-ess! Topsy-Turvy: Kalimantan Tales is set in Indonesia - the "jungles of Borneo" actually - where Kelsey used to live. It's the story of the only working expat woman based in a hardship post in Indonesia. The name of the city (if you can call a place with 300,000 people and one traffic signal a "city") is Balikpapan, and in Bahasa Indonesia, that means "topsy-turvy." We Road Warrior-esses think we have it tough today. Dr. Diane Cameron, heroine of this story, thinks she's joining her fiance in romantic, photogenic Bali and winds up where water has to be boiled a full fifteen minutes before you can drink it, or make a cup of instant coffee. Fascinating tales of life in the back of beyond, where members of the resentful Bored Wives Club are spitting king cobras and coworkers sometimes prove to be kraits-in-the-bamboo.
Like the first novel of Kelsey's that I read, Make Me Beautiful (with some scenes set in one of my favorite hotels in the world, The Library Hotel in NYC), it's a fascinating tale of a powerful woman who roams the world.
So despite uncooperative weather, I'm getting a lot of things done. As one of the characters in Topsy-Turvy says, "I never let nothing stand in my way."
May your road rise up to meet you!
Best, Ann
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