Picture Thread

[bongo]

Crossing Hindu Kush, near Salang, highest point on the road at 3363 meter above sea level.

[Rommel2D]

The polution from the city was so bad in the 19th century, it was poluting their fresh water supply (Lake Michigan) and causing disease. So they reversed the flow of the river and sent the flow of pollution out of their watershed, across the state, and into the Mississippi river. Problem solved!

(It only took us in Milwaukee an extra century to pollute Michigan enough to cause disease...)

[bongo]

They have a river that float backwards?!?

Now *that's* something I'd like to see

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by bongo
Great pics from Chicago, makes me want to go there one day.

Not if snoop posts a picture of their backward river.
Then again, it's been 'beautified' so it might not look bad nowadays...

[bongo]

The mountains are terrific! Too bad you can't see them most of the time. The air around Kabul is quite literally full of ****. The electricity is unstable at best (on for about 4 hours per day I think) so people have to rely on their own generators, which of course pollute far more than an equally sized power plant would. Not to mention wood is scarse so the poor ones fuel their fires with dried manure...(imagine cooking on open fire with that...)

I think I have some pics on my other computer from a crossing of Hindu Kush, one of the bigger mountain ranges in the area.

[Grandpa Troll]

-minus the Warzone, and the fact I dont feel real comfortable in the world climate that maybe Americans might not be welcome, I would love to visit the mountains range

I would love to have an interpreter and just sit and listen to the locals tell of how they survive and how the fare day to day

GT

[bongo]

Great pics from Chicago, makes me want to go there one day.

Now a picture from my "Cities I rather *not* visit" list.




Today: Kabul
(Taken on a clear day by one of my sisters)

[Zoid]

Not much of a difference though...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Zoid
Ahh, scary man with camera. Must escape!

snoopy, where is that, Chicago?

Yes indeed.

I think JT didn't like the RedEye flash, thus why we had it turned off on the other pics

[Paddy]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Some pics of Thanksgiving, my sister and her 3 month old baby and I ...

awesome

congrats to your Sis

[Paddy]

Originally posted by Aqualung71
Would you trust this man to sell sweets to your children?

as long as they pay $$$ my accountant will smile...

[Zoid]

Ahh, scary man with camera. Must escape!

snoopy, where is that, Chicago?

[Heresson]

He must have heard that Nikolai shall be watching this pic and got scared...

[Nikolai]

I agree with Heresson. Very nice pics. And I liked the expression on the baby in the first pic.

[Heresson]

very nice pics, esp. the bridge and pier ones