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Go watch Planet Earth (again, I hope), buy some energy efficient light bulbs to replace all the bad ones you probably have around your house, take a shorter shower than usual, only flush the toilet when it needs it, recycle, and start planting a garden.
That's your to-do list for today, let me know if you do any. I'll be proud.

PS: If that's not really your style, then go smoke a bowl in the woods and appreciate the beauty of nature

Thanks new followers! I love all of you. Thanks for the faves and appreciating me
I invite you to criticize my photos, I love input.
I'm probably not gonna upload again for a least a couple weeks, I tend to let my camera fill up and procrastinate uploading 300 photos, weeding through them, and photoshopping the keepers... Anyway, glad you like my photos Enjoy.

-Ben

Holy hell, what a day! This has been my most successful upload yet! So many nice people out there, so much appreciation...
Thanks new watchers, old watchers, and everyone else that has ever faved one of my photos.
I wouldn't keep doing this without the positive reinforcement I get.

Hey all! So, over April vacation I went on a trip to the Pacific northwest (Washington/Oregon). For ten days, I drove around in a van filled with the luggage of 10 people and stayed in youth hostels and cheap motels while exploring the diverse land. We started in Seattle and took a dat to go to Mount rainier. Then we took a ferry across the Puget Sound to the Olympic Peninsula, drove to the Dungeness spit, styed in Forks (yeah, Twilight blah blah blah fuck you, there were girls on the trip), visited the Quileute reservation, went to Cape Flatterly, 1st beach, and Realto beach (all in the ssame general area). Then we went to the Hoh river valley and visited the temperate rainforest there (the only one in the US). Then we drove a hell of a long way through Aberdeen (Kurt Cobaine!) to Astoria, Washington. We did a bunch of Lewis and Clark history sightseeing. We went to Cannon Beach, and drove along the columbia river gorge. We stopped at Crown Point and Multnomah Falls, and ended up at the Carson hot springs where we all got much needed mineral baths and saunas. The next day we started slow and hung out in Hood River, but had to head back to Seattle. On the way we stopped at Mount Saint Helens, but it was cloudy and we could barely see it and we were in a rush. We got back to Seattle, stayed the night, and left the next morning.
It was the best trip I'd ever been on. The landscape was so different, I might as well have been in another country. As you're gonna see from the pictures I'll be uploading soon, it was incredibly beautiful there.

-Ben

Well, there you go. France, Maine, Newburyport, and everything in between. You have witnessed my summer in artistic photo form. Thanks, new watchers. Thanks old pals. Now I'm gonna have to start taking pictures of... the school? More sunsets?
At least now that I have my license, I can drive to cool places. I'm no longer limited to the places i can get to on my bike...