{"id":590,"date":"2023-03-24T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T22:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2023-03-24T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T22:26:16","slug":"tda-3-25-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"TDA 3\/25\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was just doing maintenance on my website and realized I haven\u2019t posted anything in forever. The winter is a hard time for me as it is harder work harder driving and less opportunity to take pictures and less motivation to write. I\u2019ll try to catch you up. I have been driving all over the western us dodging storms and sometimes driving in horrible conditions. The last couple of months have been hectic. I took a fairly long time off over Christmas and then weather kept me out for a bit longer. Winter and the cold weather make it hard to get enthusiastic about taking pictures and writing. Most days the best I could manage is get up and work. I did manage to take a few pictures since I started back after the first of the year.\u00a0 They may seem a little random but I have been traveling around the west and snapping when I see something that catches my eye. I spent most of the last few weeks working in the southwest where I find more inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is where the year started, in a major snow storm. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eastern WA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The 10 minutes of sun I saw this week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eastern WA the evening before a storm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eastern WA the next morning storm arriving.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On my way to TX stuck at base of Raton Pass, 8″ of snow. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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From 8″ snow to 70 degrees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On my next trip out I spent most of my time in the desert southwest one of my favorite areas to travel in. I made a number of loads from copper mines to various plants that turn copper into products. I really like hauling copper it is easy to deal with and great people both at the shippers and receivers. The geology around mines is fantastic. The copper sheets I was carrying are called cathodes and they are created by electrolysis. The have an amazing texture and are really cool to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Area near copper mine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Malacite, copper ore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Surface of cathode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Edge of a stack of copper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My “sunny” vacation day in Eloy, AZ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Morning after the storm. Eloy, Az<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New Mexico sunrise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just doing maintenance on my website and realized I haven\u2019t posted anything in forever. The winter is a hard time for me as it is harder work harder driving and less opportunity to take pictures and less motivation to write. I\u2019ll try to catch you up. I have been driving all over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tda","tag-truck-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}