Armchair travelling in the time of Covid

 

If you are like me, you have spent a fair bit of time getting to know your close surroundings VERY well in the past year. Luckily, Ted Trager has sent me on some armchair travelling. I don't even need to put petrol in the car. 

The stunning black and white images piqued my curiosity.  I haven't been to any of the places in the photographs.  Have you?

Dry Tortugas National Park is in the Gulf of Mexico, west of Key West, Florida. It comprises 7 islands, plus protected coral reefs. Garden Key is home to beaches and the 19th-century Fort Jefferson. Loggerhead Key has a lighthouse and sea turtles. On nearby Loggerhead Reef, the Windjammer Wreck, the remains of an 1875 ship, is a popular dive site. Bush Key is a nesting site for seabirds like sooty terns. 

Coral Castle is an oolite limestone structure created by the Latvian-American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin. It is located in unincorporated territory of Miami-Dade County, Florida, between the cities of Homestead and Leisure City.

                                                    

Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. The boulder covers 5,800 square feet of ground and is seven stories high.

Desert Christ Park is a 3.5-acre sculpture garden in Yucca Valley, California. The park was sculpted and created by Antone Martin, a former aircraft worker who died in 1961 at the age of 74. 

I'm not sure who this man is but there's something about the moustache that makes me think of one of my dastardly post-truth senators. But as I have never met Ted, it could be a self-portrait, a zoom portrait ... a bit of DKULT doodle therapy.

Happy New Year to you too, Ted.