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| White Rock Lake |
There aren’t too many times that I actually go
to downtown Dallas, but I do end up in ‘North Dallas’ rather frequently.
Although ‘North Dallas’ used to be thought of as just north of downtown, the
area has grown to include the area all along Central Expressway. However, this
visit took me to a spot very near White Rock Lake. Although I’ve never been
there at night, many people have reported offering a young woman who is
dripping wet a ride to her home on Gaston Avenue. When they get to the house,
the woman has disappeared, leaving the car seat covered in water. The ‘Lady of
White Rock Lake’ was drowned during a boating accident in the 1930s.
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| Diamond Head in the Vog |
Out and about in the morning, we were surprised
at the amount of fog that was covering the mountains. We were also surprised
that our eyes itched and noses burned. It’s not the fog but the vog. Vog is a form of air
pollution that results when sunlight hits a mixture of oxygen, moisture, and
the effluvia, namely sulfur dioxide, other gases and particles from an erupting
volcano. The culprit in this case is Kīlauea on the Island of Hawaiʻi, with the
prevailing winds sending vog across to O’hau. We shouldn’t have been too
surprised that we would get some interactions since the Hawaiian Islands are
continuously formed from volcanic activity at a hotspot. As
the Pacific Plate moves to the northwest, the hotspot remains stationary,
slowly creating new volcanoes; the only active volcanoes are located around the
southern half of the Island of Hawai’i. The newest volcano, Lōʻihi Seamount, is
near the south coast.
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| Tower Bridge |
There are always odd and unrelated occurrences
on trips. This blog is composed of images that I didn’t fit in anywhere else.
For instance, we saw the Tower Bridge and once again did not make the stroll
across. We did, however, walk across the new Millennium Bridge from the Tate
Gallery of Modern Art to St. Paul’s Cathedral.
