Two and a half years. In to the half million kms club! (300k miles)

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Any Speeding or other fines in 500,000km ?
 
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Unfortunately yes. One speeding infraction. I was caught doing 110 km/h in a 90 zone. I was going down a grade and i gathered a bit too much speed. Our trucks are governed to 105 per law but you can easily surpass that going down a grade. Cops are quite strict with truck speeds. Still, a $ 190 fine and one point to my record. Aside of that glitch, touch wood, all good.
 
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Congrats on the mlestone. I traveled extensively for work between 1999-2012, mostly by air to the closest airport, then rental van to location as I would have my equipment shipped. I saw 46 states during my employ.
In the summer of 2007, the two other photographers with my division were both on medical leave so I had to carry the workload for the agency- I logged 17k miles in my Jeep Cherokee between June-September. The work took me as far north as Maine, Alabama to the south, and as far west as Los Angeles with week long location stops in between. I mapped the trip out well to hit all the locations there and back in a single summer.
As you said, the vistas were the most memorable part- yes I went through some horribly boring landscape (sorry Texas and Nebraska), but I vividly remember coming around a long bend at dawn, somewhere on the way to Huntsville Alabama, with the sun cresting over a small lake- it was mesmerizing and I felt like I was floating- time stopped, it took my breathe away. It's a vision that is burned into my brain.
 
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I had this one strapped to my wrist for the occasion..

You should have that spot on your wrist checked.
I noticed such a mark on my sister's wrist and convinced her to see a doctor. it turned out to be a skin cancer. They had to cut away quite a bit of flesh to get it all.
If you drive on the right side of the road then the left wrist gets a lot of sun. That much UV can cause skin cancer.
 
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We miss the pictures!
 
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We miss the pictures!

I was about to ask, more pictures of your travels please!
 
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We miss the pictures!
True, I haven't been very keen on those. My iPhone isn't the best for those and my venerable Nikon D5000 gave up the ghost. I need another camera!
 
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I was about to ask, more pictures of your travels please!
However, I do have quite a few "unpublished" ones that await..I became quite lazy after those long trips to process them.