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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 10/09/2026

Beautiful #Motorcycle #Motosky but... "Pricing has yet to be announced, but something in excess of the AMB 001’s $100,000 starting price seems likely." Ouch

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 14/08/2026

That's what #Motorcycle riding is all about :-)

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 13/08/2026

Medicine Hat, Alberta. Out on the plains the sky does about 80 percent of the work and the ground just holds it up. Homeward leg of the Route 66 ride – gandalfddi.github.io... #Motorcycle #Motosky #Nature #Photography #Canada #Alberta

Wide view across the Alberta prairie near Medicine Hat. The upper three quarters of the frame is deep blue sky filled with scattered white cumulus clouds, large and billowing overhead, shrinking toward a flat horizon. Below, pale gold and green grassland stretches to distant low bluffs, broken by a windbreak row of dark green poplars, scattered power poles, a fence line, and a small cluster of buildings and a highway off to the left.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 09/08/2026

New memes are up. My favorite of the batch. The last line is just true as opposed to other cognitive tests politicians advertise... The latest page: gandalfddi.github.io... #Motorcycle #Motosky #memes #ridingafter40

Photo meme. A gray-bearded man with tattooed arms, sunglasses, and a trucker cap sits on a vintage scrambler-style motorcycle on a gravel road, a skateboard bungeed to the rear luggage rack. The bike and rider are mirrored in a puddle in the foreground. Text at top reads: "At 25 riding proves you're brave. At 45 it proves the kids moved out. At 65 it's the only cognitive test you can't cheat on."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 08/08/2026

Oʻahu's south shore Lānaʻi Lookout / Hālona stretch of Kalanianaʻole Hwy – blue ocean, bluer cove, and a cliff edge that does not care how close you stand. January 2025 #Nature #Photography #Hawaii #Oahu

Rugged tan and brown volcanic sea cliffs, Lānaʻi Lookout, on the southeast coast of Oʻahu, viewed from above. Deep blue open ocean fills the left half of the frame, with whitecaps breaking against black lava rock at the base of the cliffs. A sheltered cove of bright turquoise water sits at center-right, where three small figures stand on the rocks at the water's edge. Blue sky with scattered white clouds above a flat horizon.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/08/2026

Two new pages on the #SpaceHistory #SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceFlight archive. The first is OMI V1202 - the Main Propulsion helium signature test. Seal the aft, pressurize everything with helium, and measure what leaks. The aft compartment IS the instrument. See:

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OMI V1202 - The Main Propulsion Helium Signature Test

What the Space Shuttle V1202 Helium Signature Test was, how a preop, test and postop actually worked at KSC, and the voice tapes I recorded working it.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 03/08/2026

Little Si, 26 January 2019. Valley fog still holding below the ridgeline, contrail overhead, boot in frame for scale. The Cascades give you maybe a dozen mornings like this between November and March, and this was one of them. #PNW winter hiking is 90% mud and 10% this. #Nature #Photography

Wide panorama from a rocky viewpoint on Little Si near North Bend, Washington, taken on a clear winter morning. Forested ridges of Douglas fir slope down from the left and right toward a valley in the center, where a low layer of fog sits below a snow-dusted peak on the horizon. The sky is deep blue with thin high cirrus and a bright contrail crossing the upper right. Scrubby pines, bare branches and lichen-covered rock fill the foreground. The toe of a hiking boot is visible in the bottom left corner.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 01/08/2026

International Childfree Day. Some people pass down a bloodline. I'm passing down a Shuttle archive, a pile of #Motorcycle trip reports and a motorcycle playlist. Gene pool ends with me. The documentation does not. #Motosky

A grey-haired, bearded man in his sixties stands in a sunlit driveway beside a black 100 year Anniversary Harley-Davidson Heritage with chrome trim, a tall clear windshield and studded leather saddlebags. He is wearing a full one-piece-look set of olive/hi-viz yellow-green armoured motorcycle gear - jacket and overpants with reflective bands on the arms, enamel pins on the chest - plus black riding boots, one hand resting on the handlebar. Behind him is a pale green house with an open garage door. White handwritten-style text on the right side of the image reads: "All the Gear. All the Noise. All the Miles. Gene Pool Ends With Me."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 01/08/2026

On my Kayak, Cottage Lake Washington. Until 1979 this was Norm's Resort - swimming, picnics, a bait shop with a sign reading "Norm's Got Worms." Seattle people drove out here for the weekend. Now it is ringed with 3,000+ sq ft houses and private docks. Progress, allegedly. #Nature #Photography #PNW

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 28/07/2026

True happiness: a bike, a full tank, and the open road. Oregon 205 south of Frenchglen, 1 June 2019. Past the Steens Loop turnoff, weather stacking up over the mountain, and about forty miles of nothing between me and it. The open road of the western United States #Motorcycle #Motosky #Oregon

Rider's-eye view over a motorcycle windscreen. A two-lane asphalt road with a yellow centre line runs dead straight to a vanishing point on the horizon, through flat high-desert sagebrush. A low green-brown ridge with exposed rock rises on the right; power poles march away on the left. Ahead, a large grey storm cloud spreads across an otherwise bright blue sky, with rain visible falling in the distance. The bike's dark fairing and mirror occupy the lower right corner. Overlaid text in black script reads: "True Happiness ... A Bike, A Full Tank and the Open Road."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 27/07/2026

NASA has been quietly taking Shuttle documentation offline. The Columbia STS-107 FMEA/CIL files aren't even on the Wayback Machine. 11 years on MPS/SSME at KSC. I kept copies. 2,004 documents and launch voice tapes, public: gandalfddi.github.io/shuttle.html #SpaceShuttle #NASA #SpaceHistory #Space

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Space Shuttle Information (and Misc)

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 23/07/2026

New Meme's (with a side of snark) posted, bottom of the page: gandalfddi.github.io... My favorite #Motorcycle #Motosky meme of the batch:

Black and white photo of an empty two-lane road with a motorcycle off in the distance stretching to the horizon through dark desert scrubland at night. Text reads: Never Be Afraid To Slow Down. The Road Isn't Going Anywhere

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 22/07/2026

Langlois Lake by kayak this afternoon – low-to-mid-90s (33C) on shore but the good kind of hot once you're on the water. A little hazy, courtesy of #Canada forests arriving by air (best of luck for our neighbors up north, hopefully rain soon). Glass-flat and quiet. #Nature #Photography #PNW

View from a kayak on a calm lake. Pale, slightly hazy blue sky over forested shorelines of conifers and leafy green trees, both banks mirrored almost perfectly in the glassy water. Weathered grey driftwood logs line the near-left shore and a grassy bank on the right. A red camp chair and small boats sit on the far shore. The blue bow of the kayak enters the frame at lower left.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 20/07/2026

Bay of Martyrs, Great Ocean Road, Victoria. January 2026. The name isn't poetic license - local history holds that settlers drove Girai wurrung people from these cliffs in the 1840s. Beautiful and brutal in the same frame. #Nature #Photography #Australia

Wide panoramic view of the Bay of Martyrs on Australia's Great Ocean Road under a deep blue sky. Turquoise and dark blue ocean fills the frame, with lines of white breakers rolling into a curved sandy beach on the right. Golden limestone cliffs frame both sides of the bay, and a small flat-topped limestone island stack sits offshore. The foreground is dense low coastal scrub in silvery green, with a patch of weathered driftwood on the cliff edge. Distant headlands fade into haze along the horizon.

Bay of Martyrs is on the Great Ocean Road near Peterborough, Victoria, part of the Bay of Islands Coastal Park. The name (along with nearby Massacre Bay and Massacre Hill) is tied to local accounts that European settlers in the 1840s drove Girai wurrung (Kirrae Whurrong) people off these cliffs to their deaths during the violent dispossession of the Western District. There's no surviving written record of the specific event – which is itself part of the story

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 19/07/2026

Throwback: July 2014, my first bike – the 2000 Triumph Sprint – with buddy Bill and his Ducati Diavel at the Y where SR 123 meets Chinook Pass. Decision point: over the pass or down toward Rainier. Either answer is correct. #Motorcycle #Motosky #PNW #ChinookPass

Two motorcycles parked on wide asphalt at the SR 123 / Chinook Pass (Hwy 410) junction in Washington's Cascades. On the left, a red 2000 Triumph Sprint sport-tourer with matching red panniers and a black helmet resting on the seat. On the right, a rider in white-and-black Dainese leathers sits on a black Ducati Diavel with a red trellis frame, checking his phone. Behind them the two-lane highway curves uphill past a rocky cut bank, with evergreen forest and hazy blue mountain ridges under a partly cloudy summer sky. Two other motorcycles are approaching down the road in the distance.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 17/07/2026

Updated my trip planning & trip equipment pages for #Motocycle #Motosky trips (nothing fancy, I write my HTML in Notepad): gandalfddi.github.io... gandalfddi.github.io...

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 14/07/2026

Denali Park Road, Mile 9, July 2024. Fireweed in bloom, spruce over open taiga, and that faint white mass on the right horizon is Denali itself – 70 miles out and cloud-free for once. The mountain makes its own weather; roughly 1 in 3 visitors ever sees the summit. We got lucky. #Nature #Photography

Panorama from Denali Park Road: pink fireweed and low shrubs in the foreground, scattered spruce trees across open taiga, the Alaska Range foothills under a clear blue sky, and the faint snow-covered peak of Denali visible in the far distance on the right.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/07/2026

@thomaspaineha.bsky.social @apocalypsecarousel.bsky.social Here are actual quotes that align with what your meme is shooting for:

Four portraits – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Thomas Paine, and James Madison – each with two quotes on religion and government.

Jefferson: 'It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.' – Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785.
'In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.' – letter to Horatio Spafford, 1814.

Adams: 'These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses' with no pretence of divine inspiration. – Defence of the Constitutions, 1787.
'The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.' – Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11, 1797.

Paine: 'My own mind is my own church.' – The Age of Reason, 1794.
'All national institutions of churches ... appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.' – The Age of Reason, 1794.

Madison: 'During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? ... pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.' – Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785.
'Strongly guarded ... is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States.' – Detached Memoranda, ca. 1820.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 04/07/2026

Columbia River from the Wild Horse Monument overlook, looking upstream past Vantage. The climb up the trail is loose gravel and regret, but the view is why you do it anyway. October light on channeled scabland - the Missoula Floods did good work here. October 2024 #Motorcycle #Motosky

Wide view of the Columbia River from high on the Wild Horse Monument bluff near Vantage, Washington. The deep blue river curves through a gorge of layered basalt cliffs and golden dry-grass hills under a bright blue sky streaked with rippled clouds. Dark volcanic rock outcrops and sagebrush cover the slope in the foreground, dropping steeply to the water.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 29/06/2026

Toklat River, Denali Park Road, July 2024. This is what a glacial river does when nobody makes it choose a lane ... braided channels wandering across a gravel bed wide enough to lose a bus in. Every spring melt the river redraws the map, and the road crew gets to find out where it went this time.

Wide braided glacial river crossing a gravel floodplain in Denali National Park. Multiple shallow channels of grey, silt-laden meltwater weave between exposed gravel and cobble bars. Green willow and shrub line both banks, giving way to rolling tundra hills and the darker peaks of the Alaska Range foothills under a heavy overcast sky. A metal viewing-platform railing is visible at lower left, with an eroded cut bank on the right.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 26/06/2026

#Motorcycle #Motosky trip from Anacortes Washington to Hoh Rainforest & back home. A couple of ferry rides, blue sky & nice weather. View from Washington Park in Anacortes: gandalfddi.github.io...

A rocky shoreline in Washington Park, Anacortes, with rugged stone formations in the foreground leading down to a calm blue bay. Evergreen forest lines the curving coastline under a clear, bright blue sky on a sunny day.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 21/06/2026

Latest Meme's added #Motorcycle #Motosky : gandalfddi.github.io...

A black‑and‑white photo of a rider on a vintage‑style motorcycle cruising down a suburban street. The rider wears a helmet, sunglasses, gloves, a leather jacket, jeans, and boots, with one hand raised in a casual gesture. The motorcycle’s tank has “HARRY” painted on it. Overlaid text reads: “Retirement means I have time to do whatever I want - mostly riding past people who are in meetings.”

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 18/06/2026

Riding the edge of Hells Canyon, July 2023 - deeper than the Grand Canyon and twice as wild. Nothing but heat, horizon, and a Harley 2005 Road King that never complains. #Motorcycle #Motosky #Harley #Nature #Photography www.fs.usda.gov/r06/...

A fully loaded cruiser motorcycle parked on a roadside pullout overlooking Hells Canyon. Saddlebags and camping gear are strapped to the rear seat. The background shows rugged, steep canyon walls with patches of green vegetation under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 05/06/2026

May 14, 2020 — Astoria–Megler Bridge viewed from the pullout south of the Columbia River, watching a weather front sweep across the span: www.bing.com/maps/se...

A wide coastal panorama showing the Astoria–Megler Bridge in the distance under a dramatic sky. Dark storm clouds move across the river toward the bridge while lighter sky remains to the left. The foreground includes a grassy pullout area bordered by a chain‑link fence, with trees framing both sides of the image and low landmasses visible across the water.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 31/05/2026

Oahu Sunset Beach Park January 2025 #Nature #Photography www.hawaiiyeah.com/o...

Sandy beach in the foreground, palm trees to the left and right, the pacific ocean stretches out in front of you with blue skies and a few clouds up above

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 29/05/2026

1/ On #Anthropic and #Mythos: the capability claims appear real. The "too dangerous to release" framing is PR doing double duty as safety posture. Both can be true simultaneously. We've seen this movie before — GPT-2, 2019. Hold both reads at once. My 🧵

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 27/05/2026

Grand View Point Overlook in Canyonlands National Park Once the pavement ends, you stand over 6,000 feet up staring at a rugged, vast wilderness carved by the Colorado and Green Rivers that completely steals your breath away: gandalfddi.github.io... #Motorcycle #Motosky #Nature #Photogtaphy #NPS

A wide panoramic vista of deep canyon gorges and towering red rock cliffs under a bright blue sky with wispy white clouds at Grand View Point in Canyonlands National Park.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 25/05/2026

Trip from Seattle area to Coeur d'Alene and Palouse Scenic Byway. Side trip to around Lake Pend Oreille and along Priest River. Had a Rocky Mountain Oyster Sandwich, a regional "delicacy" (in the opinion of some): gandalfddi.github.io... #Motorcycle #Motosky #Harley

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 24/05/2026

New #Motorcycle #Motosky memes up: gandalfddi.github.io/motorcycle_m... My favorite of this batch, staring into reality & thinking about what is important in this short time we exist on this planet

Two people on the right side with their motorcycle on the left outlined by the ocean and sky with the sun setting over the ocean

You will die, you are not special, the people who hurt you will probably never apologize, hard work doesn't always pay off, love is not always returned, and the universe is not arranging itself around your story.

Your Motorcycle will always love you. GO RIDE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!!

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 16/05/2026

Rode my #Motorcycle #Motosky to Palouse Falls, May 11, 2026. If you visit you have to go in the spring because the falls dry up later. 2ish miles of hard pack / gravel. Didn't drop the bike :-). #Nature #Photography parks.wa.gov/find-pa...

Palouse Falls is in the middle of the picture, the canyon and the canyon walls it carved out is to the left and right front, a pool of water is in the center of the picture with the Palouse River exiting to the right of the picture. Blue skies up above with sun rays coming down. High Plateau is in the upper middle of the picture

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 02/05/2026

I heard that Grok will be integrated into the Pentagon's military network. SpaceX probably uses Grok for decision making. Long discussion with Grok about having to reframe the question multiple times to get a correct answer. My assessment is, in the end, someone will die.

grok.com

Clarifying Trump’s First-Year Record Claims | Shared Grok Conversation

Unfortunately someone is going to die. Should additional decision making loops been performed? Yes.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 01/05/2026

Northern Coast of #Scotland, August 2014 — somewhere along the Assynt coast, where the heather drops straight into turquoise water. One of those places that stays with you long after the road trip ends. #Nature #Photography

A small turquoise bay on Scotland’s northern coast, surrounded by steep rocky hills covered in green ferns and heather. A narrow strip of white sand curves around the inlet, and a single boat is anchored offshore. The scene feels remote and rugged, with cliffs and cloudy skies in the distance.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 30/04/2026

Pulled over in the Snoqualmie Valley. Cascades on the horizon, pasture in front, bike still warm. Some views earn the stop. 🏍️ #Motorcycle #Mototsky #Nature #Photography

First-person view from a stopped motorcycle on a rural road. The rider's shadow stretches across the asphalt in the foreground; the bike's right mirror, handlebar, and windscreen are visible at the edge of the frame. Beyond the road, a wide green pasture extends to a cluster of red and white barns and farmhouses. Snow-capped Cascade mountains rise on the horizon under a clear blue sky. Overlaid text reads: "My Soul Connects To Nature As Though It Has Come Home Again."

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 28/04/2026

CO-129 northbound #Motorcycle #Motosky out of #Colorado — high desert, sagebrush, and a sky that goes all the way down to the ground. Vast open plains. The Hermetic texts were written for exactly this kind of road. #Nature #Photography

Rider's-eye view from a motorcycle on a two-lane highway through high desert plains, Colorado Highway 129 heading north. Dry sagebrush flatlands stretch to distant mesas under a deep blue sky with scattered cumulus clouds. Overlaid text reads: "As above, So below, As within, So without, As the universe, So the soul" – Hermes Trismegistus.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 26/04/2026

On the Seattle Waterfront today Bluebird morning at Seattle's new Overlook Walk. Looking northwest over Pier 62 across Elliott Bay to the Olympics, with a Pier 66 cruise ship just out of frame. #Nature #Photography www.bing.com/maps?cp...

Elevated view from a curved concrete plaza on Seattle's waterfront on a bright sunny morning. A long pier extends into the calm blue water of Elliott Bay with people walking along it. Snow-capped Olympic Mountains line the horizon across the bay with pure blue skies up above. A cruise ship is visible at the right edge of the frame. In the foreground, a man in a gray sweater and beige cap sits on a wooden bench looking at his phone. Stainless steel cable railings border the plaza.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 24/04/2026

Quicksand Cove, Aialik Bay, Kenai Fjords National Park, #Alaska — July 28, 2024. Panoramic view toward the Kenai Mountains. Low stratus on the ridgeline; residual summer snow streaks the darker rock faces above the tree-line-free green talus slopes. #Nature #Photography www.bing.com/maps?cp=59.8...

Panorama from a boat in Quicksand Cove, Alaska, looking toward snow-streaked coastal mountains under heavy overcast, calm water, boat wake lower left.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 21/04/2026

Bow River near Banff, Alberta — July 2025. That color isn't a filter. Glacial meltwater does that. Part of my #Route66 → #Canada #Motorcycle ride. Full writeup and route: gandalfddi.z19.web.c... #Motosky #Banff #Alberta

Panoramic view of the Bow River near Banff, Alberta. Glacial meltwater renders the river a vivid turquoise-green. Rocky foreground shoreline with sparse grasses and young conifers frame both edges. Dense spruce and fir forest lines the far bank, rising to bare-rock Rocky Mountain peaks under a deep blue summer sky.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 17/04/2026

Mt Rainier, October 2025. Just above the Paradise Parking Lot. #PNW #Nature #Photography

Rock and scrub plants in front, hills to the left, trees and a valley slope down to the right, Mt Rainier rises up in front of you with bright blue sky up above

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 14/04/2026

#Motorcycle #Motosky Trip in the Western United States, travelling down #Nevada 305 south #Nature #Photography The trip on June 2, 2019: gandalfddi.z19.web.c...

The road in front with a motorcycle windshield a vast semiarid region to the left and right with scrub brush, Mountains off in the distance with snow capped peaks. No cars or people in sight

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 12/04/2026

Mojave Desert June 2025. Vast landscape of nothing. So peaceful. #Motorcycle #Motosky #Route66 #Nature #Photography From my Route 66 ride: gandalfddi.z19.web.c...

Desert with scrub brush going off into the distance, mountains FAR off in the distance, blue skies up above

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 11/04/2026

#Australia Wineglass Bay January 2026 Not too hard of a hike, 6 miles & 1,200 foot elevation gain: www.alltrails.com/tr...

Rock ledge in front, Valley in the middle going down to Wineglass Bay, hills on both sides with scrub brush, mountains off in the distance with blue skies up above

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 09/04/2026

Even the EFF has given up on Twitter. Classed pretty much in the same bucket as Truth Social.

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 09/04/2026

Blue Lake September 2020, #PNW #Nature #Photography Nice hike, 4.4 miles round trip, 1000 ft elevation gain. Check to make sure Route 20 is open: www.wta.org/go-hikin...

Trees to the left & right, a dry creek straight in front mountains with snow off in the distance with grey cloudy skies up above

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 06/04/2026

Uploaded BUNCH of #NASA #SpaceShuttle #Shuttle clipart from the 1990's. Converted from Superpaint, MacDraw, Etc.. Credit to William Harwood (William Harwood) that created a bunch of these, don't remember how I got the others: gandalfddi.z19.web.c... Google Drive: drive.google.com/dri...

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Ken Hollis @gandalfddi.github.io · 05/04/2026

A #Snoqualmie #PNW #Motorcycle #Motosky Ride, Ben Howard Road near Monroe, snow topped mounts in the distance #Nature #Photography

Motorcycle mirror and windscreen at the bottom, Ben Howard road to the right, farm fields & a small hill to the left, in the distance the snow covered Cascade Range mountains with blue skies up above

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