Back on Sunday, October 18th, Ian and I took a little roadtrip, intending to take some photos of the falls colors in and around Ian's hometown of East Liverpool.

East Liverpool has a certain significance for me, at least as far as roadtrips go, because it was the destination of the first real "roadtrip" I ever attempted, in order to get some photographs for a school project. That was back before I even had a digital camera.

Ian and I set out, but unfortunately it was cloudier than forecast, and the leaves still seemed pretty green overall. I suggested a detour to Pittsburgh to give the clouds some time to clear. It also gave me a chance to check on something at IKEA I wanted to see, and I wanted to show Ian the view of downtown from Mt. Washington. Fortunately the clouds had started to clear by then, and getting in to downtown was particularly easy since the Steelers were playing the Browns at Heinz Field at the time:


I really love the view from Grandview Avenue, it's really unique to be standing on the ground, at a point higher than most of the buildings, but so close by:




After that we drove to East Liverpool, had chili dogs at the Hot Dog Shoppe, and then went looking around for things to photograph, but we kind of struck out. Ian didn't seem real satisfied with anything. For example, Ian wanted to visit a cemetery that sat up on a hill and had a good view of the valley below - only now there's a Wal-Mart in the valley.

I did get a cool picture of the sunset and the leaves in Beaver Creek State Park:


I thought it was a pretty cool trip, but truthfully I'm not sure Ian would agree, he seemed pretty disappointed. Still, it was good to spend time with him. I saw him once more a few days later but he's completely dropped off the radar again since then.

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