14 Responses to “Photo of the Day”

1. #1 |  Dave Krueger |  November 15th, 2011 at 8:49 am

   Wow! Did you take that from your hang glider?

2. #2 |  Dave Krueger |  November 15th, 2011 at 8:50 am

   And is that your house in the background?

3. #3 |  Michael Chaney |  November 15th, 2011 at 10:36 am

   Actually, that’s not the Natchez Trace Parkway. That is TN96 photographed to the east from the big bridge on the Natchez Trace Parkway.

   http://g.co/maps/8kssf

   If you drop the streetview on hwy 96, you can see the bridge (along with a truck being overtaken by the cam car) and if you drop the streetview on the parkway on the bridge you can see a lower quality version of Radley’s picture.

   Radley, your NTP pictures are great. There are some really nice views farther down at the water gap. There’s an overlook that is really spectacular, but I can’t find it right now. Anyway, it makes a great drive for a day, especially with a camera.

4. #4 |  crzybob |  November 15th, 2011 at 10:54 am

   What a beautiful and useful piece of publicly financed, engineered and constructed infrastructure that enriches us all!

5. #5 |  hank |  November 15th, 2011 at 11:12 am

   @crzybob – exactly. Yet another example of this libertarian site celebrating publicly financed projects. Hilarious.

6. #6 |  Radley Balko |  November 15th, 2011 at 11:19 am

   Really hope I never become the sort of person whose primary reaction to a photo like this one is to figure out how it validates my politics.

7. #7 |  celticdragonchick |  November 15th, 2011 at 11:30 am

   o/t

   A tactical unit with automatic weapons assaulted an anarchist/occupy group in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Sunday. Two credentialed press observers and a number of bystanders were also handcuffed and detained. The group was in a year-long empty car dealership (that was condemned by the city on Monday, btw). Police justified using a tactical team by saying they found “riot literature” including instructions on how to tip a police car…that could have endangered first responders.

   Gotta love that dangerous “riot literature”.
   http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/15/2776638/chapel-hill-officials-defend-tactics.html

   http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/11/15/2776638/chapel-hill-officials-defend-tactics.html

8. #8 |  celticdragonchick |  November 15th, 2011 at 11:33 am

   Really hope I never become the sort of person whose primary reaction to a photo like this one is to figure out how it validates my politics.

   Agree completely.

   I was able to see a stunning view from the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC a couple of weeks ago at the height of fall color. One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

9. #9 |  Michael Chaney |  November 15th, 2011 at 1:28 pm

   The Natchez Trace Parkway is a very nice national park that is also quite unique in being a “linear” experience. You can drive for miles and feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere even when there are roads all around.

   There are no extravagances in the park – the closest thing would be that bridge. But the bridge is either going to be there or there’s going to be a long, winding road back up the side. The bridge itself was designed with the rationale that putting up anything less would detract from the natural beauty of the area. There is nothing else like it in the entire park.

   Quite frankly, as a libertarian this is exactly what I like to see my tax money building – something useful, beautiful, and lasting that would never have been built with private money. My grandchildren will cross that bridge and enjoy it as I have. The bridge cost $11.3M to build, or 1/400th what we paid for “cash for clunkers”.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace_Parkway_Bridge

10. #10 |  Joshua |  November 15th, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Sorry for the thread hijack, but that seems to be the norm around here:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/10/us-crime-wife-idUSTRE7A96DY20111110

    This is quite an incredible and frightening conviction.

11. #11 |  Lucy Steigerwald |  November 15th, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    Seriously Radley, can you fly? I do not understand how this lovely photo happened.

12. #12 |  Radley Balko |  November 15th, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    Jet pack!

    Or possibly a bridge.

13. #13 |  Ray |  November 15th, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    Beautiful. My hometown is up on the Ohio river and get pretty homesick this time of year.

    Radley, you ever get up to the twin lakes, Barkley and Kentucky?

14. #14 |  Daniel |  November 16th, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    That’s a great stretch of road. I love how the trees cover the highway and it feels like you are driving through a tunnel down by Mississippi.

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