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Reactivated with a visit to the Grand Canyon

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[ VIDEO ] I'm reactivating this blog for a limited time. I will consider this my physical "videoblog" and mostly for creative purposes. Today I want to share my visit to the Grand Canyon back in July 2016. My first visit there was as a child in 1989 and this is the first time I visited via a tour bus. An amazing highlight after paying my second visit to Las Vegas before that also. I shot video and photos on my iPhone 6 utilizing an olloclip lens taking both wide-angle and fish-eye shots. Edited the video using iMovie and had to utilize Cooper Black for any video titles here. I want to share with you a shorter version that I shared on It's My Mind just last year actually. [ VIDEO ] If you like what you see subscribe to lbj79us ! And to Levois J where I actually have 50 subscribers

Passing through Albuquerque, NM on Amtrak

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[ VIDEO ] After arriving at Flagstaff, Arizona upon leaving the Grand Canyon we leave Flagstaff on the way back to Chicago. Had a long layover in Albuquerque, New Mexico on the way back to Chicago. I shot this video in July 2016.

Rain outside of train - Campaign, IL

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You can barely make it out, however, we're looking at Champaign, Illinois early in the morning while coming home aboard Amtrak's City of New Orleans. Sometimes I like it when the train goes through rain and as of late it seems a train I'm on always goes through rain. Even going to Los Angeles two years ago did my train run into some rain on the way to California!

How to travel

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A meme I found on Instagram . If you want to go somewhere find a way. It could be through a job or just your own hustle. Life's too short to just stay in one place and not see what else is out there!

Belle Isle - Detroit

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Last month I was in Detroit, Michigan for a family reunion. Another part of the family tree on this day had a cookout on Belle Isle right in the middle of the Detroit River. Only the second time I have visited this island park and this illustrious and hopefully rebounding city. I noticed Michigan State Police patrolling the grounds as the park itself has been leased to the State of Michigan. Probably a sign of the state of finances in Detroit as it had been administered as a city park. BTW, I just really had to use this snapchat filter!