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Tammie Dooley

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24th April 2009

I’m an explorer who happens to write and maintain a camera on my person at all times. Foreign travel is exotic but doesn't happen all that frequently so I've come to covet the American open road. Few things in our lives are as liberating, empowering, and rejuvenating as a solo road trip. Adventurous solo road trips have become a staple for me, and a curiosity. So I created a website to share them and inspire others to step out and give them a try.

Having ditched 18 years in the financial industry, I'm having the time of my life pursuing the importunate desire to write. My mission has become to 1)celebrate the adventurer in all of us 2) help others discover the lost art of solitude 3)encourage people to pry themselves from the easy chair & move one step out of their comfort zone and 4) explore the unknown for at least 2 nights away from home.

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  1. 18 Nov 2009

  2. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Mullinville, Kansas…A Favorite Wrong Turn

    Tumbleweeds the size of boulders streak past in all directions causing me to involuntarily close my eyes and make darts to the left or right behind the safety of the windshield."

  3. 16 Nov 2009

  4. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Road Trip Wyoming: Dubois…of Petroglyphs & Togwotee Pass

    With names like Wind River Gear, Stewarts Trap Line Gallery, Tukadeka Traders, and Whiskey Mountain Tackle you get the idea quickly Dubois is all about the outdoors with its own brand of rough and a unique version of western."

  5. 13 Nov 2009

  6. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post 13 Reasons for a Road Trip: A Pictorial

    The majority of my best photos that have been taken on road trips..."

  7. 11 Nov 2009

  8. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post L’heure Bleue “The Blue Hour”

    When my camera stopped clicking and my host broke the silence, she said “it’s the blue hour. Isn’t it something?” I thought I’d cry."

  9. 09 Nov 2009

  10. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post A Spoon In My Persimmon

    Before we talk about the persimmon seed as a harbinger of winter, I just want to know one thing: Who was the first person to open a persimmon seed? Okay, two things: WHY?!"

  11. 06 Nov 2009

  12. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Your Black & White Opinion

    On a recent road trip, this old warehouse was photographed. The sky was beautiful, the leaves made such a lovely carpet, the light was just right. Notice how it falls on the gate leaning against the fence."

  13. 04 Nov 2009

  14. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post The Annual Itch

    Just about the time we’re contemplating a jail break from the confines of our air-conditioned homes, the light and air begin signaling fall. The itch to wander off the beaten path starts gathering steam as the sun starts changing its slant on the Earth. O"

  15. 03 Nov 2009

  16. Tammie Dooley reviewed Oklahoma Road Trip: West Loop to Little Sahara/Anadarko in Oklahoma, United States

    This western circuitous route encompasses two of Oklahoma’s most surprising topographic wonders - the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge and Little Sahara S.P. The sea salt of The Great Salt Plains was deposited by an inland sea that once covere…"

  17. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Shutterfly vs. Snapfish

    For me, shooting digital has resulted in a screeching halt of printing. I’m guessing it’s the same for you. A local commercial color printer continues to print the captures I want to add to my portfolio, but those are laughingly rare."

  18. 23 Oct 2009

  19. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Will Hike for Nutella-Filled Waffle Sandwich

    “One waffle, please”, I croaked. Just two steps from the door to the counter, the guy running tiny Corbet’s Cabin barely looked up when I trudged in. Ruddy skin, chapped lips and wild eyes topped off by a black stocking hat, a bright orange bulky backpack"

  20. 21 Oct 2009

  21. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post The Fuzzy Slipper Travel Chronicles

    No one can say who started the whole travel-from-home-to-the-grandest-of-destinations idea (the first human that realized there was a continuance of land beyond the river’s bend, I’d guess). Henry David Thoreau wrote tomes about exploration, never venturi"

  22. 19 Sep 2009

  23. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post It’s Not About the Summit Anymore

    Conditioning for the Grand Teton summit bid has continued in Jackson, Wyoming. In the actual environment the climb will take place, my body aches from the intensity that cannot be duplicated in a gym. Here, I’m faced with the reality of what it is I’m att"

  24. 17 Sep 2009

  25. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post 46 To-Do’s in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

    There is something to be said for the delicious stride of habit’s familiarity. Some can’t fathom traveling to the same place twice; there is indeed a great deal to see in the world. But even among those with the most severe case of wanderlust, many have a"

  26. 15 Sep 2009

  27. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post From the Top

    It might as well have been the moon. Surreal to a degree that supports the possibility it didn’t happen at all, I’m suspended in a slow motion movie without sound. Maybe I dreamt it. A thick haze has spread its blanket and laid full claim to my reality to"

  28. 18 Aug 2009

  29. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Scandinavian Food Break!

    We interrupt the broadcasts about photography for a food break. There will be a Part III of the Now, What? series, but only after a discussion about what’s been haunting my dreams of late."

  30. 15 Aug 2009

  31. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Now What? Part III…the Finale

    We resume the regularly scheduled programming - specifically the last part of the series that began with the Rah Rah! article encouraging you to shoot with whatever camera you happen to have: Great Photos from Really Cheap Cameras."

  32. 13 Aug 2009

  33. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post The Grand Climb - 4 Weeks & Counting!!

    For my birthday this year, I asked to climb Grand Teton. I’ve been training now for 4 months. There’s lots of hissing going on in my household."

  34. 12 Aug 2009

  35. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post A Library of Soda Pop

    Pointy elbows and lowered hat bills greet soda pop aficionados at Arcadia Oklahoma’s POPS Soda Ranch on Route 66."

  36. 30 Jul 2009

  37. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Now What? Part II … Of Regret

    You read your manual, right? Okay, but you’re going to, right?"

  38. 28 Jul 2009

  39. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Now What? Part I

    Now that you’ve shaken off the cloak of darkness created by the “cheap camera myth” and are ready to either learn photography with the camera you have, or improve your current skill set, we can move forward."

  40. 22 Jul 2009

  41. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Great Photos from Really Cheap Cameras

    So you think you need an expensive camera to get good photographs? Crappy camera = crappy photos?"

  42. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post The Tetons from a Dog-Trot Cabin

    Standing in the breezeway of the settler’s dog-trot cabin, the sod roof sheds sandy sparks when the wind rises."

  43. 20 Jul 2009

  44. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Oklahoma Fried Potatoes & Rocket Science

    The hot powdery sands sift into every nook of my flip flop clad feet."

  45. 01 Jul 2009

  46. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post 7 Tips from a Photography Pro

    1. LIGHT….is the only thing you are taking a picture of; so make it your prime consideration; where is the light? how is it falling on your subject? What color is it? How hard is the light."

  47. 26 Jun 2009

  48. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Yellowstone National Park’s Original Entrance

    Yellowstone’s original entrance in Gardiner, Montana, and the only one open year-round, is framed by the Roosevelt Arch. While all the literature points out this entrance is the only one open all year, few state why."

  49. 12 Jun 2009

  50. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post The Enchanted Highway

    North Dakota’s Enchanted Highway is 32 miles of soaring, metal art sculpture that qualify as some of the largest in the world. They are as unusual as they are enjoyable, qualifying unequivocally as must-see Americana Road Art."

  51. 29 May 2009

  52. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post A Patriotic Drive - Mt. Rushmore and Beyond

    The grandeur of granite rising from the cliffs of Mt. Rushmore will in one upward glance sweep away any countryman’s negative sentiments. And impress the hell out of everyone else."

  53. 15 May 2009

  54. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post From Medora to Moorhead

    The desire to travel has no correlation with positive impressions despite the travel industry’s ardent efforts to convince us otherwise. I’m often moved to action by emotional responses that would have the experts gnashing their teeth (in which I happen t"

  55. 14 May 2009

  56. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post What the H*** Did You Do To My Quail!?

    As a kid I remember being told if we dug a tunnel through the earth, we’d come out in China."

  57. 13 May 2009

  58. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Of Rattlesnakes & The Geographic Center of the U.S.

    Clamoring on the steep incline under the weight of my heaviest film camera (reserved only for the most promising of discoveries), slipping twice to one knee on rime ice, I hitch one last gasp of frigid oxygen as my head lifts my eager eyes into..."

  59. 09 May 2009

  60. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post China, a Land of Faces

    Having returned from 4 weeks backpacking China with a thousand photographs, a large Moleskine filled with a multitude of entries and anecdotes, the story of it all is only now being synthesized by my brain."

  61. 05 May 2009

  62. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post China’s Interior

    “It seems to matter not the quality or amount of a night’s sleep. We are tired."

  63. 04 May 2009

  64. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Solo Road Trip Safety

    So you’re at least considering a SRT? Good! First, realize it’s not brain surgery. The logistics are simple, subjective, and subject to change - a beautiful thing."

  65. 01 May 2009

  66. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Treasures of the Dakota Plains

    Veering from Highway 385 onto 79, then onto the first unmarked road heading east, the Badlands are nowhere to be seen but the expansive Pine Ridge Indian Reservation offers enough gems to keep my camera clicking."

  67. 29 Apr 2009

  68. Tammie Dooley commented on Walk With Me to the Bar at the End of the World

    Wait! I forgot to log in. So here's the same comment, but with the commenter correctly identified! For breakfast I'd like one of each of the items you've described. the artichoke and hot dog have my taste buds really intrigued. Oh, and I loved the pi…"

  69. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Backpacking China — 4 weeks of Tan Suo

    I’d always imagined I’d see Morocco, or base camp at Mt. Everest way before I got down the list to China."

  70. 28 Apr 2009

  71. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Aces & Eights

    Walking around with thumbs hooked in my front belt loops makes it difficult to fire off shots. Camera shots of course."

  72. 27 Apr 2009

  73. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Late, for Nowhere in Particular

    Rolling down some back-road cloaked in the bliss of anonymity, one arm in contact with the wheel at the point that encourages my wrist to flop carefree at the end of it, head bobbling to a slow rhythmic beat that doesn’t match my rousing vocal accompanime"

  74. 24 Apr 2009

  75. Tammie Dooley wrote a blog post Taking a Solo Road Trip

    Articles on efficiency are prolific: how to cut a minute off some task, make your morning shower more efficient, and speed up this or that. And yet I know more discontented people than ever. When the pundits start messing with your morning shower..."

  76. 20 Nov 2007

  77. Tammie Dooley reviewed Temples of the Mogao Caves in Xinjiang/Northwest, China

    The heat sears my neck as I turn over my camera equipment at the heavily guarded checkpoint. No photos are allowed of what we're about to see.  Between the heat and my nakedness I lack the proper anticipation for what lies in the beehive of caves ah…"

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