Re: terrorist/tourist photography

Mark E. Bye wrote:

> 
>>A couple of years after 9/11 here in the US, a friend and I were on a
>>road trip out east.  We were going to be in the vicinity of the first
>>nuclear powerplant to come online in this country back in the
>>Atomic-A-Go-Go 1950s. Geeks that we are, we wanted to do a driveby
>>because of its tech-history content.  We stopped and took some photos
>>(from outside the fence).  Nothing untoward resulted, but it was only as
>>we were leaving that we realized that we could've stirred up some fairly
>>unpleasant stuff without intending to; that was kind of a shared d'oh!
>>moment.
> 
> A couple years ago, my wife and I took a little road trip to Niagara
> Falls.  En route, we stopped off in Dearborn, Michigan because she'd
never
> seen the Henry Ford Museum.  As we were driving around looking for a
place
> to dine that evening, I drove up to the Ford World Headquarters and
> thought it would be neat to have a shot of the building.  Althought I
got
> my shot, I also got quickly chased away by security.

That's what I'm talkin' about.  :)

I visited Greenfield Village for the first time in 50 years on that same
road trip.  Got there late, made the rounds of the Village, but didn't
have time for the museum.  That was a bummer.


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