Photos

Bob's Photos

Here I'm presenting a somewhat eclectic mix of photos, most of them shamelessly self-serving. I have well over a thousand photos, so I'll rotate these from time to time. Don't miss the photos of me on the Hayes Photos page.

Say hello to Jon Steel Meyers, my grand nephew and Bernard Hayes' great great great great grandson.

Jon Steel and his mother, Allison.

Jon Steel with his dad, Jon Robert.

Photo: R.G.Hayes

The F-150 in front of the Brouwers' home in Henderson, Nevada.

Photo: R.G.Hayes

Th F-150 in the carport at my home in Santa Barbara.

Photo: R.G.Hayes

The GTi just before I gave it away in May.

Photo: R.G.Hayes

Never quite made my quarter-million mile goal.

Photo: R.G.Hayes

My main man in Vegas.

Jon Robert Meyers (7) using his head. Here we see Jon Robert in action for the Texas Christian University varsity soccer team against Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in the Fall of last year. His dad, maternal grandparents, and assorted aunts and uncles were all there to cheer him on. What made the game interesting was that Jon Robert's maternal grandfather is a Creighton alum from the middle of the previous century. Jon Robert is my nephew, and usually goes by Jon, but I always refer to him as Jon ROBERT J For those of you here for Perlinger genealogy stuff, Jon is a great-great-great-great-grandson of George I Perlinger.

Mt Whitney

Photo:Some hiker on the summit

Bob conquers Mount Whitney
(Third from left, in blue jacket)

Ouch!

Photo:R.G.Hayes

GTI in the State Fraud claim office parking lot, Cedar City, Utah.
I put 22,000 miles on the car after the accident in 1997 before junking the car in May of 2001.

Wadi Rumm

Photo:R.G.Hayes

Wadi Rumm, viewed from the ruins of a Nabatean temple dating from the time of Christ.
Many highly dramatic scenes from the movie Lawrence Of Arabia were filmed here.
The movie is newly released on DVD and is better than ever.

Lawrence's Well

Photo:Some Arab

That's another tourist (a Syrian, actually) and me at Lawrence's Well, Wadi Rumm.
This well is described in Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). I encountered
Bedouin women herding sheep on my hike to the well, but they were not of the Howeitat tribe as were the
Bedouin led by Auda that Lawrence enlisted there in 1917 for the raid on Aqaba.

el Khasneh

Photo:R.G.Hayes

el Khasneh, "The Treasury", Petra.
You may recognize this monument from an Indiana Jones movie.
See the December 1998 issue of National Geographic Magazine
for additional photos of el Khasneh.

Photo:R.G.Hayes

Downtown Petra

This view is looking east along the main road, built by the Romans nearly 2000 years ago, with an even surface, and a crown to shed water to the sides. The bathhouse ruins are straight ahead and on the left at road grade. The cliff tombs cut out of the rock face on the eastern wall of the valley are huge, though it's difficult to tell from this perspective. El Khasneh is around the corner and to the right about a half mile.

el Deir

Photo:R.G.Hayes

el Deir, "The Monastery", Petra.
Note the immense scale of this monument. See the December 1998 issue
of National Geographic Magazine for additional photos of el Deir.
That issue's cover photo is of an Arab sitting on top of this monument.
You saw it here first J.

Potash train

Photo: R.G.Hayes

Potash train with a string of empties heading Northeast near Wadi Rumm.
This narrow gauge line is a branch of the famous Hejaz railway built by Germans for the
Ottoman Empire in 1908 to carry pilgrims from Istanbul to Mecca.
The line was repeatedly blown up by Lawrence during the Arab Revolt. It is now used to carry
potash from the Jordanian interior to the Red Sea port of Aqaba. And no, the train cars aren't tilted over,
they're set onto their frames so that the floor of the car is sloped, facilitating emptying.

Big Buddha

Photo: R.G.Hayes

Miruk Buddha statue, 33m high, 150 tons of bronze.
P'alsang-jon 5 story wood pagoda built in 1624 in left center.
Popju-sa, Songni-san National Park, Republic of Korea.
Fellow engineer Mike Brown to the left.

Telescope Peak

Photo: R.G.Hayes

Telescope Peak in April, Death Valley National Park.
View is from the Panamint Valley,with wildflowers in bloom.

Telescope in June

Photo: R.G.Hayes

Telescope Peak in June, Death Valley National Park.
View is looking south along the saddle between Telescope Peak and Bennet Mountain.
It took me three attempts over a twenty year span before I was able to summit this peak.

The way we were