Brr! It’s frosty outside and I’m breaking out my thermal socks. It is definitely time to turn up the heat, so here are a few sizzling shots that I picked out in the heat of the moment.
First up, the sun-baked hills of southern California, glowing gold on a scorching summer evening.
Next, a fiery sun turns everything red-hot in the sweltering humidity of a New York summer.
Finally, quite possibly the hottest place I’ve visited to date; the Mohave Desert in the height of summer.
If you’re hot to trot, and you would like to join in this week’s travel theme (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:
- Create your own post and title it Travel theme: Hot
- Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
- Get your post in by next Thursday, as the new travel theme comes out on Friday
- Don’t forget to subscribe to keep up to date on the latest weekly travel themes
Can you handle the heat?
xxx
Ailsa
Where's my backpack? 
Great Theme Ailsa. Love the tilt pict of Mohave
Thanks Max! I had to crop it because it was taken from a moving car, so the foreground was a blur of speeding desert brush! 🙂
Well, you get an amazing image !
Great pictures!!
Thanks vastly!
Great theme, Ailsa. Love your hot shots. 🙂
Thanks ad, I needed to turn up the heat a notch. It’s very chilly in Seattle right now!
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Cooking can be hot work..: http://windagainstcurrent.com/2012/11/30/travel-theme-hot/
Yum, that’s an awfully big fire for that little pan! What was Johna cooking? Was that during your circumnavigation of Long Island? xxx
No, it was the summer before (in 2011), when we were camping for a few days on Cape Cod. We made a big fire because it looked pretty and because we’d bought all this wood, and then were too impatient to let the fire die down before we started cooking… potatoes, as I recall 😉
I bet they tasted good. I love cooking outdoors – well, when there are no scorpions or rattlesnakes involved! 😉
Maybe not as hot as you would expect! We did travel to get there…… 😉
http://chittlechattle.com/2012/11/30/travel-theme-hot/
Your lovely pictures warmed me up on a cold night. I clicked the button before I could say it before…… Silly me 🙂
Ooh, that looks really good, I’m hungry now! I always forget how much I love the flavour of balsamic vinegar – and that pea concoction sounds awfully tasty.
Love the NY shot especially but they’re all great.
Thanks Travelbunny, the sweltering sun was lovely to look at, but it made for a very sweaty commute! The subway that day was like a sauna.
I like it the hotter the better, no matter how hot it gets, I can cool off, but when it gets cold, I can’t get warm.
Isn’t that funny – I’m the exact opposite. I find it really easy to warm up with another layer of clothing, but when it gets too hot, I wish I had my own portable air-conditioner. 🙂
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Great photos – love the theme…that’s just what we need today here. It’s freezing cold and we’ve had snow too…
Ooh, I love snow, it makes everything look so much cleaner! Stay warm!
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Hi Ailsa!!! Great challenge!! here is very cold as well…
My entry:
http://ilargia64.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/travel-theme-hot/
Keep warm and safe!
I love this picture, ilargia64, 47C is crazy hot, and the dustiness of the equipment conjures up images of a convoy across the desert. 🙂
Thanks Ailsa…Yes, it was quite an experience!!!
Living in the desert is easy peasy! THanks for the topic “HOT” Be right back!
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Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot!!!
These are wonderful, Patricia. That baby is adorable, his shark outfit is hysterical! And where did you take that silhouette of the camels? I want to be there now! xxx
Good theme for us Aussies!
Although perversely, my response is from Indonesia! http://empressnasigoreng.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/wheres-my-backpack-photo-challenge-hot/
Oh my, that is quite a feast. I love that last shot of your daughter, looks like she was having a really good time, she’s such a cutie. 🙂 Hope you manage to keep cool in muggy Sydney!
Thank you, Ailsa. We only ate a small portion of all that food.
Great pictures!
Thanks Giggs! xxx
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Great shots, Ailsa!
This is little stretch, but ties in, at least tangentially, with a post I was working on… here it is:
http://theretiringsort.com/2012/11/30/some-say-the-world-will-end-in-fire-or-on-december-20th/
Love it, TRS, I’d forgotten about the Mayan calendar ending. Perhaps it doesn’t mark the end of the world but the end of our domination of it. If another animal species takes over, I hope they’re kinder to the planet than we’ve been!
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The last one is hot, but so cool!
Haha, couldn’t have said it better myself, phil! xxx
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Hot enough for Georgie:
http://shaanthz.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/travel-theme-hot/
Aww, Georgie is a cutie. Cats always find the best places to hang out! 🙂
Thanks for the fun themes Ailsa.
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Hottest (and definitely THE Best) Beach Island in the World right now: Boracay!
http://wp.me/p16vHM-9H
Oh wow, that looks like one hot beach party! Beautiful photos, Miguel 🙂
Interesting subject. My take on Hot…Owakudani- http:/travtrails.wordpress.com
Hi Indra, can you put a link to this page in your post so it provides a pingback for others to follow – your above link doesn’t link to your post. 🙂
the link is http://travtrails.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/owakudani-hot-footprints
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Gosh I’d love to travel to some of those places in the US, looks like a photographers dream!
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I’ve been blown away by the beauty of this country, Gilly – and there’s just so much of it. It’s funny, before I came here all I could see in my mind’s eye were the cities, because they’re so iconic and you see them all the time on tv, but they’re just the smallest part of this crazy beautiful country. Love your photos, especially that one of Gadisar Lake in the twilight.
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Hi Ailsa and friends.
Here something hot
http://wp.me/pjXOq-1eo
Lovely shots, Max – that salmon in Lapland looks delicious!
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Here are my hot spots! Love the others I’ve seen on this great theme!
http://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/weekly-travel-theme-hot/
Ooh, you’ve seen lots of hot spots! That top photo of Iceland is amazing, I have got to visit sometime soon! xxx
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Your photos really make “hot” come to life, Here is my attempt at the challenge http://gertygiggles.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/travel-theme-hot/
Yum, I love chestnuts, Gerty, I’m hungry now! 🙂
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Love the desert shots! Hopefully I’ll get some next year when I plan to visit it! Here’s mine for this week. Feeling festive 🙂 http://ayearinmyshoes.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/travel-theme-hot/
Bring lots of sunscreen when you visit, Livvy, the Irish just weren’t cut out for sun! Gorgeous photo, warmed me right up! 🙂
Don’t worry…factor 50 all the way!
Lovely theme and beautiful photographs.
Thanks Indira
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Definitely hot: http://wp.me/p16tta-k2
Ciao 🙂
Wow, that’s about as hot as it gets, Stefano. Where did you take it? Wonderful shot!
Thanks Ailsa. It’s the core of the Erta Ale volcano, in Ethiopian Danakil.
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Hi Alisa, here is my take on theme HOT- http://amaltaas.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/travel-theme-hot/
Wonderful photo, Indira, where was it taken? That is indeed a very royal face. 🙂
Thanks Alisa, they were taken at Visakhapatnam, India.
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Great pictures for the challenge, Ailsa, especially that middle one. It looks like the sky is burning! Here’s mine for this week: http://catbirdinoman.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/travel-theme-hot/
I am classing this one as therapy!
http://mrscarmichael.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/travel-theme-hot/
Haha, I gave you a sympathy like for the ABs defeat – time for another g & t, methinks! xxx Ailsa
Thank you. You are too, too kind 🙂
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Holy smokes Ailsa! Look how many likes you have on your weekly travel theme! Maybe you should take over for the WP Photo Challenge? Impressive! Here is my entry!
http://thirdeyemom.com/2012/12/01/honeymoon-in-greece/
Hee hee, I know, Nicole, it’s starting to get very popular – and taking me an eternity to keep up with everyone’s entries. Love your honeymoon in Greece – looking forward to reading more in the coming weeks – PS tell your son that you still look incredibly young! 😉
Thanks Ailsa! It is wonderful that it is a great success as is your lovely travel blog! Thanks for the compliments! If I don’t smile (which is impossible as I always smile) then the wrinkles don’t show….he he. But I guess for almost 41 it could be worse, right! I think getting over the turning forty thing last year took me a few months but now I’m back in the game! 🙂
A welcome theme in winter, Ailsa 😉
Here’s mine: http://drieskewrites.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/travel-theme-hot/
Stay warm!
Love it, Marion, and the caption really made me laugh! 🙂
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