Nice travels and pictures even though it is of correctional systems. Lol.

Upvote please

informative photography.
thanks a lot for sharing..

What was the cat behind bars for? 😏

Travel meets photography, that is adventure at its peak!

Good stuff as always @velimir.
Politicians serving prison time seems about right, lol!!

Travelling is indeed a form of education as it provides excitement, fun, learning, even risks and dangers that create suspense and fear sometimes. I enjoyed your experience thoroughly.

Florence, AZ is now almost a bedroom community to Phoenix, but is home to the State Maximum Security Prison.  It's where you go to do hard time in Arizona.  The residents don't like to talk about it much, but it IS the economic driver of the city.  One of our greatest cultural sites (Casa Grande) is very near and they would way rather talk about that.

I'm with you on pitching the on line guides.  I have a GPS on my bike that I use as a hyper accurate speedometer and to tell me where the nearest gas station is :)  Some of my coolest discoveries have been when I am hopelessly lost.

Thanks for another great post in the series.  As always, the photography is completely over the top and the writing is superb.  Possibly the best combination of the two on Steemit.

Thank you

>I found this weird looking statue. It is located in a garden opposite to the south entrance of the penitentiary. Looks dramatic and scary to me

You're right, that statue does look terrifying, I bet it has been there for ages, from the looks of it, almost a century old and that kitty is so cute, I enjoyed the post, neatly arranged and well presented, good job.

Good post! I will try to learn from you so i can grow my channel like yours!

Kind regards from a fellow photographer!

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a good adventure

In the last picture. It looks like a cat would attack you. Do not you think like that? Or did I get it wrong understand?
I hope not. I am so afraid of angry cats. Once in a while cat was cut off hands.

I guess it was a nice trip :)

amazing and the well managed post great work i like it

Great work man you traveling is awesome you are the i watched all part well done keep it up.

Cats love to do modeling and are selfie-lovers. I've never seen a single camera-shy cat in my life. Sometimes, they even stare in a way that makes us look stupid regardless how important task we are doing. For example, this cat has made the cameraman look dumb (sorry @velimir if it was you :))
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Isn't it interesting to visit the *historic* places on motorcycle. This must be very refreshing. I read somewhere that when you go out, you actually come in. It was about finding inner peace that one gets through exploring the world because there is so much in the world that gives us positive energy. I would like to share this beautiful quote with the people through your wall:
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Excellent post @velimir. 

Steem On!

Your motorcycle series is more like a travel blog and I'm loving it. If you could add more photos of the places you visit, it will add more value in your posts. Fantastic work @velimir.

Haha... The penitentiary is the best thing about the town, seems like bad folks gets arrested all the time, hence the reduced crime rate and high appraise of the prison 

Photos are lovely, i learnt alot from your daily blogs.. Keep it 👆

Posting yang sangat bagus dan menarik sekali sangat propesional saya menyukainya

very unfortunate, a very beautiful town but wasted

i think this is awesome i am meaning going to new places and enejying things sck an amazing thing to do loved it

Amazing photography.Much obliged for sharing it

This post has been Resteemed and Upvoted by @alaminbinamir
Governments around the world,
are using "Child Protection Agencies"
to take children away from loving families
and place them in foster care or group homes
or put up for adoption.
THESE FAMILIES NEED PROTECTING.
Thank-you @velimir for supporting

I like your honesty, and it is sad to see how the areas are abandoned and deterred by the simple carelessness of the authorities or the unconsciousness of people with the environment that surrounds them, in the same way that happens in your photos is reflected in nature.

You are right - the best way to find out about a place or a city is to ask the locals. No Internet resource will tell you what the locals know.
I like the way you find in simple places - not simple things. This vision of the surrounding world is priceless :) this is a sign of a creative personality
The cat in the last photo obviously asked you for something to eat :)
Have a good day

The cat looks sad and hungry :(

very good, i like this

Omg man sure that travel was so exiting! If you like to watch interesting content I invite you to follow me and vote. Regards! :D

Your cruiser arrangement is more similar to a movement blog and I'm adoring it.

Really nice post. 
About the cats, if you dont own a cat i am sure you will have an issue with their staring,  they are naturally attuned to non-verbal communication:) 
 In human culture, staring is often considered to be extremely rude. Therefore, this may naturally lead on to our own misconceptions and misinterpretations of a cats stare as well. Actually from the experience of owning a  cat, cats stare at us because they are interested in what we are doing or she’s staring because she wants something to eat and believes that if she stares into your eyes she can somehow control your mind and force you to do her bidding. (OK, maybe the mind control part of that isn't true, but she may well be hungry :) 
So @velimir, take that cat’s interest as a compliment, not all will stare like that. :) 
I really like the history behind that church and prison. That shows a transition from bad to good.. Good always wins:) 
I liked to know that you like history and raw knowledge. We can find information online very easily. Knowledge is another matter altogether. 
It’s a very old observation that the most ignorant people are usually full of opinions, while many of the most knowledgeable people are full of doubt. Other people are certainly sources of knowledge just like you decide to ask for knowledge and not information. 
My worry is that the superabundance of information is devaluing knowledge. The more that information piles up on Internet servers around the world, and the easier it is for that information to be found and taken for granted. But when the get the original inhabitants put you through the history, you wont forget anytime soon and ofcourse you would enjoy the conversation because the person will definitely show you around and you can touch them and even take your own picture.  
I fear that the Internet has already greatly weakened our sense of what is distinctive about knowledge, and why it is worth seeking.
I really feel your mindset @velimir. About the reply you gave to @darksea, wow, that was epic. No one would know that you took the pic of that cat not just that it was scary and was staring, but because it was as if it was behind bars and your post here was about prison and cell. This is deep thinking at it's best. You deserve an oscar :) 
This has spurred me to think deeper while reading your post. You are a Legend in thinking. Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

I enjoyed the post. Thanks.

Awesome. I loved it. What a contrast of a church and prison. 
I agree with you on the place of interacting with people in a locality about their indigenous history. Well, you can find tons of opinions online, ready-made, it is easy to find, but not as easy to digest as a human will pull you through.  Just think of the different types of pages that a typical Web search turns up: news articles, which summarize events for the average person; blogs, which are usually very brief; Web forums, which only rarely go into depth; and encyclopedia articles and other mere summaries of topics. The point is that most of the stuff that you typically find on the Internet is pretty lightweight especially ones that involves ancient times. Just like @velimir met people on the streets of that locality to inquire more on the topic. 

“Right,” you say, “what’s wrong with the internet? Great taste, less filling!
Excellent post.

hello hello friend hoy pude ver tu post las fotos son buenas y expresivas, la historia es muy actual , es bueno vistar lugares diferentes para compartir un rato diferente.
 Por ultimo my good amigo te invito a leer mi post se que te gustara, tambien comparte con amigos y familia.por favor deme up voto y comenta.recuerda junto podemos ayudarnos el uno al otro
saludos

@velimir 
Thank you for sharing and I have to say thank you to myself too that I follow you because your beautiful post make me feel like to travel with you too and get to know new things ... :-) 

Oh one more thing is , I can practice my reading skill too :D .. English is hard for me but I believe if I try and don't give up then I can do it :-)  

Thank you 
T.J. 
@giantkidishere

A ghost town. Looks like this kitty has something against you, or he/she's also a prisoner?

this place looks so haunted . great work

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Excellent Pictures my Friend

Love this reportage!