Travel

I really need to write these updates much, much closer to the time that I have the experiences, because my brain isn’t smart and so, so much gets lost, forgotten,…

If you’re reading this, you likely already know, but I went to Chernobyl by way of Kiev, and took some pictures. There are probably stories I should tell, you know,…

It’s been covered ad-nauseam already, both in traditional media and social, but I was on a boat during the event itself, and I feel like I want to acknowledge the…

and was, indeed, as real as it got. I did a couple gigs on the Runaway to Paradise with Jon Bon Jovi cruise last weekend, and although I didn’t take…

Iceland. Land of glaciers, hot springs and geothermal pools. Green where its neighbor is icy, it’s a jewel in the North Atlantic. The area surrounding Reykjavík, the capital city, contains…

Here i sit in the AA lounge, having been productive (kind of) in the last couple hours by cataloging my writing projects and re-familiarizing myself with them, and now I…

Back in May of 2013, I visited South Africa’s wine country an hour or so north of Cape Town for a couple days and loved it.  As you can see…

Here’s a test of a “places I’ve been” map.  It’s not complete, but to match with the “bucket list” post, I think I have to have a list of places…

From bizarre museums to beautiful baths, Budapest really had a lot to offer.  Again, more than a year later, I’m thinking about the things I didn’t photograph and wishing I…

With all this talk about travel, it occurs to me that during my 2+ year layoff where I didn’t post, some things happened that I’d like to have record of,…

Travel is important. It gives us perspective. It challenges our perceptions. It teaches us problem solving.  It comes with great food.  It interrupts the normal flow of our lives and…

Believe it or not, Paris was again on the agenda in May, this time with Laura, and I have 409 pictures to prove it.  The full story is a little…

Back in April 2015 I flew down to Buenos Aires and then, with a little help from my good friend Silvana, drove cross-country to Mendoza (an 11-hour ordeal made longer…

Since I’m doing video right now – here’s Minh’s video of us running with the bulls in 2013.

After the break, natch.

Portland may not have been all I was dreaming of and more, but we take the good with the bad and just fucking own it, right?  I did manage to do a decent shoot up that way and see Scott and Sharon, so there were some good parts of the weekend, too.

One of the best of the bad things was the fog on the drive up.  It was super stressful for ~300 miles, with dense fog, then a patch of clear, then another long run of zero-vis.  I’m glad I was doing a Time Lapse!  Anyway, below the fold is the video if you’re interested, complete with a mashup by Loo & Placido. (…because what else?)

One thing to note is that I had to turn around about 10 minutes into the drive, adding 40 minutes to the overall trip, but it syncs up really nicely with the intro to the song, so it’s 100% okay now in a way that it definitely was not before.  Anyway, enjoy.

I went to London with Laura in September, and am just now getting around to posting some pictures. There are like 150 in all, which reflects about 20% of the…

Now that I’m not traveling for a living anymore (what AM I doing for a living anymore?), I have to make an actual effort to see people I love. I’m…

I keep doing these things – I don’t know why.  I know that I’m in Australia and that’s cool, and I know that most people don’t get to see this sort of view often (at least, I don’t), so I’ll put it up. I spent an unreasonable amount of time tweaking this thing, recording the voiceover (which is terrible, I apologize in advance), making decisions and generally fretting, but at the end of the day I figured it wasn’t going to get better, so I hit the EXPORT button.

Video after the break.

I did a weird time lapse video yesterday while I was driving south through basically the entire Barossa Valley in South Australia yesterday.  It’s weird because I inexplicably chose 12 fpm as a format, which just makes it all look unnaturally-jumpy to me.  Sorry about that.

vid after el break.

I failed to update much while I was home. I did not, however, fail to be busy. Jeep rhinolining came in and it’s AWESOME.

I know everybody gets their stuff on FB anymore, but for people who still use the internet as if it’s not a revival of AOL in 1996, here’s the first…

and wow I’m tired!We’ve been running hard this month, no doubt. I’m in Cologne today for a show, yesterday was a show in Stuttgart, Wednesday was Gdansk, Tuesday was Berlin……

…and only now am remembering it.

But not how you’d think. This time, I put my stuff through, and (it turns out) someone grabbed my bag thinking it was theirs.  It was a real pain in…