Vacation

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

So Mt. Whitney wasn’t a vacation, per se, but I don’t have an “Outdoor Torture” category, so for lack of a better place to put it, some notes on my hike go here.

I’m not sure where to start, really.

There is a lot of updating to do, as since my last update, I climbed Mt Whitney and spent a couple days in Vegas.  I’ve got pictures and a bit…

I was supposed to be skiing Wednesday, Thursday and today, but after 3 hours of rainy skiing Wednesday and no skiing (or break from the rain) on Thursday, I awoke…

If you buy a red 4-cylinder soft top Jeep, I want to recommend that you don’t plan to drive it across the country with a white Honda Rebel 250 on a carrier attached to the trailer hitch. If you are going to do all that, I’d recommend not filling it up with crap and having a bum fuel or electrical system.

It’s quite a bit of work to get across Oklahoma and North out of Texas without getting practically blown off the road, first of all.

So I pulled the trigger.

So I didn’t update during my down day, and after that, events just proceeded too fast for me to keep up with.

Facade of the Egyptian Museum

Today’s installment takes us to the Egyptian Museum in big, bad Tahrir Square, through that self-same roundabout, across Cairo into the City of the Dead and to a Mosque built over 800 years ago, as well as to a few other places I may or may not get to.

I can’t decide if I recommend reading any further today, actually, because today was so much weirder than yesterday and definitely contained less iconic stuff (although King Tut’s shit is pretty well-known).

Dateline: Giza

Today’s update is long!

In case you were wondering about the weather for the next few stories, I figure I’ll just post the 10-day forecast and see if it deviates at all.

We were at the Coliseum!

It’s done. We’re going to Rome.  And the flying is free.  Lest I ever complain about working for a tour again, here’s what you can tell me: “You had to…