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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

So I pulled the trigger.

[caption id="attachment_1944" align="alignright"]New Library at Alexandria[/caption]So I didn’t update during my down day, and after that, events just proceeded too fast for me to keep up with.

[caption id="attachment_1941" align="alignleft" width="345"]Facade of the Egyptian Museum[/caption]Welcome back! Today’s installment takes us to the Egyptian Museum in big, bad Tahrir Square, through that self-same roundabout, across Cairo into the …

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 …