２０１０年４月の日本旅
I recently visited Japan from April 1 to 11, 2010. While there I visited with friends and (host) families in Nagoya, Kyoto, and Kanazawa. It...
Ward’s Pics Debut
My new photography site, Ward’s Pics, makes its debut today. While I have enjoyed sharing with everyone my photographs on Facebook,...
Dangerous Business Going Out Your Door
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there...
Me, My Backpack and I
I bought a custom-built VeloTransit back-pack based on their Chinatown 30 Messenger bag a week or so back. I met the owners and lovely...
Idalou, Texas
I kicked off the first leg of my Quadrangle of Awesomeness tour in Idalou, Texas starting back on October 30. I will be here till Wednesday...
Rome, Italy
I find myself in Rome on Italy’s celebration of the end of World War I — 4 November 2010. I arrived around 6:40 in the morning whereby I...
Trani, Italy
I arrived in Trani, Italy last night by train. My good friend Dave, who I am currently staying with, met me at Foggia where we traveled...
Matera, Italy
Today Dave, his son Jay and I travelled a bit south to the town of Matera. The area has been settled since Paleolithic times with peoples...
Castel del Monte
Today included a very busy morning planning the remainder of my six days in Italy. We now have firm plans to see Naples, Pompeii, Florence,...
Torre Sansanello and Agriturismo Oh My!
After visiting Castel del Monte we met up with some other ex-pat(riots) at Torre Sansanello, a farm that is a part of the booming...
Reggia di Caserta
On my way from Trani to Naples I had a change-over in trains at Caserta. It was only happenstance that I even know about Reggia di Caserta...
Pompeii
Today I went to Pompeii on what is my second and last day in Naples. (For the curious, the ruins of the ancient city are spelled “Pompeii”...
Napoli
Napoli is a city, as many before me have iterated and I will re-iterate, that either you love or your hate. My first impressions of Napoli...
Firenze
I arrived in Firenze (Florence) from Napoli on an express train a little before 10 AM today. By 11 AM I was settled in my home away from...
Firenze vis-à-vis HDR
After what amounted to a rather dull day for photographs yesterday, I headed back out in Firenze in hopes of getting some pictures that...
Siena
Today I visited Siena (not Sienna) which is situated halfway between Firenze and Roma. It is medieval town which includes more than few...
Dubai
My first encounter with Dubai came at night stepping off a flight on Tuesday from Athens, Greece. I, a bit weary and hyped on adrenaline,...
Second Chances
Some three weeks later here I sit at the end of my journey, my “quadrangle of awesomeness” at a close. As I wrote previously, this...
San Francisco Peninsula
I spent a few hours along the San Francisco Peninsula today, driving south from the Golden Gate Bridge along Highway 1. It is amazing the...
California Coast Road-trip
I drove up out of Sunnyvale taking Highway 1 once I was free of San Francisco north of Golden Gate Bridge. Highway 1, for the most part,...
Sunset over San Francisco
I happened to have the great pleasure of reconnecting with a good friend, Dave, who I have not conversed with, at least in person, in over...
Olympic Peninsula and Ferries
Yesterday was one of those perfect days that it is hard to fully describe either in words or pictures. The weather was so clear and sunny...
LIGO
I have been wanting to visit LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) for quite some time. It is not merely a physics...
Niagara Falls
On July 8th I drove up to Niagara Falls while out visiting my very good friends in Buffalo, New York. Like so many things that when in your...
Sun’licious
I took a little over a week to go and visit my friends and family back East in western and central New York including a quick trip up to...
Porta-potty: Locked and Loaded
Today was one of those days. You would think that maybe the gods would have let me pass unfettered, but sadly they seemed to have thought I...
Road-tripping down US2
There is nothing quite like a road-trip to make everything a-oh-kay. Saturday proved itself to be the perfect day to jump into my car and...
Kauai, Hawaii
May we toast to here, the inbetweens, where in the crevices and the nooks and the crannies with the tumbles and some times the fumbles, goes...
Hawaii, Hawaii
Hawaii, the “big island”, lives up to its name. To the west it is tumble-weed dry, to the south lush and wet under rain forest clouds, to...
Curiously Enough
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the “internets” some weeks ago. I, on some great fluke of luck, stumbled upon a lottery to...