If you’re reading this on Saturday, April, 14, I’m on my way to the Big Island of Hawaii. I have a lot of photos from my day at the Getty Museum in LA up on Flickr. I’ll have a write-up, hopefully, sometime tomorrow. I should be putting up my first videos next week from Hawaii. …
Here is what I plan to do with my time in civilization: Go see The Simpsons movie Go see the Bourne Ultimatum Get the new Dune novel on Tuesday (Screw Harry Potter. This has been decades in the making) Get a new lens for my camera Get an extra laptop battery Get some computer games …
A quick summary of where the last several weeks have gone: – I got a 160gb Firewire hard drive for my laptop. This pretty much solved the “where do I put my photos” problem with a vengeance. Between this, my old iPod and my laptop, I have more than enough room for anything digital. I’m …
I’m often asked if there are things I miss from home. Outside the obvious friends and family there is one thing I miss. Watching the Green Bay Packers. Today they are playing in what will be one of the coldest games in NFL history for the NFC Championship at Lambeau Field. It doesn’t get much …
I was on the Joy Cardin Show> on Wisconsin Public Radio, Wednesday, July 21 at 8am. We talked about travel, took calls and I answered questions. You can download an mp3 of the show, or listen
This is the final push. You’ve probably seen the little black square on the side of my site for the last few months. They announce the winners on October 16, which means there is only one week left for voting. If you enjoy my site and what I’m doing, please take 30 seconds to vote …
I’ve picked a camera. I’m going with the Nikon D200. I hope to purchase it later this week. The choice really boiled down to one thing and one thing only. GPS integration. I’m not that sophisticated in photography to know the ins and outs of various camera settings, so the performance wasn’t that big of …
I am not dead. I’ve been in Hawaii this week and took a break from the website. I’ve been going to movies, eating junk food and reading fiction. I’m currently waiting for some mail from the mainland to arrive and for a package I sent out to arrive. I’ll probably be here for about five …
Most of my readers haven’t been following me since the start of my trip. What I’m going to try to do is periodic updates where I can share some of the things I was doing/seeing one and two years ago, in late April of 2007 and 2008. It also gives me a good excuse to …