Saturday trip around Puget Sound with kids and cameras.

One of the things I did today, was sign up for ‘foursquare‘, an app that lets you ‘check-in’ to places, and those with participating incentives will send coupons to your phone. It’s and interesting experiment. I’ll see how that works out today.

M.V. Kitsap mid-sound, enroute Bremerton

Passengers on stern pickle-forks of ferry [...]

I-205, the Portland Sucker Bet

Not to scale, clearly.

All the years I have lived up here, and traveled down I-5 to California, I wondered if this sign, just south of Portland was misleading. It always seemed to take far longer and be far more easterly to take the I-205 bypass around Portland, than the I-5 central route through the [...]

St. Maarten aircaft landing videos

While talking about cool places to go, I was looking up links to St. Maarten (visited there in 2001).   Which, inevitably brings me to look up YouTube videos of landings there.    Here are a few that I really liked.. the last one gives you a REAL feel for how hairball that approach is!

Airbus A340 [...]

8 hours to departure.

Then then there were three (less). One person out with flu, another had a technical issue with their bike and a third simply decided to pass.

Myself, I’m going. Tank bag arrived today. Smaller than I expected. HOWEVER, it seems well constructed and for a day bag.. I think it will be perfect. The SW-Motec [...]

Getting ready for Spain

My how fast this trip came upon me! Time to get serious about packing my gear, selecting camera equipment to take and getting some new clothes.

On Thursday, May 7th I’m off to Barcelona (via Amsterdam — maybe I’ll get lost and miss my flight.. hahah) for 8 days. I love to travel, but all [...]