Nowadays, I seem to get to these posts about a month later. We were in Phoenix in March, one of those spouse-tags-along-to-conference trips. We also went up to see the red rock cliffs of Sedona for a day. As usual, pictures:
The area’s main places of interest we went to: Frank Lloyd Wright’s [...]
Given that we were in Key West at the beginning of February, I’d like to blame something sexy like “writer’s block” rather than the more pedestrian “laziness” for the long delay in getting this post out. But, yeah, “laziness” is a far better explanation.
Cleveland, at the beginning of February, was god awful cold: single [...]
As our guide pulled the bus through the Jurassic Park-lite gate and electric fencing, she said that The Wilds nature conservancy is equal in land area to all the zoos in North America combined. About 3.5 hours south of Cleveland, its 10,000 acres was donated from an American Electric Power surface mine, and houses [...]
Grace had one last vacation day left for the academic year ending in June, and we took advantage of a post-call Friday and the vacation day on Monday to go to Niagara and Toronto. Here are the photos:
One day, I’ll combine all this with a Google Maps route-marker, but the verbal description will have [...]
Earlier this month, we spent a few days at Turks and Caicos, specifically at The Sands, a
We were in Chicago this past weekend. Interesting town: I certainly felt more like I was in a big city than Cleveland, with the density of skyscapers and tall buildings being about the same as Manhattan. Parts of the city, of course, recalls New York, while other parts, in the style of, say, [...]
A couple thousand shutter releases later:
Get fast lenses. The 200mm with teleconverter will be better than a cheap 300mm if the 300mm is a couple stops slower. You won’t have much of a choice of where you’re shooting from if you’re in a tour group. To get acceptable handheld shots on a [...]
The previous entry is Denali part two.
June 11, June 12
In Anchorage, we said good-bye to Tour 21. We’d later bump into people from the tour at the airport — there are only so many flights leaving Anchorage on a given day — but we were on our own now, with Holland America’s guidance now [...]
The previous entry is Denali part one.
June 10
One of the stories Judith told us on the long bus ride down from Prudhoe Bay was about the time she flew on one of the flightseeing tours with a friend of hers to see Mt. McKinley (also called Denali, its Native American name; I’ll use the two [...]
The previous post was the Dalton Highway and the Yukon.
June 9
We ate breakfast — a buffet — at the hotel in Fairbanks. After the somewhat limited dining choices over the past couple of days (I think the Yukon restaurant waiter thanked us for dining with them and joked that “we know you have so [...]