Stumbled on this photograph Susan made of Ranger, me and Shadow as we wandered around one of my favorite places that we had pretty much all to ourselves on November 12, 2007 (click it for the bigger picture): 2011 was one of those rare years since discovering Death Valley in 2002 when I didn’t get …
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One of the highlights of our 2007 visit to Paris was the discovery of the Shakespeare & Company bookstore, across the street from the Hotel du Notre Dame where we stayed. I just learned that its founder, George Whitman, died. He was 98. What an amazing life he led. A set of photos inside and …
(click it for the bigger picture) Thursday’s LA Times brought to my attention the 8th-Annual Ojai Valley Lavender Festival, and it didn’t take much convincing to get Susan on board for a daytrip out that gorgeous way. The festival itself took place in Ojai’s Libbey Park and featured scores and scores of vendors selling just …
Thailand & Cambodia 2055 Originally uploaded by there2roam During one of our last excursions in Chiang Mai we journeyed to a village cooperative supporting several indigineous tribes from the area, and of course I couldn’t get together with a local family for a brief and very enjoyable gong ‘n drum jam. Photo by Susan, who’s …
Until last year, the farthest urban environment from home I’d ever rode a bike as an adult was San Antonio, Texas, which deposed riding done in San Francisco way back in 2003. From here on out, I’ll have to work really hard to top my new 8,000-plus mile long-distance record: Chiang Mai, Thailand: Granted, the …
I’m sorry the blog’s been so dormant since we got back stateside. I was greeted with some really bad news the morning after we got home (that I really can’t go into), and on top of that when I haven’t been mutely distracted by said news, I’ve been subsumed in the avalanche of work that …
Too much with the elephants? Really?? Well, it’s not every day you get to ride around on one on dry land — and certainly not quite as often that you get to climb aboard one for a cool-off in a nearby waterway, so you’ll just have to indulge me and/or enjoy the CapCam vid below, …