Looking through my Argentina photos, I found this one that is a nice shot of me, Mom, and Gary on the boat that went up to the base of the famous Iguazu Falls on the Argentina/Brazil border. This is as we were traveling down the river towards the falls and just before we got soaked in COLD water.. Here is us getting close to the…
April 24, 2014Looks like it’s time to relocate based on how astronomical my current landlord keeps raising the rent. Really, we should have moved last year but we were able to barely make it work. It’s been tough over the past 11 months, and I think it is high time we were came to our senses and stop spending so much money on rent. Sad part is…
April 23, 2014I talk a lot about earthquakes here at Club Josh, but I love Volcanos too. Mt. St. Helens, Krakatoa, Vesuvius – I love all the classics. One of my dream trips is to travel to the island of Hawaii to observe the Kilauea volcano in person and hike in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Via Twitter user David Pyle (@davidmpyle) I’ve discovered this great 1918 video…
April 21, 2014I’ve been keeping my eyes on the new retro-Star Trek themed posters that have cropped up in recent years. If you take a look over on Think Geek, they have all of the 11 different series of posters that have been released. While some are cool, nothing has really caught my eye. A while ago, Bye Bye Robot came up with some redesigns of the…
April 20, 2014Just after 5am – 5:12 to be exact, the state of California experienced one of the most significant earthquakes ever recorded. The approx. 7.9 temblor shook the San Francisco Bay area and parts of California from Los Angeles to the Oregon Border and east to Nevada. Most people remember not just the quake, but the great fire afterwards that destroyed most of the city of…
April 18, 201416 years ago today, I was at the top of the Grand Arche in Paris on a cold April morning. The photo below is in my never-before-seen collection of photos from the 1998 Europe trip and was actually two film photos that I had to try and stitch together despite different white balances and perspective. Refresh your memory of this day in the Trip Diaries…
April 17, 2014