This weekend, the news reported Chinese and Australian ships picking up a ping from the Black Boxes of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, still missing since March 8. While they have not verified that this is an actual ping from the aircraft, I do have hopes that they are zeroing in on the wreckage. Of course, they said they only heard one ping. One Ping Only.…
April 6, 2014Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted a great story on Slow TV which included a link to the entire train voyage from Bergen, Norway to Oslo. Back in 2007, Daniel and I took this train voyage twice as part of our “Norway in a Nutshell” tour. As I wrote in the Trip Diary, it was dark for both parts of our trip and as I understand it,…
April 5, 2014This map is one of my prized possessions. The photo above is a replica from the New York Public Library’s collection of maps that was recently put online. I could spend days combing over the thousands of maps in the collection. My map came to me in the 1998 when I was at UC Davis. Me and Reed attended the National Collegiate CADD Conference (which…
April 4, 2014
Instead of an April Fool’s Prank (which I not really a fan of) here is a Travel Tuesday photo from 2010. I Was thinking about this photo from the 17 mile Drive in Monterey of the Lone Cypress the other day when I was near Hearst Castle. I totally love the stretch of California from Monterey to Morro Bay.
April 1, 2014
Today is the 125th anniversary of one of my favorite landmarks on the planet – Tour Eiffel (that’s Eiffel Tower in English). I’ve been very lucky to have visited Paris and the Tower 6 times in my life. I’ve made it to the top three times and over the years have taken some photos. Of course I look all around the net and there are…
March 31, 2014Today I spent a few hours helping my friend Tara look for a new place to live. We drove around to a few different places based on websites and books for apartment hunting. My favorite is finding a place that looks good in the magazine and when you drive by it looks just OK. Then you read the reviews about the apartment on a web…
March 30, 2014As mentioned in this post I made it over to Chapman University and visited the new permanent installation for Huell’s legacy and got myself a copy of the California’s Gold Map. The documentary, A Golden State of Mind: The Storytelling Genius of Huell Howser by Chapman professor Jeff Swimmer was one of my favorites as it really told the story of Huell, often times in…
March 29, 2014