Scenery from Amsterdam

August 2016 Photos from a trip to Amsterdam back in 2016. Such a beautiful historic city. Been there a half dozen times.

Cross Country Road Trip

October 2022 This past October we did a five day drive cross country. Almost 2500 miles, saw beautiful scenery along the highways from northern Nevada thru Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and finally to Georgia. The cross-country drive east starting along America’s loneliest Road Highway 50 is spectacular, wide open, and way out…

Empire State Views, NYC NY

July 2014 Years ago a co-worker and I were working in New York City near the Empire State Building. When we completed the work he convinced me to pay the $50 for a ticket to the top of the building. I was reluctant to spend fifty bucks on an elevator ride but it turned out…

Night Time Lapse, Nevada

March 2022 Been playing around with my GoPro 9 camera more and more and having fun making all day all night time-lapse videos out in Nevada. Had a fairly big weather system blowing in the other day so set up my camera to record on a tripod on my porch with a power cord hooked…

New York, NY

January 2022 NYC – New York City, the big city, the place where they say if you can make it there you can make it anywhere. It’s not a city for the timid. It’s a concrete jungle, it’s cold, it’s callous, it’s beautiful. New York has a great history, it’s a cornucopia of cultures, a…

Downtown Detroit

December 2021 Local scenery from downtown Detroit in the area around the hotel I stayed at while working at the convention center. Interesting place, historic, mid-century and modern-ish all at the same time. There were a lot of cool unique buildings to see and the dining was great at the Apparatus Room restaurant inside the…

Stargazing in Nevada

Dec 2020 The star of Bethlehem was visible this week for the first time in nearly 800 years. The “star” is made up when the planets Jupiter and Saturn align just right to appear as a single very bright star. This is the star that the wisemen followed that famous night on Christmas Eve to…

Space Shuttle Launch, Cape Canaveral FL

Sept 8, 2000 In late August 2000 I was sent to Cocoa Beach Florida to work at NASA Cape Canaveral for a few weeks to work with another vendor to troubleshoot a storage network problem at their data center. Ended up being there for three weeks but it was one of the best trips I’ve…

Sidecar ride up coast of California Part 7

Back in 2014 I purchased a Russian made Ural Gear Up Sidecar Motorcycle. This is Day y of our sidecar ride up the coast of California. Last leg of the trip from Monterey to Folsom.

Sidecar ride up coast of California Part 6

Back in 2014 I purchased a Russian made Ural Gear Up Sidecar Motorcycle. This is Day 6 of our sidecar ride up the coast of California Cambria thru Big Sur to Monterey.

Sidecar ride up coast of California Part 5

Back in 2014 I purchased a Russian made Ural Gear Up Sidecar Motorcycle. This is Day 5 of our sidecar ride up the coast of California. We stayed in Cambria at Moonstone Beach and hung out and rode around and explored the local area for the day.