Category Archives: My travels

The most astounding sunset I ever saw… and I have seen a lot of sunsets, I mean, I do posts about them all the time… remember when I tried to post a sunset photo every night for an entire year?

Posted on August 28, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Yes, all these fires raging in California did allow me to visit Yosemite and be almost the only person there. But they have played havoc with the sunsets on my trip to the Bay Area to visit my mom for … Continue reading →

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Hey, I bet nobody else you know got up at four this morning and drove for miles just to walk out onto the Golden Gate Bridge to get you some photos… part 2… in which I pay tribute to our military, and discuss some of the military history of the Bay Area…

Posted on August 27, 2018 by pouringmyartout

This will be the only part of my series about my most recent adventure in San Francisco that is not, more or less, in chronological order- probably- and I guess, most of it almost is. After I finished walking out … Continue reading →

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My Yosemite adventure… part 5… the wildlife… part 3… in which I finally tell you all about that bear, and share the photos of deer so close that you can see their eyelashes…

Posted on August 27, 2018 by pouringmyartout

There is the bear I saw on my adventure in Yosemite. Not only did I see him once, I saw him twice. On two separate days. Even the park rangers were amazed by that. Lots of people go to Yosemite … Continue reading →

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My Yosemite adventure… part 4… the wildlife… part 2… where I was attacked and eaten by a bear…

Posted on August 27, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Yes, these two blurry images capture the moment before my demise… It was quite painful, being eaten by a bear, but the scenery was beautiful, and I did get some good shots of the bear. No, silly, I didn’t get … Continue reading →

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My Yosemite adventure… part 3… the wildlife… part 1…

Posted on August 26, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Another good thing about the huge wildfires that closed Yosemite until just before I took my little road trip there, is that, because there were almost no people around, I had the best wildlife experiences of my life there on … Continue reading →

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Hey, I bet nobody else you know got up at four this morning and drove for miles just to walk out onto the Golden Gate Bridge to get you some photos…

Posted on August 26, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Well, I did. I mean, I did lots of other stuff too, and this will certainly make doing my Yosemite picture posts more challenging, but hey, I do it all for you. So, bearing in mind that I am, obviously, … Continue reading →

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My Yosemite adventure… part 2… Half Dome, a very famous rock… or, well, uh, half of a very famous rock?… a very famous half-rock?…a famous rock half?…

Posted on August 25, 2018 by pouringmyartout

As I said in the first three posts in this series… what?… yes, I know, this is titled ‘part 2’, but there were two posts before part 1, that were really part of… you know, you should really try to … Continue reading →

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We interrupt our regularly scheduled Yosemite posts to bring you another little adventure, featuring good old-fashioned rock and roll, with a hint of Bay Area liberal ‘screw haters’ attitude…

Posted on August 25, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Where did I go last night that featured a pinball machine with an anti-racism message? Why, to the fabulous ‘Ivy Room’ in Albany, California. And what did I do there? I saw this guy play. Okay, so you went to … Continue reading →

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My Yosemite adventure… part 1…

Posted on August 24, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Yes, I know, I already did two posts about this adventure, so the title will confuse people. Good. I can’t explain, over and over in every upcoming post, how the fires burning around Yosemite made it possible for me to … Continue reading →

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Okay, you guessed it, I went to Yosemite… (with some disturbing photos of a smoldering California)…

Posted on August 24, 2018 by pouringmyartout

I was only planning on doing a day trip, but I ended up staying over night. I took a lot of pictures. I have to think about how to present them, and which to post, because this is only the … Continue reading →

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