Category Archives: My travels

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…

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?…

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…

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…

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)…

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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Okay, try to guess where I went on my latest adventure… I will give you some hints…

There I am, smack-dab in the middle of… my most recent adventure. Try to guess where I went. Here are some more hints. The place I went has a river… and some streams. Some of these streams fall for quite … Continue reading

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Today, I traveled all around the world, and all I got you was a bunch of lousy flower pictures… part 3… starting with flesh-melting carnivorous flowers of doom!!!

Okay, the title might be a little over the top, but these pitcher plants do indeed lure insects into their vases, and then slowly dissolve them in a pool of digestive juices. We are now officially in the part of … Continue reading

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A birthday party for Gonzo: A story with lots of dogs, and some other things, and also some words you are going to have to read, but I will put them between pictures of cute dogs, so it shouldn’t be too bad… part 3…

You can see love when you look into a dog’s eyes. I know I have said this before, but don’t trust people if dogs, horses and babies don’t like them. Dogs, horses and babies love me. I think you can … Continue reading

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A birthday party for Gonzo: A story with lots of dogs, and some other things, and also some words you are going to have to read, but I will put them between pictures of cute dogs, so it shouldn’t be too bad… part 1…

Yes, I know those aren’t dogs. Those are deer. Don’t be a wiezenhiemer! You know that whenever I come back to the Bay Area to see my mom, I play the ‘spot the deer before you have to go back … Continue reading

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San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog, more dogs on blogs, and some splashy water… oh, and a really close up picture of the moon…

The city. The bridge. A cute dog. One of the things I do when I come back the Bay Area to visit my mom and my friends, and end up going down to the bay to pet other people’s dogs … Continue reading

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