Category Archives: Travel

Aug
22
2010

Summer Vacation - Hike and Bike!

We set out to see parts of the Eastern US we’d never been to. [photo gallery] Our secondary goal was to find hiking and bicycle trails along the way. It turned out to be very difficult to identify acceptable cycling trails on the Web. The various “trails” websites, etc. are frequently misleading. For example, we were looking [...]

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Aug
15
2010

Tweets of the Week - 2010-08-15

Vacation: Beartown State Park
http://www.beartownstatepark.com/ #
Vacation: Pine Creek Rail Trail -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Creek_Rail_Trail #
Vacation: Erie Canalway Trail
http://www.ptny.org/canalway/ #
Vacation: Ashuwillticook Rail Trail -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashuwillticook_Rail_Trail #
Vacation: Gettysburg National Military Park (U.S. National Park Service) http://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm #
Vacation: Dry Falls (North Carolina) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Falls_(Macon_County) #
Vacation: Black Rock State Park Georgia
http://www.gastateparks.org/BlackRock #

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Jul
12
2010

Iowa Sunrise HDR Scenes

On a recent visit to Iowa I happened to be up early and driving along the Maquoketa Caves road just after sunrise. The photo above is my first attempt at building a panorama from separate HDR images (each of which is built from three separate exposures). It was spur of the moment and hand held. I’m very pleased [...]

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May
31
2010

Trip to Washington DC

Photo Gallery
Cathy and I recently had a nice break in Washington DC. Above is a gallery of general photographs on and around the National Mall. By pure coincidence, we got to see my brother-in-law Doug Pray.

There are several other galleries described elsewhere and summarized here…
Air and Space Museum
National Gallery of [...]

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May
31
2010

Korean War Memorial

Photo Gallery

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May
28
2010

HDR Photos from the National Mall

HDR Gallery

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May
28
2010

National Mall Panorama


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May
26
2010

Smithsonian Flower Garden 2010

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I found a nice series of small gardens just East of the Smithsonian Castle. Several species I had never seen before. The nearly perfect magnolia bloom was on a tree near the entrance to the National Art Gallery. I was very happy to find one at ground level that hadn’t [...]

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May
14
2010

Philadelphia Scenes

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Jan
30
2010

Everglades Canoe Trip 2010

Back to the Everglades for an eight day expedition with my friend Al Borchers [photo gallery]. This year we decided to attempt some more difficult routes, starting with a long paddle to North River Chickee on the first day. It was quickly apparent that the “great freeze of 2010″ had occurred the week before—there were [...]

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