I rise at 7:30. I start packing and write up notes for the last two days. I couldn’t be arsed yesterday and am now rather behind. Bad Ronald. I breakfast with Chris at 9:00. Just for a change, I go…

  Still the single most impressive Cottonmouth, we have ever seen! This snake was unbelievable in size, I really think part of the reason it’s so big it was likely heavily predating on small…

Our first Geely EX5 road trip takes us to Orange for scenic detours, lakeside breakfast and a Grand Final with the locals.

I'm visiting New Orleans -- it's our first time -- and taking some time off from blogging.

Xinjiang 新疆 An autonomous zone. The “wild west” of china. Only 5% habitable. 他们有这种考的鸡蛋，必须得试一试。比煮的鸡蛋香多了。.

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A glimpse at my usual butcher shop. I stopped in for some chicken for Sunday roasting with vegetables. Campo de Fiori. And at the corner nearby, the bakery where Nancy Silverton had her bread…

The Sunday Paper #627 October 11, 2026 I’m on my way to Tokyo today, where I’ll do some sightseeing and recuperating from jetlag before meeting the Japan Paper Tour group on Friday. Heads…

September was dominated by a two week road trip in Hokkaido and then playing lots of Control Resonant on my Steam Machine. Interspersed between many vibe coded projects and hang outs with friends…

Ed People is a YouTuber who travels the world doing something wonderfully simple: dancing with the people he meets along the way. Rather than showing off his own moves, he often asks strangers to…

Bet you weren’t expecting a View From A Hotel Window double feature today, were you?! While my father is in New York City, I find myself in.. Cleveland! Yay, Cleveland! Jokes aside, I am very…

Refusing to spend another weekend in suburban purgatory, I booked us for the opening slot at Meow Wolf – Radio Tave . Whatever my expectations, they were exceeded. Immersive, surreal art that…

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The Fawlty Towers trope comes to mind, “Oh, he’s from Barcelona..” Barcelona airport is large and efficient and nods its head to the notion of fancy ceilings. The taxi queue is Sydney-sized and…

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I cannot conceive how they do a Running Of The Bulls in the city. Feels too distinctly European and packed and well ordered in full of traffic. (It turns out they out it out in a town further North…

Some readers know that my other hobbies are photography and videography with drones. The opportunity to go to Albania offered me a chance to participate in all of these hobbies plus do a heckuva lot…

Went down to the beach to get some air and the waves were crashing in a very satisfying way.203 words · 3 images

Putting five commercial growing kits to the test. Does an actual gardener think grow kits are worth the money for learning about gardening? The post Rating grow kits appeared first on Kat's…

It's Saturday, so unintentionally, neither of our alarms went off. We were also sleeping in the comfiest beds by far, so it was very hard to wake up. Nonetheless, around 7:10a, Dad woke us up and we…

Our first few days in India of our two-month stay in India

So well done and thoughtful. There’s really only one part I disagree with. I bet when you watch you will be able to guess what it is… On the University of Washington Bothell campus, a…

• 4-star hike • 1 to 2 mile options • Easy | Gain 10 feet • York, ME | Maine . Wiggly Bridge at Barrell's Millpond. Fisherman’s Walk follows the York River inland from the harbor to a historic…

10/10/2026, 10:29:12 AM The Black Squirrel leaving after realizing I got too close.

10/3/26 Sally, a 494.5-pound pumpkin, was forklifted onto the pickup for her ride to Carpinito Brothers Farm in Kent.Ever since 2022 when a pumpkin in Maple Leaf attracted media attention, I’ve been…

The rigidly taciturn manager-cashier at the one good Chinese grocery in town, who tersely speaks in minimal Portuguese, and who doesn't know a word of English.... One of the first signs of a newbie…

I'm lost in a foreign city, but in a fun way.

Friend Rich Levine came by for breakfast. He asked me what my most exciting outdoor adventure was. I thought: screwing up my courage so I could traverse “fat man’s misery” and do…

Our last 6 month in New Zealand. I can’t quite recall when we finally decided to pull the plug and move on from New Zealand, but the circumstances around it all became clear that it was time to…

10 October 2026 On the WINGS birding trip to Veracruz, Mexico I was happy to see this colorful Life Bird, the olive warbler (Peucedramus taeniatus). I had missed seeing him while birding in…

30-09-26 This was clearly an early birthday (third October) present from wildlife jesus. It didn't start out particularly impressively but things built nicely and by Aberlady the treats were arriving…

 We are preparing for Thanksgiving dinner Sunday! We've had scattered rain over a few days. The critters are getting prepared for winter. You can't really be prepared, you don't know when it…

Last June, when I left Indiana after the first TEEM onground intensive that I attended, I thought ahead to our next gathering in October, where I anticipated autumnal shifts with still-warm days. I…

August saw a family trip to Vienna, but of course, there was time for me to go for a couple of cycle rides while I was there and in this post, I am going to show you Argentinierstraße, a street to…

Some notes from my recent trip to Windsor in the UK, where I was speaking at a financial planning conference: _________________________________________ The first day of the conference concluded with…

9th Oct 2026 Left Feilding today and headed to the Hawke Bay. The first stop is Napier for two nights. The Scott Base B & B at Feildings was lovely. Hosted by Brenda, it was a very comfortable…

I selected two rather random slide scans, but there is a theme (as you can see by the title of the post). Where can you stay when you go to Palm Springs or Santa Barbara? Stay tuned! This 1963 scan…

The first thing you’ll notice at the Royal Palace of Amsterdam is how varied and beautiful the rooms are. There are Dutch influences, French influences, Japanese influences, even Roman, Greek,…

Steens Mountain rises fifty miles across southeastern Oregon’s high desert, a single tilted block of ancient lava that lifts almost a mile above the flat basin at its feet. Geologists count…

Warning for bugs... I was looking at the photos I have taken so far this year, and I think these photos of a large stripey fly sitting on a massive log of petrified wood might be the nicest ones I…

And as soon as we crossed the entrance to Grand Teton National Park our audio guide said to be alert for wildlife as we passed by a field chock-full of buffalo.

Fall walks

Zero minutes to check-in. Doesn’t that mean I can check in now? No, it means it’s 43 seconds to check-in, which the Qantas app rounds down instead of up. Tip for the developers: add one…

I stand before Nature, looking up to a castle bathed in gold light. What are perfect places? I wonder if this is the closest I’ll find: with the air of home and the light of Day, with the breeze in…

This past Sunday I went out to take some pictures. It was hot, humid, and all that, but I forced myself to get out there and take some snaps. Here’s...

There's something bittersweet about hitting the road for the lake and knowing it is the last time you'll be there for the next six months. The sunflower fields on the highway medians have gone brown…

Take the leaves out of a patch of yard and you get almost half as many moths and butterflies by spring. That’s what University of Maryland researchers found when they counted what emerged from…

Wait, wasn’t I just in NYC? Indeed I was, and now I’m here again, this time for New York Comic Con, where tomorrow I have a panel, a signing and another signing. You should totally come…