feb
22
2012
Musical Instrument Museum
While Rob and I were in Arizona for Christmas, my mom took us up to Phoenix to explore the Musical Instrument Museum, devoted to musical instruments and traditions from around the world. The museum was full of wonderful cultural artifacts …
feb
02
2012
Delaware Cottage Weekend
Rob has been musing aloud for months about wanting to rent a cottage by the beach in Delaware and spend a week away — perhaps using that time to dig in on a subject he’s especially wanted to study or …
jan
23
2012
Yosemite
Absolutely stunning. Watch it in full-screen mode.
jan
07
2012
What Does Unesco Recognition Mean, Exactly? | NYTimes.com
Steven Erlanger writes, “Independence Hall is a Unesco site, but not the White House. The Grand Canyon, yes. Niagara Falls, no. Inside the odd politics and big business of World Heritage sites.”
jan
03
2012
StreetView Stereographic
Explore Google StreetView via stereographic images. Both awesome and mildly nauseating. Click the “+” sign in the upper left to manipulate the code that produces the images.
dec
30
2011
Get Them to the Debate on Time: Reporters’ Tips | Practical Traveler | NYTimes.com
“Following the presidential candidates requires a journalist to be the most savvy of travelers.”
dec
12
2011
A Not-So-Straight Story | Opinionator | NYTimes.com
Frank Jacobs writes, “The American-Canadian border, famously said to run straight across the 49th parallel for hundreds of miles, is neither straight nor along the 49th parallel.”
dec
02
2011
Iceland: Midnight Sun
Yet another reminder that I really need to go to Iceland one of these days.
nov
28
2011
'New York is Not a City of Alleys': A Film Location Scout's Pet Peeves | The Atlantic Cities
“Nick Carr, a New York City location scout, explains why ‘Ghostbusters’ captured the city so well and what annoys him the most about certain directors.”
Photo of the Day: Charleston Doorway
While we were in South Carolina for Thanksgiving weekend, Rob, Ashley, Ryan and I took a daytrip down to Charleston — always a favorite. We didn’t do a whole lot — mainly just wandered around downtown on foot — but …
oct
12
2011
Western Landscapes
Watch this in full-screen mode. The time-lapse, HDR footage of some of my favorite natural landscapes in Arizona and southern Utah is amazing. (If you can’t see the video above, it’s available on Vimeo.)
oct
03
2011
Photo of the Day: Hello, Atlantic
My favorite time to go to the beach is in the offseason. No crowds. No traffic. Free parking. Quiet. Yes, it’s cold, but there’s a certain beauty in that. Rob and I drove out to Rehoboth Beach, Del., yesterday to …
sep
22
2011
Western Maryland Rail Trail
Rob and I have been slowly working our way up to longer and longer rides on our bikes, purchased this past May. Rob’s even started bike commuting to work once a week. This month, we started taking the bikes on …
sep
16
2011
Vacation Recap: Bryce Canyon National Park
So I wrote a long blog post about visiting Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah, and then the system timed out and ate it. But I can sum up what I wrote in a few words: Just go there. …
sep
07
2011
U-Haul SuperGraphics
A collection of vintage and modern illustrations printed on the sides of U-Haul trucks and trailers.
sep
05
2011
A Hiker’s Plight: How to Help When Water Runs Low | NYTimes.com
“Some hikers say that encountering a thirsty stranger can bring a conflict between showing kindness to someone in need and endangering themselves.”
sep
01
2011
Vacation Recap: Zion National Park, Utah
(Seriously, you should see this photo full-size. Hooray, western “big sky.”) After a week in British Columbia, Utah may seem like an odd place to jump next. But there’s a (vaguely convoluted) reason: A few months ago, Rob earned a …
aug
31
2011
Vacation Recap: Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is a large, mountainous island off the western coast of British Columbia. (Random trivia to underscore just how large it is: Vancouver Island is 12,709 square miles in area. Okinawa, where I lived for 1½ years: 463 square …
aug
30
2011
Vacation Recap: Sea-to-Sky Highway
In some ways, we keep repeating the same trip to Vancouver over and over again — just perfecting it a little more each time. We’ve visited the city enough times that we have our favorite places and things to do. …
Vacation Recap: Vancouver
Vancouver, B.C., is one of our favorite cities, well, anywhere, and we were only too happy to return.
aug
29
2011
Vacation Recap: Seattle
So, back in late July, the weather in the U.S. looked something like this. Washington, D.C. was headed into a nasty stretch of 100+ heat index days (with bonus nasty humidity), and Rob and I were bound for the Pacific …
aug
22
2011
Holocene
This video for Bon Iver's “Holocene” makes me want to visit Iceland. Immediately.
Photo of the Day: Switchback City
Hikers descend into the Bryce Canyon Amphitheatre via the Navajo Loop Trail from Sunset Point. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
