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FacebookSingapore Trip Day 1: May 10 on 10, Singapore edition
Since this seems as good a place to pitch it as any (don't think I've mentioned it on here before) go vote for me for Best Local Blogger in the A-List competition on one of our local news stations. :-) I know I won't win, but it'd be fun to get some points on the board at least... ;-) Ok, so →
Singapore Trip Day 0: Trains, Planes, and Shuttle Buses
Hello from Singapore!! Even though I've only slept about 15 hours in the past four days, my body is convinced it's 10:30 AM (California time) so despite the fact that it's 1:35 AM Tuesday here, I'm wide awake. Oh well. I take hought I'd post this really quickly and then go try to sleep -- between the time difference and →
February 10 on 10: Macro lens edition
10 on 10: A photo taken every hour, for ten consecutive hours, on the tenth of the month. ~~~ For this month's 10 on 10, I opted to bust out the 100mm macro lens, since I just couldn't stomach the idea of trying to make my work day photographically interesting yet again. "Here's me with a student. Here's me working on a →
Dear Forbes. Stuff it.
Dear Forbes Magazine, Last week you published your annual ranking of "America's Most Miserable Cities." I somehow missed reading about it until a couple of days ago (probably had something to do with the flu-induced delirium I was in most of the week) but ever since I read it and saw that Sacramento was ranked American's Fifth Most Miserable City, I've →
Help me pick a 2010 picture of the year!
I meant to post this on Saturday, but I ended up posting those fireworks pictures instead, because I liked how they turned out. So here is my second and last "year in review" post --help me pick a "best picture of 2010" shot by posting in the comments with the number of the one you like. :-) Here's a link →
Maui Trip Days 0, 1, and 2: Maui Christmas!!
What was the hint in yesterday's picture? Here, let me post it again: ~ I've never taken a spur of the moment vacation before, and I've certainly never taken one to someplace like Maui. But here it is, 5:00 Tuesday morning (stupid jet lag), and I'm sitting on the couch of the timeshare we scored on Ka'anapali beach, listening to the waves →
115,000 frequent flier miles
I've never taken a spur-of-the-moment vacation before, but this past Thursday, an opportunity came up that was too fantastic to pass up. We made the final decision early Friday morning, and at 3AM I cashed in every single one of my accrued frequent flier miles (as well as 11K of John's) to buy a pair of plane tickets. Where? Well, →
Euro Trip Day 37: Auschwitz: A world I can only envision in black and white
**Disclaimer: As the post title should indicate, this is kind of a downer of a post. Don't say I didn't warn you. Only for a bit, though -- then it perks up towards the end.** Sunday July 11th, we got up early and got our bags packed, then took them to the train station and stuffed them in a locker so →
Euro Trip Day 33: Rugs with guns and trains with bunks
Wednesday, July 7th started somewhat busy as we went to run some errands and then head back to our hostel and proceed to conduct the now-usual jigsaw of trying to fit all of our stuff into our backpacks. We got packed up and went to the train station to get our tickets for the night train to Krakow, put the →
Euro Trip Day 26: Last stamp day of the trip :-(
Today was our last stamp day of the trip, and I'm oddly sad about it. Honestly, I should have realized it'd be when we crossed into Hungary, but I just wasn't thinking about it. What's a stamp day? It's any day I get a new stamp in my passport. Technically, this isn't even a NEW stamp, since I already have one →
Euro Trip Day 23: Sarajevo to Zagreb
This post is coming a bit late because it seems like our internet access always seems to die on us in the evening, which is when I'd prefer to be sitting around working on things like reservations for upcoming cities and blog posts and the like. In any case, most Zagreb museums are closed on Mondays, for some reason (we →
Euro Trip Day 0: Waiting for our first train of many
Trip Day 0: Waiting for our first train of many, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. My goal this trip is to post a picture a day, so that I'm forced to think and write about some of this as it's happening, rather than waiting until I get home to look at my pictures and reflect. I mean, geez, I never did blog →
Herbie goes to Sacramento
Y'all seen the Herbie movies? The REAL ones, not the cheezy knock-off from a few years back? I always loved those movies. I've seen this car on my way home from work a handful of times, but I've never been able to get a picture of it before. Today two fortunate events conspired to help me finally get a picture -- →
I love Tower Bridge
(Pssst -- go to the main page of my blog and check out my new header pics, then leave a comment here letting me know what you think!) :-) One of Sacramento's more distinct landmarks is the lovely art deco Tower Bridge, which spans the Sacramento River and leads to the state Capitol building. While I've driven across it, I for →
I think I've covered all the bases–correct me if I'm wrong
I was mulling over my love of transportation and transportation-related pictures (please read that in a Hank Hill voice, if you know what I'm talking about) and realized that I think I've pretty much covered all of the bases with regards to transportation. I mean, I have: . . . . . . . . . . . What else am I missing? Help me out here! .
My Rebel rebelled… but I still got some cool pics
This past Sunday morning, I got up before dawn, got into my car, and made the two-hour drive to San Francisco Airport to do something I've wanted to do for a very long time -- take pictures of planes. Now, if you've been around this blog or my Flickr for any length of time, you may realize that I love transportation. →
Fire truck
Here's one last one from Gladding, McBean. They used this fire truck to ferry people from the factory back to the tour meeting area. So neat.
A post in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day
Even though it's International Talk Like A Pirate Day, I'm not going to write in Pirate-ese. While I know the intention is to be silly, I still feel a bit too silly to do so. So instead I'll post the pictures I took this summer in London of the replica of Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind that sits on the →
Reno Balloon Race, Day 2
Here are the rest of the pictures from the Reno Balloon Race. I didn't take nearly as many on Sunday, mostly because I wanted to just sit in one place (ok, more or less) and enjoy. I'm still working on my grand plan to get to ride in one of the balloons next year during the Mass Ascension--the race organizers →
The Great Reno Balloon Race, Day 1
Last week I decided more or less on the spur of the moment to go to The Great Reno Balloon Race. Both of my photography groups were going, and I figured it sounded like fun, so why not? I mean, it's not like I never go anywhere fun... ;-) Seriously though, I'm SO GLAD I went!! Those of you who know →
Dawn Patrol
Teasers 001, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. I randomly decided this past week to take a road trip to Reno for the Reno Balloon Races--I've always liked hot air balloons (part of my ongoing fascination with transportation, I guess) and I thought it'd be neat to see. Anyway, I had to post just one picture while I'm working on processing the rest of →
Evergreen Supertanker
Ever since I read this Wired article Joel sent me about the Evergreen 747 Supertanker, I've been mildly obsessed with the thing. I have a somewhat buried fascination with planes(*) that only this morning as I was driving to work did I realize was my mom's fault. When I was a kid and we were driving to my grandparents' house, →
A few neat old odds and ends
Some neat old odds and ends from my visit to the California Auto Museum last Saturday: . . . . According to the docent I talked to, this was the highest-selling Model T ever a few years ago--I think he said it sold for $73,000. Nice. It's one of only a handful in existence of this type, apparently. One thing that makes it unique is →
1906 Ford Model K Touring Car
Like I mentioned yesterday, over the course of the next few days, I'll be posting some pictures I took of the classic cars at the California Auto Museum this past Saturday. Normally I'll mix things up, like I did yesterday, but today I'm sticking with only one car, because someone said that it made his week to see the engine →