I uploaded the photos I took of the Las Vegas strip today. A bit disappointing. Lesson number one was about timing. I mean, I think pictures of Las Vegas have to be taken at night. Daylight and Las Vegas just don’t fit together in my mind. But I didn’t plan…
The High Rollers scooter rally claims to have the largest scooter ride in the nation: a ride to the Hoover Dam that supposedly involves close to a thousand scooters. I have no idea if that was the case. That ride was all about going as fast as one possibly could…
So TheServerSide.com‘s parent company, TechTarget, has taken some of us folks at Oracle out to the ballgame. Twice. The first time, I mainly went to hang out with Dennis. I figured we would have decent seats, but I had no idea how good they would actually be. They were dugout…
This new year, I didn’t make any resolutions, but I did set my priorities for the year. 2005 was perhaps the worst year of my life, between my father passing, six months of emotional and psychological abuse from my manager, and a roller-coaster relationship with my closest friend. So I…
The cloud forest itself was less photographically interesting to me. Though I was fascinated by the fill-me-ferns and the… shoot… I think it was a kind of bamboo. No. Shoot, I’ve forgotten but it has orange and black fruit the size of cranberries, the orange being unripe, but used to…
John, the proprietor of La Colina Lodge, set me up with a guide named Ricard. “Muy tranquilo” John assured me. John said Ricardo was a descendant of the first Quakers who settled at Monteverde. Ricardo was muy tranquilo. Posiblemente un poquito mas tranquilo que yo prefiere. But he sure could…
Had a frustrating Manuel Antonio experience. I spent four hours hiking and only saw an agouti. For maybe six seconds. Most interesting thing all morning were the spreading roots of a tree. It was so amazing, the place was totally dead–as compared to yesterday when I was bumping into critters…
Good hunting in Manuel Antonio today. Right off the bat I encountered squirrel monkeys. Had some trouble with my Better Beamer and flash. I thought the flash only worked on “A,” but today it needed to be on TTL. So much for practicing in my apartment. The Better Beamer kept…
