I didn’t have enough local knowledge, or at least, preferences, so I asked Martin & Peter to select a good place to hike near to York, and they chose Sutton Bank. We discovered the trail from the visitor centre led to what a few years back was voted by »
It being Sunday, I had checked that the bus and ferry would actually be running. I hadn’t checked how often the bus was running, and so when I didn’t get moving fast enough, I found myself with an hour and half wait for the next bus. The bus itself »
This is a voyage of discovery, just what can be done. We haven’t seen our friend Melanie for over 5 years, since she and her family moved back to Vancouver. We’ve tried to meet a few times over the years, but something always crops up. Even this time, I »
I took the bus up, literally straight up, to Lynden. All this long road is on the flat, and then when you get to Lynden, it just rises slightly; good move, there were more than a few fields waterlogged along the way. From the back of Front St, I »
I traveled down to see my friend Paul. He had been making various experiments and discoveries regarding how our vision works with how we print, and how to prepare files accordingly for printing. How people see, and how it relates to all we do with our photographs, is a »
I wanted to test out how feasible it was, not just to decide to have a weekend on one of the San Juan Islands, but to get there and back from Bellingham using public transport. For the most part, we can say it was easy. Depending how you get »
The hotel at Garvault is claimed to be the most remote in the UK. So if you are forever stopping to take photos along the way, you are likely to arrive late. All the more wondrous that I did not know the owner planned to have all guests sit »
I flew to Inverness on the 6th, with Jill to follow on the 11th. The trip itself is to introduce Jill to some of the highlights I found on my recent trips: Glen Affric, Skye, Ullapool; nothing original there I guess. I traveled early, to make my own mini-NC500, »
We hadn’t originally planned to rent a car in Eugene, since the trip was envisaged as being car free, unless we were with friends or family. Hence we returned the car and took the Amtrak from Eugene to Portland. The Willamette Valley is quite flat, though you can see »
