Posted in Travel on Aug 17th, 2019
[photos: flickr – Grand Teton NP] [photos: flickr – Yellowstone NP] I’ve wanted to visit Yellowstone (Yellastone) for a while. I know of at least two people that have been this summer so I finally decided to go for it. Watching the Yellowstone TV show also inspired me, despite it being filmed nowhere near the […]
Posted in Travel on Aug 26th, 2018
[photos: flickr – Yosemite] A couple of weeks ago a friend passing through Yosemite informed me the smoke had cleared up, highways and campgrounds were open again. In theory this meant there should be a lot of campsites available from to all the recent cancellations due to the park closure. I sat on this for […]
Posted in Travel on Aug 19th, 2018
[photos: flickr – Death Valley] [bonus video: Death Valley hyperlapse hwy 190 to Furnace creek] Last weekend was a new moon and it happened to coincide with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I thought “great! an excuse to go out to Death Valley and take photos of it!” The trip turned out to […]
Posted in Travel on Jul 9th, 2018
[photos: flickr – Lava Beds Revisited] [photos: flickr – Crater Lake NP] I was looking at a map of Oregon thinking I should go explore the central and eastern part of the state. I spotted Crater Lake and it reminded me I wanted to go there. Google Maps had suggested an alternate route there through […]
Posted in Travel on Jun 28th, 2018
[photos: flickr – Eastern Sierra] [photos: flickr – Mono Lake] The Tioga pass through Yosemite finally opened up in the latter part of May, so I wanted to go check out things on the other side of the park. It’s a shortcut, otherwise I’d have to go up to Tahoe then head south, or down […]
Posted in Travel on Mar 22nd, 2018
[photos: flickr – Death Valley snow, stars, Ballarat] [photos: flickr – Death Valley jets] I bought myself a new wide-angle lens for my birthday this week and it was a new moon phase, so I used it as an excuse to go out to Death Valley again and make photos of stars last weekend. A […]
Posted in Travel on Feb 23rd, 2018
Actually my first time watching any sort of rocket launch in person. A friend urged me to go watch one of the Space Shuttle launches before the program ended but I never did. (I did get to see the Shuttle Endeavor flyover at Facebook in 2015). I don’t know why I haven’t been down to […]
Posted in Travel on Feb 17th, 2018
The 16th of January I drove out to Death Valley for a few days. Last time I camped up at Wildrose, this time I camped at the NPS campground at Stovepipe Wells. The weather was perfect, a little cool at night, and a little warm during the day. Really not much point to the trip, […]
Posted in Travel on Feb 12th, 2018
Roadtrips have been kinda light the past few months, I went out to Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley a couple of weeks ago. I should write about it, but I’ve forgotten most of what I did. This story happened last summer as I was driving across Nevada in the middle of the night. So far […]
Posted in Travel on Oct 19th, 2017
I forget how I came across it, probably Reddit, but I watched the movie Command and Control. It was a documentary focused on an accident in 1980 where a Titan II missile exploded in the silo outside of Damascus, Arkansas (wiki article). I was surprised I’ve never heard of the incident before because I grew […]
