These are my stories. Some may be new, some may be old, but I hope you will find them all interesting.
Empire Builder: Chicago to Essex This is Part 3 of my 6-part series covering my 11-day Amtrak trip around the western United States in May of 2006. Be sure to read about the planning and start of my journey from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles in Part 1 and …
Southwest Chief: Los Angles to Chicago This is Part 2 of my 6-part series covering my 11-day Amtrak trip around the western United States in May of 2006. Be sure to read about the planning and start of my journey from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles in Part 1. …
Pacific Surfliner: San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles From the Trainwacko Files The Trainwacko Files are stories from the journeys that I took by rail between 2005 and 2008. I had discovered model railroading in the early 1990s, and the logical progression from that was to become a certified Trainwacko. …
February saw us take two trips to the San Luis and Merced National Wildlife Refuges. February also was the month I finally upgraded my ten year old computer, so no uploads happened due to me getting my new system set up. In the first part of March we visited Morro …
Lions Lighthouse for Sight ShoreLine Aquatic Park in Long Beach, California. I had arrived in Long Beach by rail the night before I shot this photo back in 2007. On the way from San Luis Obispo, I had changed trains at Los Angeles Union Station and took some interior shots …
In the early days of the automobile, design was driven primarily by function and not a lot of thought was put into styling. Bodies on cars like the original Ford Model T remained unchanged for ten or more years – engine under a hood, body for the occupants – all …
Here are all of my new uploads from October, 2019 through the end of January, 2020. I normally try to post my latest additions monthly, but with September’s Mountain States Road Trip and with my wanting to finish my Thirty Years of Photography series, posting updates took a backseat to …
First off, I want to apologize for being so late on this last installment in my Thirty Years of Photography series – I had originally planned on having this all up by September of 2019. But then I went off to Yellowstone and had those 2,000 photos to dig through, …
Making Plans From August 31st to September 9th my companion and I took a trip to Craters of the Moon National Monument, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and the points connecting the three. We had purchased our reservations in January, and even then lodging in Yellowstone was almost …
You may have noticed that there were no “New Uploads” posts for September, October, or even November, and that I’ve fallen behind on my last entry into my “Thirty Years of Photography” series. That’s because in early September I took a trip to Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area. …
It seems like there’s never a shortage of rediscovered images. August was a particularly good month because I went through all of my old photos for my “Thirty Years of Photography” series. Donkey in Santorini, Greece. Hoover Dam, Highway 93, and the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. Plaque at Manzanar …
I took far more photos and made far more journeys in this decade than the previous two. Whether that’s from having better photo gear or finding a travel partner who set me on the road to visiting Alaska, Europe, Australia, the Caribbean, and more, I don’t know. Whatever the cause, …
