A fabulous little rock grotto at the bottom of the Cleveland Dam. If you click on this picture, you will get to my Flickr photostream, with some other new photos and comments from my second day in Vancouver.
This is the view two blocks north of where I’m staying in Vancouver. This photo was taken with my crappy phone cam, and may end up being the only photo (of many) I took today which I post. I think the news of a cyclist’s death in Portland this morning has taken the wind out of my sails a bit. OR, it may be that all the rest of the photos really do suck! Hah!
Dear Portland,
This is how it’s done.
Your friend,
Vancouver, BC
Yesterday morning I went for a long walk from where I’m staying, through downtown and back.
If you’re interested, you can click this link and you will see a map of the walk. Wondered why I was so wiped out come the end of the day. Well, because it was a long freakin’ way, that’s why!
On my way, I noticed something amazing. If you look at this photo, you will see a tiny red dot in the middle of your screen, in that middle lane, all alone. It’s a cyclist. In a dedicated, protected-by-a-concrete-median bike lane across one of the major water crossings to get to and from downtown Vancouver. Mayor Sam, I think we have some things we could learn about bike-friendly from Vancouver.
PS if you click the image above, you will get to my photostream on Flickr, where there are a bunch more photos from my trip.
A couple of weeks ago, I decided it was time to get out of town for a bit. Initially, I thought it would be great to drive down the coast to someplace warm(er), like Monterey or San Diego (Sandy Eggo if you’re Steve Poltz). However, I decided because of time constraints to just limit myself to Bend, Crater Lake and the National Redwood Forest. This was my first time doing a totally solo road trip since 2001, and it felt good.
While I did bring my camera, my first priority was to just experience the trip without too much emphasis on capturing everything on pixels. Thus, there are less photos per day on this trip…but there are still some good ones I think.
The photos in this first post are not going to be in any particular order.
Here is sunset on the third day of my trip, as seen from the Redwood National Park scenic coastal drive, near Klamath CA:
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And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Last picture post, I left you with a photo of Hecata Head Lighthouse. Here’s another, from a slightly different vantage point:
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