My Good Pursuits
Other SITES of Mine
Featured Big trips
January 2010
Winter Road Trip Down South to SF
January ’08
Featured Small Trips
Sept 2009
California’s “Canals of Venice”
Sept 2008
April 2008
Featured Pictures
Atop Torre Giralda at the Catedral in Sevilla, Spain were my three favorite ladies.
Featured MOMENT
Links of interest
FAVORITE SITES
RECENT Big TRIPS
12 Great Hikes - National parks in western mountains where I hiked great trails.
Wales across England to Scotland - Lots of outdoor adventure in the UK.
Charlottesville Day Trips - Excursions from my base in southern Virginia.
America’s Longest Road - Along Route 2, the U.S.’s northern-most highway.
Five day drive from Tijuana, MX to Victoria.
Down to the Deep South - The south, the only path to cross the U.S. in winter.
Red Rocks to Blue Waters - A bridging trip tying NM to SF and then home.
New Mexico - Extensive exploring of a State I know little about.
Toying with Tech - Mixing it up with a bike, tech toys, and time.
Westward Ho! - A 10,000 mile road trip focusing on National Parks and Monuments.
Maine Lighthouses - Finding and shooting 20+ lighthouses along Maine.
Oregon Trek - Driving 3,000 miles round to see the “Other Oregon”.
Spelunking Loop - Off to KY to visit Mammoth in cave territory.
Dave Koz Cruise - A Caribbean cruise with lots of jazz and pix mixed in.
JazzTrax Festival - Jazz concerts in paradise and the cutest island town.
England and Paris - Trains to 28 English cities then shoe leather in Paris.
Desert Southwest - Along the deep south to SF and back along Route 66.
National Parks - A quick trip through nine parks along eleven scenic drives.
Hostelling Scotland: Three weeks driving 3,800 miles in Caledonia.
Historic Route 66 - Meandering down from Chicago to Santa Monica.
Route 66 with Kelsey - My girl and I drove down my favorite road end-to-end.
Trans-Canada Highway - Driving the world’s longest national highway.
West Coast Adventure - Skirting the continent from Seattle to Tijuana.
Southeastern Loop: Along the gulf coast and up the Mississippi River.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Last year I built a chair from a single piece of 2x4 wood, eight feet long. It was a one-page project detailed in MAKE magazine and allowed me to use a variety of tools and joining techniques. At the time I thought it would be a great project for Kelsey to learn from but not till today did it happen.
The reason it took till now? Safety training at our makerspace got her excited.
Last night Kelsey...
The reason it took till now? Safety training at our makerspace got her excited.
Last night Kelsey...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Fab Lab model originated at MIT’s Media Lab around 10 years ago and has since grown to a network of over 100 facilities worldwide. Each fab lab is a small scale workshop for digital fabrication where ideas are modeled in software and cheaply prototyped using computer controlled (CNC) tools. Sounds exotic, I know, but it’s real and potentially the biggest thing to hit manufacturing in a...
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Since Maker Faire I’ve been fascinated with the burgeoning variety of hobby spaces where tinkerers gather. Begun typically after a chance meeting of a few enthusiasts, the first period of time is often spent meeting periodically at a local coffee shop with free wifi. The ambitions bloom but financial resources are always a constraint. Finally, enough people want to make it happen and they band...
Monday, February 20, 2012
Twenty five years ago I graduated from undergraduate with a degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ... and left to spent a career in information services. Recently I learned about new fabrication tools (3D printing, laser cutting, CNC milling) and became intrigued. So much did I want to understand this new landscape of production technology that I decided to invest six weeks of my life...
Sunday, February 19, 2012
This trip was special. On this trip I was joined not only by my daughters Courtney and Kelsey but also by my wife Beth! When the lure is San Francisco and it’s snowy cold back home then I guess they can be coaxed.
They came in two waves toward the end of my time at TechShop. Since this was Courtney’s first visit we really hit the town. I took her to many, many places around San Francisco. We...
They came in two waves toward the end of my time at TechShop. Since this was Courtney’s first visit we really hit the town. I took her to many, many places around San Francisco. We...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Twice previously I’ve tried to get to the top of Mount Lemmon but its 25 mile drive, its 6,400 foot climb, its weather all proved obstacles given my time constraints. That wasn’t going to happen this time. Today I was making it my hightest priority; other priorities would be sacrificed.
So why? What’s the big deal with Mount Lemmon? I suppose I’ve become intrigued by sky islands, where one...
So why? What’s the big deal with Mount Lemmon? I suppose I’ve become intrigued by sky islands, where one...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
In Connecticut for the holidays with some time on our hands? No problem, Kelsey and I decided to take a trip up the coast. Themes were to be the lighthouses and historic sites along the Boston Post Road from New London, CT to Watch Hill, RI and that’s what we did.
I suppose my first surprise was at Fort Griswold where for the first time I saw the site of a military action that Benedict Arnold led...
I suppose my first surprise was at Fort Griswold where for the first time I saw the site of a military action that Benedict Arnold led...
Monday, December 5, 2011
Kelsey and I left Saturday morning for NYC. We arrived around 2:00PM and proceeded to walk from Macy’s on 34th Street up to and meandering through Central Park to visit Columbia University before heading to our hostel on 103rd and Amsterdam. The following morning we took a subway up and out of Manhattan to just over the river in The Bronx. From there we spent 5.5 hours walking down Broadway the...
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Appalachian Trail: Within the
Shenandoah National Park is a
great slice of the AT I hiked.
Hurricane Ridge: Remarkable
view atop Olympic Mountains.
Trans-Canada Highway: Along
the world’s longest national road.
Marion, Indiana: College of my
dad’s first teaching experiences.
Granddaddy’s 90th: Amazing
milestone for an amazing man.
accidental find of wonderful art.
Dr Ray Good: Visiting Geoff at
Ft. Jackson’s Operating Room.
Great project for a great cause.
Montclair Swim Meet: My first
time out in an open water event.
Finally, they’re happily married!
Solar Decathelon: Housing and
transport powered only by sun.
The iPad and You: Explaining why size matters in a tablet PC.
Good Pursuits Radio: It’s only
natural that I’d try doing this.
Little Programs I Love: Video
presentation to the Apple Pi.
