This past April we returned to South America. There were two impetuses for this trip. First, our Bend friends Andy & Marcia asked us to join them for a week’s stay at a wine country Finca in Mendoza, Argentina. And together we decided to also visit Bolivia and Buenos Aires. In addition I had obtained […]
Trip to Portugal & France
Martha and I scheduled 5 weeks at our shared Provencal house in October & November and we decided to tack on couple of weeks in Portugal beforehand. Some friends had raved about walking Portugal’s Rota Vicenta a year earlier, so we decided to follow in their footsteps (literally). I only took my pocket-sized Sony RX100 […]
New Pocket Camera
I just purchased a new Sony RX100 Mark III model to replaced my 2 year old original RX100. Although the new camera’s sensor is exactly the same as the old one’s, there were three principal reasons for getting the new model: The Mark III has an electronic viewfinder (EVF) — I found it very difficult […]
Day Hike around Broken Top
I just published a set of images and panoramas that were taken on a Labor Day Weekend day hike around Broken Top. We hiked from the Broken Top trailhead off of FS Road 370 to the unnamed lake on Broken Top’s northeast side. We then came back around and continued up into the crater on […]
Trip to Southern Utah/Northern Arizona
Portland friend Bob and I took a short week-long trip to Zion Nat’l Park, the Antelope Slot Canyons near Page, and North Coyote Buttes’ The Wave area. The impetus for the trip was Bob’s successful snatching of a hard-to-get Wave permit back in March. Zion National Park. Given the Great Basin’s high temperatures and Utah’s […]