After 3 wonderful weeks at our shared Chez Mirabel house in Provence, Martha and I drove to Toulouse where she linked up with a 10 day art workshop. And I then drove to northern Italy for 3 weeks of hiking in the Dolomites. The first two days were in Santa Maddalena (aka Santa Magdalena) in […]
India & Myanmar
Bend friend, Andy, and I spent 5 weeks in late January and February exploring India and Myanmar. The impetus was photographer Art Wolfe’s announcement last November of a 9 day tour of India’s Kumbh Mela Hindu festival and Ranthambore tiger reserve. Although India wasn’t at the top of my photography “bucket list”, the Khumb had […]
South America Trip
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 […]
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 […]