Merry Halloween! In Japan!
When I was in Japan last year, I took a few pictures of decor for the upcoming Halloween holiday. You can read about the emergence of Halloween in Japan here.
Category: travel
Fall is Always a Sad Time, And This Past Weekend I Was In Asheville For a Funeral
Fall is always a sad time of year. The days get shorter. The leaves fall off the trees. Sometimes you end up going to the funeral of your 86 year-old great aunt who lived on the same farm her entire life.
Tall ships in Riga
The one great thing about the insane levels of mold in the Austin air: I’m motivated to sit down, photo edit, and upload the pictures I spend a lot of time taking. Here’s another...
Riga Near Sunset, July 2013
As many of you know, when I’ve gone to Riga, Latvia in the summer, I’ve spent a lot of time roaming the streets and taking pictures. Below is one of the pictures that I...
Is There Anything Better Than a Really Good Sunset?
Is there anything better than a really good sunset? Below are two of my favorite sunset pictures from this summer.
People love a panda! Panda art makes traveling less sucky!
The panda art at Charles de Gaulle airport, July 2013. In honor of the surviving giant panda cub at who was recently born at the National Zoo in Washington, DC , I couldn’t help thinking...
Go Soliciting!
When I was a child, I was very confused by the “No Soliciting” signs. Why on earth would people hang a sign banning lawyers? It turns out that I’d just read too many British...
Changes in Riga, and at the Positivus Festival
After first coming to Riga in 1999, then arriving back here in 2008 to find that, really, not many things had changed to my American eyes, I find the current speed of change in...
Photo: Spiral Staircase in Latvia
In the last few weeks I’ve been spending time sorting through the treasures I’ve found on various planets, upgrading various bits of hardware, and dealing with a lot of off camera hooha that has to...
Hong Kong Kitty
This is one of the many cats in the Western District of Hong Kong, ironically the least “western” area of Hong Kong.
