
A gallery: A walk in Portland
Travel adventures and just plain boring stuff

This year I am trying to become a better photographer and one of the ways is to just shoot more. As a way to get out and force myself to shoot is buy publicly declaring I am going to publish one photo a week for the entire year. I’ve waited to tell everyone until I posted 8 weeks straight. Today I did just that. If we want to encourage me or just watch have...

Here’s a good way to make a weekend trip feel like a real vacation : start with a three hour train ride. Going by train has neither the TSA induced queuing and undressing of flyng, nor the traffic jams and potty stops of driving. Just show up, trade in your ticket for a scrap of paper with your destination scrawled on magic marker and your seat number on a sticker, and relax. If you’re...