I finally too up an offer from my high school buddy to visit the Dallas Arboretum. Jeff is a volunteer docent and was able to give me free admission and a tour. The weather was cool and clear so I met him up there when the park opened yesterday morning.…
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So it’s Sunday afternoon. I didn’t get any sleep on the plane. I walked around Miraflores and Parque Kennedy until my hotel was ready. I finally got in my room but my bag was still MIA. The front desk staff had sent it to the wrong room.…
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For the second year in a row I was asked to speak at a conference in South America. This year’s conference was held in Lima, Peru. My trip started out mid afternoon on Saturday with a flight on Aeromexico. Company rules dictate choosing the least expensive airline.…
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In the middle of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden there is a Japanese Garden. You can pay $5 and wander through the trails and over the bridges to a little tea house among the cedar and bamboo trees. They don’t open until 10 and they close before the reset of the Botanic Garden.…
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In Minnesota for the first time on business I had the opportunity to take a few pictures. On my first day I was able to explore the Minnesota Streetcar Museum, the Mall of America, Minnehaha Falls, Mill City Museum, and St.…
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The Internet is all a-Twitter today over a couple of escaped llamas. Let the memes fly. Below are some pictures I took last May in Bogotá, Colombia of some llama’s making a living letting the tourists take their pictures.
One of my favorite photo-walks was in May, 2011 to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array near Socorro, New Mexico. I was working in Albuquerque and decided to head out there before the visitor center closed so I could get pictures at sunset.…
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Does finding yourself on Google Street View count as a selfie? In May 2014 I was hanging out in front of the Catedral de Sal de Zipaquirá, near Bógota, Colombia, when I noticed what was obviously a Street View car driving by.…
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In November 2013 I traveled to Salt Lake City. I took a drive up to Montpelier, Idaho via US-30 through Wyoming and back around Bear Lake and back to SLC. It is very dramatic countryside. Flying in to SLC you can see Bingham Canyon Mine.…
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Here are a few select pictures from my October 2014 trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I traveled there with a coworker for a conference that was held right downtown. We took the opportunity to walk the city a bit. The streets were busy that weekend with an Octoberfest.…
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Driving through Dallas a couple weeks ago I noticed a new building next to the highway across from the
West End Marketplace and
Dallas World Aquarium that wasn’t there before. The architecture was unique although it reminded me of the museum at the
9/11 Memorial in New York.…
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In November 2014 I travelled to Charlotte, North Carolina. I think it was my first trip to Charlotte. My previous experience of North Carolina was seeing it from I-75 behind billboards reminding me how many exits were left until we reached
South of the Border, a tourist trap in South Carolina that took advantage of the differences in state laws to sell fireworks.…
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In July 2012 we took a little family vacation to Austin. My son had just graduated, was heading off to college and did not join us. My daughter was able to bring a friend. We got a condo right on the river, or at least where the river used to be.…
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