Four Exotic Cats and a Bear

Photos from a recent trip… and a story or two. I know, a zoo seems so un-exotic, doesn’t it? When you’ve been to the tropics of Bali, the vast snowy Himalayas, and spent time spinning around the chaos of Kathmandu, going to see a…

Travel In My Own Town

Last night I did something out of character. I went out to be unsocial. I spent over an hour in Seattle rush hour traffic (alone) so I could sit in a room full of people I didn’t know, and not talk to them. Once…

Mt Agung Night Hike

One of our first nights in Bali we decided to forgo sleep and hike all night instead. We left at 10 pm and worked through the night to reach the top by sunrise. Once we reached a ridge we looked back through the darkness…

Bali Rice Hike

I still don’t know if this is something that only I love, or if it strikes most people, how beautiful and essential rice fields are. I’ve gone on about it in a past post, so this is the photo tour of the rice hike…

Forty-Two

A small departure again today. A few of my girlfriends have taken it upon themselves to educate me in baseball movies (I had seen a grand total of one baseball movie, ever in my life, I was in need) and that’s what we’ve been…