The 24 Hours of LeMons is a two day endurance race for $500 cars. Last Spring, Eric and his roommates decided to enter this October's race using John's rusty 1995 Cadillac as the donor vehicle. I'll admit I was skeptical that they'd be able to do everything necessary to be ready for the race, what [...]
We just returned from a 10 day trip in England. I shot a bit over 1,000 pictures and put 61 of them on Flickr and in the travelog - a 6% rate which seems pretty typical. The full travelog is at www.anirama.com/england and the Flickr set is here. Here are six of my favorites. [...]
SF Bay baylands, shot from a Southwest Airlines flight after having just taken off from San Jose. I'm a sucker for the colors and patterns. More about the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center.
I spent the late afternoon at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve near Half Moon Bay, CA. The tidepools are locally famous, and there was a very low tide at 5:30pm today - right about sunset. I thought I could get some nice tidepool creature shots and a Pacific Ocean sunset all in one trip. The [...]
For Eric's day we went to the LUNAR monthly high-power rocket launch at Snow Ranch in the Sierra foothills. By being so far away from civilization they can get clearance to go to 15,000 feet. Today had a low ceiling, so there were only a few opportunities for the high-power engines. The rocket [...]
Every year between Christmas and New Years we do 'Family Days' where each member of the family is responsible for a day's schedule. For my day we went to the USS Hornet, a retired aircraft carrier moored in Alameda. We spent about four hours on board touring the ship - which wasn't enough to see [...]
Eric turned 21 in early November and we went back east to celebrate with him for a weekend. We took a road trip up to Maine to collect another state for everyone, and stopped at the lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, by Portland, ME. This picture of the boys is being used [...]
Taken at Santa Clara University in the late afternoon.
Teaching has its definite perks. We took our CMU ETC students on a field trip to learn more about the Bay Area - and how better than from a couple thousand feet overhead. Airship Ventures to the rescue! We took off from Oakland, headed over the Bay Bridge, past SF, around Angel Island and back [...]
We hit the Salinas Air Show again this year. The Blue Angels closed the show - it's always exciting to see them. Also present were some great vintage planes, like the P-51 Mustang, wingwalkers, the A10 Warthog (my favorite) and of course Robosaurus eating up some cars. You can see the full set on Flickr. [...]
