Nothing says “summer” and impending travel quite like buying a new camera. My old digital camera was a Sony Cyber-shot. It was a good camera, about three years old, but it developed a smudge spot on the interior of the lens that I could not fix. Rather than paying somebody about as much as I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Travel’
My New Camera
Posted in Photography, tagged Canon, Canon PowerShot SX260 HS, Digital cameras, Photography, Travel on May 26, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In God’s Country
Posted in America, Photography, Travel, tagged America, Asheville, Looking Glass Rock, North Carolina, Photography, Travel on May 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My friend the Brown Bear continues to taunt me with beautiful pictures of the North Carolina countryside taken during his regular fishing jaunts to nearby, yet secluded, streams. He says this view, from a vantage point in the mountains near Looking Glass Rock, reminds him of why he and his lovely wife decided to retire [...]
Hey, Big Brother
Posted in America, Music, Music videos, Travel, tagged America, Big Brother, Music, Music videos, O'Hare Airport, Rare Earth, Travel on May 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I was sitting in one of the countless terminals at O’Hare yesterday, waiting for my flight back to Columbus, when I heard a series of announcements from the Department of Homeland Security over the PA system. One reminded me of the 3-1-1 rules that apply to carrying liquids (no more than 3 ounces, in 1 [...]
The Last Concourse On The Left
Posted in Humor, Photography, Travel, Work, tagged airports, Hotels, Humor, Photography, Travel, Work on May 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Here are things that always — always! — happen whenever I am on a business trip and book an early morning return flight: 1. I get no sleep because I’m worried that, despite setting countless alarms and requesting a wake-up call, I’ll oversleep. 2. The only coffee packets for the hotel room brewpot are decaf. [...]
On A Plane With A Masked Female Passenger
Posted in Humor, Travel, tagged air travel, disease, Flu, Germs, Health, Humor, Hypochondriacs, Surgical masks, Travel on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On the first leg of my return flight today I traveled with a passenger who wore one of those white cotton masks covering her mouth and nose. Immediately I began to wonder: has there been an outbreak of an exotic disease somewhere in the world that I haven’t heard about? Or, was this woman just [...]
U.S.S. Mitscher
Posted in America, Photography, Travel, tagged America, Mississippi River, Navy, New Orleans, Photography, Ships, Travel, U.S.S. Mitscher on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As I mentioned earlier, it’s Navy Week in New Orleans. One of the stolid, gray Navy ships docked at the pier on the Mississippi River is the U.S.S Mitscher. As one of the polite, crisp, white-clad Navy officers who are everywhere around town patiently explained to me, the Mitscher is a guided missile destroyer that [...]
A Bourbon Street Wedding March
Posted in Humor, Photography, Travel, tagged Bourbon Street, Humor, Marriage, New Orleans, Photography, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Temptations, Travel, Weddings on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve stood on our third-floor balcony at the Royal Sonesta Hotel the past few days and watched a number of wedding parties go marching and dancing past on their way down Bourbon Street. Tonight’s wedding group was a particularly festive one, with some great music from a great band and a bridal party that was [...]
The National World War II Museum
Posted in America, Movies, Travel, World, tagged America, Beyond All Boundaries, Higgins Boats, Movies, Museums, National World War II Museum, New Orleans, Travel, World on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
New Orleans is home to the National World War II Museum. It’s an effort to remember and recognize the significance of a war that increasingly is being forgotten, with the passage of time and the passing of those who fought in history’s greatest conflict. The annual meeting I’m attending had a dinner at the Museum. [...]
A Streetcar Named . . .
Posted in Photography, Travel, tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, New Orleans, Photography, Streetcars, Travel on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently there is no longer a streetcar named Desire, but happily there still is a streetcar named Canal. The streetcars run at various points in New Orleans — along the riverfront, and from the riverfront past the French Quarter, which is where I took this photo — and their festive colors and sounds add a [...]
Bourbon Street, April 21, 2012, 1:30 a.m.
Posted in Humor, Photography, tagged Aibta, Bourbon Street, Cigars, Humor, New Orleans, Photography, Travel on April 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Few places in America, perhaps, can match Bourbon Street on a Friday night. The flood of humanity, the debauchery, the awesome, unrelenting, potentially debilitating drunkenness — this is what has made our country great. Well, perhaps not — but it certainly has made our country unique. The opportunity to smoke a cigar, drink Abita Amber [...]
Old Hickory At Jackson Square
Posted in Photography, Travel, tagged Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, French Quarter, Jackson Square, New Orleans, Photography, The War Of 1812, Travel on April 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The French Quarter’s Jackson Square is named after Old Hickory — Major General (and later President) Andrew Jackson. Jackson is forever linked to New Orleans because of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, where American forces defeated the British — even though the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of treaty weeks [...]
Mardi Gras Bike
Posted in Photography, Travel, tagged Beads, Bicycles, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Photography, Travel on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You see the cheap, colorful beads of Mardi Gras everywhere in the French Quarter. The third floor balcony of my hotel is stocked with bags of them to toss to drunken Bourbon Street revelers below. Tourists proudly wear them. They’re seen in odd and inaccessible locations — like perched on top of a sign or [...]
Jeanne d’Arc, Jeanne d’Or
Posted in Photography, Travel, tagged France, Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc, New Orleans, Photography, Travel on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As everyone knows, there is still a very strong French element to New Orleans. The connections to the city’s French past are found in the cuisine, in the name and architecture of the French Quarter, and even in statues found around the city. Joan of Arc is a popular subject — which is not surprising [...]
Tall Ships On The Father Of Waters
Posted in Photography, Travel, tagged Mississippi River, New Orleans, Photography, Sailing Ships, Ships, Travel on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Navy Week in New Orleans, and when I walked down to the Mississippi River for a stroll along the River Walk I discovered to my delight that a number of tall ships were docked along the pier. There is something remarkably appealing about large sailing ships, with their masts towering far above, furled sails, [...]
