The Adventures of Travel Penguin

M Cactus have rather strong natural defenses, with sharp spines protecting them from damage.  And yet this cactus is scarred from the bi...

This was taken in the mid 1970's.  The camera is either a Cannon Ftb, or a Konica T3.  I bought my first Cannon F-1 in 1976 when I was...

Why don't we all live in houses that look like this?  I have never lived in a "modern home" but I have long loved the modern...

This is a scan of a slide I took in the 1970's, a dried memory of dried flowers.  Looking at it reminds me of the farm.  It was farm l...

I spent a bit of time in airports last year.  Some are nice, some are not, sometimes airports are fun, often they are just a place to pass...

Midway, Kentucky, is midway between Lexington and Frankfort.  It is an old railroad town, a water stop in the steam fired days.  The trac...

Grab a seat on the outside of a San Francisco cable car and hang on as the cars go up and down the hills.  Just watch out for truck doo...

I want people to look at me and think, not "what a sweet old man," but, "what is he up to now?"   No getting around...

If the first Oldsmobile wasn't big enough for you, I bought a second one, even larger.  It had belonged to a women I worked with, she ...

I have been a runner, twice in my life.  The first time was in my late teens early 20's, my weight had ballooned and I started runnin...

I was born in a place with really no diversity.  Despite my parents trying to be modern, the discussions of diversity from my childhood s...

The crystal is half a set, when my first spouse and I we split, we split the set.  I have hauled it around, seldom used it.  Looking ba...

Two days after Christmas, the movers delivered the stuff from the house in Kentucky.  Not a lot of furniture, but more boxes than I can co...

We were over in National Harbor recently, NH is directly across the Potomac River from home.  It is home to several nice hotels, restauran...

I recently had an opportunity to wander around a Boeing 747.  The 747 is simply massive.  It is hard to imagine building something the siz...

The top image is one of my all time favorites from the 1970's, it is my cousin Lysle at about 15 months of age.  The bottom image is...

Yesterday was a snow day in DC. I remember snow days as a kid, they are not the same as an adult.  Work still needs to be done, and stack...

History tells us that FDR faced a lot of challenges in his adult life.  He had great difficulty standing or walking.  Yet he was a charis...

Once a year or so I do a blog post about blogging.  So here we go.  1: How long have you been blogging or reading blogs?  2: How many ...

Look at the finger, what do the details tell us.  The middle fingers have marks in them from molding the wax, the end of the index finger ...