September 6, 2017 - The smoke from the fires set in and would follow us for the rest of our time in the mountains. You can see the...

September 5, 2017 - Ok, this happened. We were driving down a small road and this big guy popped out. I never knew Elk were so large. Of...

September 4, 2017 - "....the beauty of the world" - Hamlet There is so much here. It is hard to take in with something so trivial like a...

September 23, 2017 - We made it to it to Field, Canada in Yoho National Park. This is shot is outside our Air BNB. It is so hard to...

March 25, 2019 - Buying a new car is no fun. It's a lot of money and it sort of feels like visiting India again. Everything is a...

September 2, 2017 - Hard to see in this shot, but these are salmon swimming upstream. We passed this stream on the way to a market this...

September 1, 2017 - More from the balcony this morning as the sun comes up. This area has an interesting history. It started out as...

August 31, 2017 - I am no connoisseur of wine. In fact I know almost nothing about the subject. However the idea that Canada would...

August 30, 2017 - This is a very hippie/hipster town. At least the neighborhood we are in reflects that vibe. This is a shot of the...

August 29, 2017 - This is the biodome in Queen Elizabeth Park. It is full of exotic birds, parrots , etc. The weather turned on us a bit....

August 26, 2017 - We visited 'Stanley Park' today. It is huge - 404 hectares of visual splendor. It is North of downtown Vancouver. 'The...

August 25, 2017 - We took a walk around the city today. This is "Gas town". In 1850 a bar was opened on the forested shoreline of Burrard...

August 24, 2017 - In 1952 in Dublin, Ireland, Erwin Schrodinger gave a lecture advancing the notion in Physics of the existence of...

August 21, 2017 - The pictures below show our family as we viewed, along with tens of millions of other people, the total eclipse of the...

May 23, 2017 - After 6 weeks, 45 plus posts, and walking over 225 miles here, we are bringing this journey of Episode I to a close. ...

May 22, 2017 - We found this place by accident today. We went for a walk in our neighborhood and underneath a large bridge there was this...

May 19, 2017 - We left Edinburgh today for a day trip to Stirling Castle. This area is as rich in history as any in England. The castle...

May 18, 2017 - This lovely park in the center of Edinburgh divides the new and old town. It was not always what it seems. This was the...

May 17, 2017 - Today started out well enough. The sun was out (briefly) and we decided to walk the Leith River to the port, see the coast...

May 16, 2017 - In the 16th century Edinburgh was a walled city. This pub marks the gate where it stood and as far as the citizens were...