On the last big road trip (April-May) were:
• The Lost Coast Trail, California
• Lower Muley Twist Trail, Utah
• Grand Canyon, Arizona
The Lost Coast Trail, California – trip report and photos
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Lower Muley Twist Trail, Utah – trip report and photos
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Grand Canyon, Arizona – trip report and photos
My buddy Dean works out of Victoria, B.C.
His photos are inspiring me to wed. … Just to be able to hire him as photographer.
My parents live in Parksville.
On my most recent visit I captured some pics of the famous tidal flats, what I remember best about the town from when we vacationed here in the 1970s.
There were tens of thousands of birds here at this time of year, end of March.
more of my photos tagged Parksville
Mom, Dad, Pete and myself arrived safely back in Parksville, B.C. after a month. No major problems. How about that?
It was our first time driving to Baja, California, an epic adventure.
We toured the peninsula right to Cabo. Then crossed to the mainland via the surprisingly good La Paz to Los Mochis ferry.
Returning via Needles, California, we visited my Uncle Bob Moore and his wife Lydia.
… note that his Flames flag is not yet at half mast. Incidentally, Needles is like many parts of California, an economic disaster. You could buy a mobile home in Bob’s river front park for $10,000. Pay $300/month rent. Play golf year round outside your door for $600/year.
Prices have dropped to almost zero. Yet nothing sells in Needles, CA. If you cross the river into Arizona, fuel prices drop from $3.60/gallon to $2.60/gallon.
The most beautiful sections of our driving tour, I thought, were the stark deserts of northern Baja and Nevada.
Driving to Baja is one of those epic trips that we’ll look back at fondly, while doggedly insisting that we’d never do it again.
Actually, I’ll be headed back to La Paz by air later this Spring for final installation of 3 new dental bridges. I’ve got temporaries now.
The Big Picture has done it again.
Check out the pics they posted of Shanghai preparing to host Expo 2010, May 1 to October 31st. (2010上海世界博览会)
more photos – Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010
I’ve started uploading my best pics from Loreto and surrounds.
We drove here on invitation from friends of my parents, Kip and Mary. Our first breakfast together:
Kip and Mary have many years been living part of the year on a boat in the Baja. They’re currently out of Puerto Escondido.
The skipper spends a lot of time …
… tinkering and swabbing the poop deck.
See all my Loreto photos, so far.
Almost all of my photos posted to flickr are in the “commons”.
They can be used by anyone, any way, any time for free providing they give attribution.
One was recently used by a company in PEI:
Another was used in a post by Why Go Peru.
Most of the flickr photos I use on my websites are Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-commercial, No derivatives.
That guy who always tries to ruin your perfect photo. He’s on Photobomb.
It reminds me of Awkward Family Photos.
Happy, happy. I’ve got this system running now.
I have only one computer, a laptop, backing up automatically to the cloud using Carbonite. My cost is less than $3.50 / month. Very reliable, though not 100% foolproof.
I am backing-up whenever I connect to the internet. And can restore a file or an entire laptop from anywhere in the world.
My old back-up system I’ve still got running, too: a 1TB hard drive using Time Machine software. I must physically attach the drive with a cable to do this second back-up.
If you don’t back-up, please don’t complain when you lose all your music and photos in a hard drive crash or by theft. You deserve it for not signing up for Carbonite or Mozy.
Rick McCharles 