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book – a decade of Burning Man photos
This may be the closest I ever get to the famous desert festival.
Barbara Traub’s new book Desert to Dream is an unprecedented photographic record of a decade of Burning Man celebrations. Contributions from filmmaker Les Blank, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, Leonard Nimoy and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti …
10 Years of Burning Man – photos – Wired magazine
If interested in the book for one of your alternative friends:
book – Marching Powder
Published 2003, this is a shocking expose of a lax Bolivian prison in La Paz. Backpackers bribe guards to stay the night inside & do drugs!
Seems tourists are no longer allowed into the party prison in 2006. BBC published a photo journal on the jail.
PEI CFAs
The CFAs (Come From Aways) after a gymnastics coaches course were taken on tour to Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
We took in the beach and later visited the home of Anne of Green Gables.
Actually, she was just a character in a novel. This must be the home of the author, Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Actually, Lucy Maud lived nearby. This is a restoration of a farm which inspired the novel — for the benefit of Japanese tourists.
Anne of Green Gables
33 more photos on Flickr
The best highlight of the trip for me was wandering the quiet seaside village of North Rustico.
» next travelogue post on this trip – PEI hospitality
a Pearl of a phone
And today, there’s a new sweet-spot champion, a do-everything phone that comes closer to the bull’s-eye than anything before it: the BlackBerry Pearl.
In a Sea of Cellphones, a Pearl – New York Times
I’m still searching for the ultimate phone. David Pogue almost has me convinced on the Pearl. I do need to check Mac compatibility. And so far it is only available from T-mobile in the States.
If only Apple would announce their iPhone.
biking Prince Edward Island
Unexpectedly I found time to bike a day on the new “rails to trails” path on PEI.
It’s an ideal way to see this rustic, rural Province.
A sidetrip took me to the north coast beaches and Dalvay-by-the-Sea, built 1896, in Prince Edward Island National Park.
One day I will return to do bike the entire 470km Confederation Trail.
» next travelogue post on this trip – PEI CFAs
iceberg photo
Are icebergs the most beautiful thing on the planet?
I thinks so. Here’s a great one.
This image was produced in 1999 by Ralph A. Clevenger, a professional nature and underwater photographer who is also a member of the faculty of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. As Mr. Clevenger explained, this image is not a single photograph but a composite of four different photographs (not all taken in the same place).
source – Snopes.com
a day in New Brunswick
New Brunswick was on “the list” since Rocco raved about the Province. He owns a beach house there.
I mentally drafted versions of this post while standing hopelessly trying to hitchhike to the Bay of Fundy.
Rocco bears the full brunt of my gratitude:
“New Brunswick is a pretty bog infested with mosquitos and profane, obese, chain-smoking, beer-swilling unwed mothers. The public transportation sucks … – disappointed in New Brunswick”
I had hoped to write-up one of the major hikes, especially Fundy Trail Footpath. But I never got there.
Still, I must concede we had one great day in a rent-a-car touring to Kouchibouguac National Park and Shediac.
24 more New Brunswick photos on Flickr
» next travelogue post on this trip – biking Prince Edward Island
welcome Liam Burgess
The proud father reports that “Liam Isaac Emil was born in Saskatoon on Thursday, August 31, 2006 (one month early, but luckily one day AFTER father Dave’s Ph.D. proposal defense and as mother Jenn was just starting on the mend from a cold).
Mother and baby are doing very very well and we have returned home from the hospital.
Father is doing fine, too.”
More photos will be posted on the family website: theBurgesses.ca
Rick McCharles 