favorite daydreams

The trees of Deadvlei

One of the world's best photography spots, Deadvlei in Sossusvlei, Namibia, lives up to the hype. Where once a river ran, a drought and blowing sand from dunes covered this artery for life hundreds of years ago, and all that remain are these tree...

Talking about impermanence?

In China they have their way to practice the way of impermanence. Calligraph practice their art wiht water on the ground. The time it's done it already started to dry. bettre catch it up while it's done and by the bit because you hardly can get a...

Lincoln Park, Chicago

For a lovely view of the Chicago skyline, check out the shore of Lincoln Park. Just watch out for the fog---it can sneak up on you!

Top of the World-dusk outside San Jose

Get outside the usual neighborhoods in San Jose, and watch the city light up as the sun goes down! This photo was taken in a little suburban neighborhood near Fowler Creek Park.

Rendezvous and Ritual

Rendezvous - Michigan summers at South Haven beach. Picnic, Frisbee, friends, and lots of sunshine.

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Ritual - once a year, take part in a "Day of Gracious Living" - pause from work/stress & enjoy a good afternoon with good people.

Free Pass into Heaven

A very quaint, beautiful, TINY church, with no visible path, and certainly no gondola, to help you get there. I almost didn't notice it at first, from the top of the mountain.

If you made it to this Church on a day like this in Luzern, you would...

Swiss Adventure Playground?

A peculiar playground (perhaps?) that we floated over on our way up to the top of Mt Pilatus... Either a very rustic playground or a makeshift bootcamp obstacle course. Jury is still out on this one. Cute though!

Moto Picchu

If you're looking for an alternative to Hiking the Inca trail, consider renting motorcycles and finding your own way there. Armed with a couple of local maps two 400cc bikes, my travel buddies and I drove over 8,000 foot snowy mountain peaks and...

Great Wall

There's a reason this is one of the wonders of the world. No, it cannot be seen from outer space, but it is truly magnificent. When visiting China, avoid the super touristy hotspots. We visited a spot that locals preferred called MuTianYu, about...

Che Guevara Coffee

While in Cuba, I visited the nature reserve called Las Terrazas. There I found a coffee shop that served this capppuccino with a surprise cinnamon topping. With a specially designed stencil, the servers offer up a real Cuban coffee with an image...

Unlikley Art: Buenos Aires

Turning the corner onto Pasaje Zelaya in the Abasto area of Buenos Aires reveals a shocking array of colors in a celebration of all things Argentinian. The walls on the buildings here are covered in poetry, song lyrics, tango dancers, portraits of...

unlikely art: AZ mountain Mona

In the backstreets of the mile-high mining town of Bisbee, Arizona, some unlikely art: a stencil of Mona Lisa? blindfolded? framed by Buddhist philosophy? This is some of the street-art that inspires residents in this SE Arizona town to display...

Vice, or Just a Really Good Idea?

To those who don’t understand, a cup of coffee is nothing more than a vile brown bean juice - halitosis in a cup, with cream or without. Regular partakers, like so many addicts, sport trophies of stained teeth and caffeine shakes and brown drips...

Desert dwellers

For us, the vast dusty desert was a novelty act. We rode a camel. We dismounted and took a few photographs. We drank tea and pretended to be desert dwellers. But as we prepared to leave, I saw a sadness come over the local people's faces. It's...

Details of Life

Next time you think your job is tough, imagine sitting on concrete in this position for over eight hours a day. Note how the sculptor is holding the carved head with his foot!

This is real life. This isn't about wondering which book you should read...