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Ironman Texas 2012: Just Spectating IM Texas swim leader Brandon Marsh approaching swim finish IM Texas lead group "drafting" behind Marsh near swim finish I got up early to drive to the Woodlands to watch some of Ironman Texas today. A year ago, a group of friends More...
Cross-Country Colombia: Coffee Farmers, Mountains & Medellin As usual for me, the further I got from the main cities and main highways, the more interesting my visit to Colombia became. * * * My Hertz reservation for a small pickup truck got fouled up, leaving my More...
Scotland Stone Circles Can you say "Scottish Stone Circles" three times, fast? I can't. I included the picture with the dog in it mostly to give some perspective on the size of the big rocks that make up the Callanish (or Calanais) Stone More...
Scotland 2014: Lighthouses, Sheep, and Dead Economists Yes, I've been home from Scotland for a while, but I've got a few more batches of pictures to share. For 190 years, the Eilan Glas lighthouse has sat on the small peninsula off the Isle of Scalpay (a More...
Naga New Year on the Chindwin River, Burma This is where my Burma experience really started to get interesting. The core of the trip was 11 days spent on the remote Chindwin River, traveling village-to-village on a temporarily converted rice barge. This is NOT a tourist destination (and More...