On our visit to Costa Rica a few months ago we were staying really close to the Nicaraguan border. Having grown up in the 1980′s it was hard to not have seen Nicaragua in the news. Nicaragua was like a scab to the Reagan administration and they could not stop picking at it. Before the CIA’s...

Ahh… the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D lens. An optical masterpiece that no Nikon DSLR owner should be without; especially since it is Nikon’s cheapest lens that is still manufactured today. Every online Nikon lens review loves this lens and can find no fault in it. Well, I found one. A big one! Big enough that...

Yesterday I went out to our raised garden beds to pull out the dying remains of the plants that yielded this past summer’s vegetables. I noticed a green carrot top mixed in with the rotting browns and grays and went to pull it. What I pulled was simply amazing; especially since our garden is...

My parents have always been adventurous.  They have generously shared their love of the outdoors with their children and grandchildren.  Growing up in Los Alamos, I got do many outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing, camping, and rafting.  Besides my parents love for the outdoors, it also helped...

We have an addition to the family, and no, it’s not a sibling for Sydney. It’s a new blog! It seems like every traveler and traveling family have their own blogs now, but you rarely see any blog posts from that of the children being dragged around the world by their wander-crazed parents. All families...

With the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Portland protests being the talk of the news, Kerri and I decided to go downtown Portland to see what the fuss was all about. And of course, we came armed with cameras. We showed up at the camp, which consists of two full city blocks of public park space, and immediately...

We have a guest blogger… my wife Kerri! With our recent trip back to Kerri’s home state, New Mexico, she wanted to be the one to blog about it. I think she thought that I would make fun of it, as I always comment that the adobe houses in New Mexico look like they belong in the cartoon, The...

Last week, my employer sent me to Boise for a conference. As much as I like to travel, Idaho is not one of my favorite places to visit. But, my mom and my brother live there and it is always nice to see them and I figured I could have fun taking photos in downtown Boise, where I would be staying. So,...

This past weekend we went yurt camping at Nehalem Bay State Park on the Oregon Coast. Driving towards the coast Friday night we hit rain and the rain continued all Friday night and all day Saturday leaving us trapped inside the yurt. To entertain ourselves, I set up the camera on the tripod and asked...

Last week was depressing. The warmth of summer ended and has been replaced with cool rain that chills you to the bone, I caught a nasty flu like virus and have been suffering in a fever induced delirium, Steve Jobs died, my aunt Hazel died, my retirement account statement arrived (ouch), and the worst...

See and hear the volcanic activity of Rincon de la Vieja National Park: And hear the sounds of the jungle:

“You damn dirty apes, where the hell are you? I can hear your barks, now show yourselves!” I shouted in the middle of the Rincon de la Vieja National Park. When you look at the travel brochures and books for Costa Rica you always see photos of cute monkeys. Okay, so we came to Costa Rica, now where...