A Walk in the Woods

Still pretty chaotic here in abruptly-back-to-collegiate-teaching-land, but last weekend I finally took a day off (by my reckoning, my first day fully off since at least the start of August) and went for a little tromp in a state forest preserve. After the jump: naught but photography!

Chaos Reigns

What can I say to this dormant space? Things have been nuts, folks: after the jump, some life updates.

On the [Ring] Road Again

 Hey pals! Dropping my spare thoughts on Iceland below, for the handful of folk who still come here for updates on my (obviously rarer in general and supremely rare lately) travels. I've had a hectic month - in just about all aspects of life, including getting back out to San Francisco for a visit with my excellent brother - so this post is photo-light, as I've only really played with the video footage cut together below. Once I clear another project off my slate in the coming weeks, hopefully that'll change as well. The future! Who cares!

After the jump: a few more videos and thinking out loud!

Heistland

 OK, fuller update to come sometime over the next few weeks as I'm able to pull it together, but wanted to post the first batch of footage from my first travel in about a year and a half: camping in Iceland! After having had some good family time (first time seeing any siblings in person since Christmas 2019), I was looking to unplug from work for at least a week, and thanks to weird market forces, it ended up being about the same to camp across Iceland as it would have been to rent a car here in Chicago for more midwestern camping... So, I went!

Much to say about the trip in many directions, but just wanted to drop the first of what'll be at least two, possibly three, pieces of montage I an throwing together on the back end of the trip. This one's the most straightforward. I rented a car to drive the Ring Road around Iceland's circumference (with side trips along the way) and most of the time I was on the road, I just let a camera sit on the dashboard recording the trip. So, that's basically this: just a trimed-and-culled assemblage of the footage that turned out, with NONE of the very exciting "oh I guess the camera was pointing the wrong way to catch the road" footage that is now, and forever, only MINE to enjoy. You gots to keep yer secrets, you does.

 Anyhow. More to come, but for now: The Ring, as experienced by this goober.

Lisboa

Really not sure if this space will continue (either as it is, or as a subset to a more comprehensive website that I half-built before the pandemic made it all seem pretty pointless) but since it's essentially a log of my travels, I'm taking this spot here to drop my video and some photos from my last pre-pandemic trip. Feeling grateful (though also very unplanned and lightly-holding-things) to be starting to think again about travel on the other side of vaccinations. For the near future, if I undertake any, it's still going to be focused on camping, outdoor breaks from city life, putting off most of my most-missed and most-eager-to-explore destinations until I can engage with the fullness of life as it's lived there. But it's nice to be daydreaming again, at least.

After the jump: Lisbon, start of March, 2020.

Truman the Wonderdog

 Hey pals,

This blog is basically buried at the moment but I'm using this space to mark the passing of Truman, the most incredible dog a fella could ever ask for, and a tremendously beloved member of the King family.