Here are some pictures from our walk in the wilderness last Saturday. We took a relaxed hike in the vicinity of Mt. Starr King, just to see if we could.
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Ian flies through
My cousin Ian, on his way from Austin to Osaka for some super-brainiac post-doctoral type thing, was stuck on a plane for six hours at San Francisco last Friday night, courtesy of a storm we were having. We brought him home and made him eat some of Mary’s chicken pot pie. The weather cleared the [...]
Opa’s funeral
My dad’s dad passed away in November at 95. He became a Lutheran minister in 1935 and served in about 10 churches, ending up in Madison, Wisconsin. Laura and I joined the family for the funeral in Minneapolis, where Opa had lived in retirement. Then we all drove to Madison and had another service at [...]
Straight outta the Sunset
We’d been thinking about moving across town to the Mission for a long time. Closer to both our jobs, Lilly’s school (and Laura’s too, as of this year), better weather, more diversity, decent coffee. This summer we finally went ahead and got an agent (Steve Davis, who is married to Cassandra Mettling-Davis, the architect who [...]
Good weather
Wow, Kauai. What a place. We just got back from a week there with Mary’s parents. We had a gas. Even the occasional rain shower was better weather than we get at home.
This is the view from the back deck of our apartment.
Lilly spent more time in the water than out. She preferred the pool [...]
Minneapolis
Hied me to the ancestral homeland for a week to attend a professional conference and see friends and family. My first day here I got to see my mom (right) and my sister Jo (left) perform with a flute choir called Flute Cocktail, accompanied by my brother Nathaniel on the Andean quena and related tubular [...]
Arizona spring break
For Spring break we went to the Grand Canyon with Grandpa Ted, Grandma Helga, and Karen and Al and their four kids. We stayed in Sedona, a couple of hours from the Canyon. We did two day trips to the Canyon and several hikes around the Sedona vicinity, which is very different from the Grand [...]
And finally…
On the way back to Guatemala City from San Marcos, we stopped at the spectacular Lago Atitlan for lunch and a bit of scenery-viewing. From there we took the old road to Antigua, the one that was replaced by the Pan-American highway in the 1960s. It was slower, but more rewarding, the way those things [...]
Water
More imagery from Guatemala. This is a fabulous little cascade that you pretty much have to hack your own trail to, in a back corner of a coffee plantation. It’s always suprising to find a place like this without so much as a snack stand to exploit it.
Guatemala
So here we are in Guatemala. The trip was a little grueling, but it’s great to be here. Hopefully United will manage not to lose our luggage on the way home.
Here’s Paul diving off the 5-meter plank at the local spring-fed swimming place. We spent the morning there and had some home-fried donuts from a [...]
Mileage
Here’s a place to keep track of gas mileage online. We are temporarily (we hope) the owners of a three-car fleet, so knowing what each car can do becomes even more important than usual.
Bollywood
I spent Thursday evening, my last full evening in Chennai, seeing a movie. And I really mean full evening. The movie went a little over three hours, counting the 15-minute intermission. I can only say that I have never seen anything like it. I kept thinking of that scene late in Blazing Saddles when the [...]
Silk
Tonight I went with my colleague Kavitha and her two kids (boy 11, girl 5) to the giant Rasi’s sari shop. Kavitha really knew her way around the fabrics, which helped make my benighted choices a little less benighted, I hope. I dropped somewhat more than I should have but got away with some amazing [...]
High as an elephant’s eye
Last Friday we flew to Bangalore, where a driver was waiting to take us to a resort in the high coffee country at the other end of a 200-mile dirt track. On Saturday we hiked around, saw elephants, sampled the local nightlife. On the way back to Bangalore the following day, we got lost in [...]
Hi from Chennai
I’m in India for the second half of October, working with my team of intrepid tech writers. The Divali holiday is coming up, which in scale and importance is kind of like Christmas and Thanksgiving put together, and it seems that people start preparing for it pretty early, because the traffic this week hasn’t been [...]
Santa Cruz
Catching up on some of the summer activities: In the middle of August, on an impulse, we grabbed the last empty spot at the Henry Cowell campground up in the hills above Santa Cruz. We spent the weekend there hiking and goofing off, and then descended on the beach boardwalk on Monday for some intensive [...]
New York III
We got a much earlier start this morning — left the house a little after 9:30 to meet my aunt Anna and cousins Maija and Max. Anna and Max were dropping Maija at the bus station to go back to Boston. We met them on 54th St. (near the Red Parrot, the first salsa club [...]
New York II
Mary and Diogenes are just back in New York from Taiwan, where Diogenes picked up a prize in the Taipei print and drawing biennial. Now he is clearing out his studio on Lexington and 103rd for a push to finish new material for a show in San Francisco in the spring. I went with them [...]