My friend Gary earned his pilot's license recently and has been looking for people to take to the sky. Him, Catalina, and I drove to the "other" Madison airport, which featured a fifties diner, lots of plush lounge chairs, small jets, and little single propeller planes. Someday when… Read More »
The 2012 Twin Cities Couch Fest was a fun weekend, as expected. I saw with a lot of the people I met last year at the Madison Couch Crash, some of whom will be in town this coming weekend for our latest couch crash.
Highlights of the weekend included seeing a group of Mexican dancers… Read More »
Here's the final preview movie for our Couch Crash, which is next weekend. The focus of this video is the bicycle tour and all that you can see around town.
A Couch Crash is a CouchSurfing event in which we invite people from around the world to partake in a weekend of festivities in our… Read More »
My niece's fourth birthday party was a couple of weeks ago. Actually it was her fifth birthday, but she turned four. She especially liked this Minnie Mouse thing, and I had no idea what it was. Happy birthday Maddie!
This is the second of three preview movies I made for the 2012 Madison Couch Crash, which will take place July 26-29. This video shows off the inside of the capitol building.
A Couch Crash is a CouchSurfing event in which we invite people from around the world to partake in a weekend of festivities… Read More »
I left the Turk Museum tired, but in a great mood. It was Friday night, and the first major night of the Columbus Couch Crash. For those of you who aren't familiar, a couch crash is an event that has grown in popularity over the last few years on Read More »
The 2012 Madison Couch Crash is coming July 26-29. Here's the first in a series of promotional videos I made for the couch crash.
A Couch Crash is a CouchSurfing event in which we invite people from around the world to partake in a weekend of festivities in our city. This video highlights some of… Read More »
After a long drive to Dayton, OH, I rang Dr. Turk's doorbell. The last time I saw him was on a road trip to Florida with my parents in 2006. We had met a few months earlier in Antarctica when he saw my nice camera and asked if he could have some of my photos.… Read More »
An entire species went extinct yesterday. Lonesome George was the last known Pinta Island tortoise, one of eleven remaining Galapagos Island tortoise species. Until his discovery about forty years ago, scientists thought his species was already extinct. But then someone found George walking by himself on Pinta Island and brought him to the Charles Darwin… Read More »
On Memorial Day weekend, I joined the Hoofer Outing Club for their annual whitewater kayaking trip. About twenty of us drove to the northwoods, where the club owns several acres of rustic land near Lakewood known as Hooferland.
Our whole group went to the Pike river, the border with… Read More »
