Madison from the Sky

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: Madison from the Sky »

Twin Cities Couch Fest, 2012

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: Twin Cities Couch Fest, 2012 »

Crashing Columbus

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: Crashing Columbus »

The Turk Museum

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: The Turk Museum »

Extinction

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: Extinction »