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A month of travel.

Posted by Steve on December 27, 2012 No comments

So i finished up a full month (maybe a tad over) of traveling for work. Not just the typical “Go there, be gone for a month, come back” Nope, I would fly out for a week, fly back for the weekend. Destination: Sierra Vista AZ. It was hard on the body but at least I got to spend my weekends with Sarah.

Here are a few things that happened while I was gone. (Both good and bad)

I got really involved with the game Ingres on my phone.
In Said game, I took out Tucson. Made a lot of enemies and a few friends.
We had our annual Christmas party which was a hoot!
We learned that our dog, Husker, had a relapse with cancer and had to be put down.
We put a Christmas tree in our Tardis! (With Added Doctor Nativity scene)
We survived the Mayan Apocalypse!
Horrible things happened to children in a school
Nick and I did a Podcast about Violence in Video Games
Christmas was had and time with family was spent

Just because I wanted another fun travel pic.

That should bring us all current with what’s going on. Now we approach the new year and it looks like there will be much in the way of travel for the year 2013. This time there is a good chance that Sarah and I will both be doing the traveling together. More on that as it develops. With any luck, you will see lots of posts about Photography and Gaming from overseas. Will be interesting to see what the culture is like in other places. (like we did in London!)

Speaking of gaming, Sarah and I wrapped up Borderlands 2 (although she is still playing to get all of the extra stuff), I picked up and finished Halo 4 (still working on Spartan Ops), and I am playing The Walking Dead from Telltale games on my iPad. I still get out to play some Ingres, but I hit the level cap and am having a hard time finding more to do it. I hope that will pick up soon.

Sorry things are not more upbeat. I was hoping to have more to write about but the end of the year is just….well, the end of the year.

World Traveler

Posted by Steve on August 28, 2012 No comments

Huge sorry for the lack of content for the last few weeks. Things have been a tad bit hectic as of late. You see, I have been traveling around for work and working very long days, so I haven’t had a lot of time to write. After the London trip I went back out to North Carolina for a week, and then off to Arizona for a month or so. The downside was a serious lack of time, but the plus side is I got to see some cool stuff and even take some great pictures.

I was down in Sierra Vista AZ and the landscape looks amazing. Armed with my trusty camera travel kit (aka, “My Bag” stuff to the right —> ) I set out to capture some great sunsets. Below are the results:

Looking towards the mountains in Sierra vista lends to a great sunset shot.

In Tombstone AZ, just about a 30 min drive from Sierra Vista, there are two cemeteries. The one most people know is Boot Hill, which is where the victims of the OK Corral are buried, and then the main cemetery, where everyone else goes. The real one is MUCH better looking (Boot hill looks like someones Halloween decorations).

The graves there date back to the foundation of the town.

For comparison, here are the Boot Hill graves:

While venturing out (by myself) I ran across this sign and thought it might not be a good idea to be out, at night, so late, alone.

Back in Tombstone, at Big Nose Kates Saloon, I had a great shot of this whiskey. When the Barkeep asked if I wanted a picture of the bottle, he whipped out all the props for it!

After one of the trips to Arizona, I took a side trip to Parris Island South Carolina to watch my Son (who, you may remember, went off to the Marines) graduate Basic Training (aka, boot camp (aka, 3 months of hell)). Proud Father is Proud.

And lastly, not that I am back, I am trying to get back to normal. This means attending events like the local DC Metro MINI’s annual picnic! Where we got together and took this great shot: