It’s quiet. Lots of people at Coachella. I don’t much care, but it’s nice to have the neighborhood feel rather abandoned despite the nice weather.
New place, old blog
Welcome to the new home of my Reluctant Adventurer Blog, formerly hosted at http://michaelgat.tumblr.com.
μAdventure: Carizzo Plain 2
The mountains were yellow, orange and lavender. As I hiked up, I went through all those colors – mostly yellow at my elevation, but some traces of the others as well.
μAdventure: Carizzo Plain 1
I decided I would head to the Carrizo Plain today to check out what was there, do some hiking and generally just get away.
New Year’s Thought
I like traveling with a block of time and minimal plans, not beholden to a schedule or detailed itinerary. That’s what makes it a vacation for me.
NZ Epilogue: What I did; What I planned
It’s what happens when you go to a place you don’t know and discover things you never considered along the way. Those “unknown unknowns” they teach you about in project management class.
NZ: Final thoughts about the CB500x
When loaded it was a bit sluggish in the corners but a willing hauler that could still pass slow trucks with ease when asked to. When unloaded it was a lot of fun on twisting roads and mountain passes.
NZ Day 24: Home
It’s now 2200/10pm on the 22nd of December. Which is weird, because my flight left Auckland at 2300/11pm, which the clock on my computer tells me is about an hour from now. I’m confused.
NZ Days 21-23: Christchurch again
You see more as you spend more time in one place just watching. I call this, “peeling back the onion,” and it’s yielded great photos over the years.
NZ Misc.: Christmas in NZ
It’s not that people aren’t celebrating. It’s that the months-long retail and media hysteria that occupy us in the US just isn’t here.