Month July 2016

Night Shoot

I photographed the Milky Way! For a slight pedantic digression: we are in the Milky Way. So, in a way, every photograph that we take that is not done by astronomers, is pretty much guaranteed to be of the Milky Way. All the same, this is a view of the rest of the Milky Way as captured within the constraints of a single camera on Earth. It does not compare to some of the amazing photographs I've seen online. The moon was still out and overwhelms the more distant stars. But it is amazing, and I can go to sleep, happy.

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Day 1

I feel like some Judie Bloom high schooler when I write that today was the best day ever. But it was really awesome. After a couple days of travel, we rolled through Yellowstone to our campsite in the Grand Tetons. In the course of the day, we saw a bald eagle, buffalo, elk, and moose. The only thing left on our Yellowstone bingo card is "bear." My preference would be a black bear, but I wouldn't want to be considered "picky." There certainly is an unhinged part of me that wants to see a grizzly bear in the wild.

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The Oasis Bordello Museum

Oasis Bordello Museum in Wallace, Idaho is the opposite of what I anticipated. Positioned on yet another brick lined block of shops, one might expect something playing up old west iconography. Yet, while it traces its origins to early mining clientele, it continued operation into the late 1980s. Instead of corsets and feather boas, the closets are filled with polyester bathing suites and sequin dresses.

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Wallace, Idaho

On occasion, we stop in a town for what should have been a quick stop that wasn't so quick. What was initially just a lunch stop became a stroll about town, which became a tour of a bordello, culminating in getting our growler filled.

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No-See-Ums

We thought it was rain. It wasn't. The evening twisters across the farmland were not wind and dirt but small insects that now plaster Dodgy's grill. The sound as they smashed against our window shield may have sounded like rain, but the smears left by our window wipers quickly dispelled that illusion.

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XP Camper

This is a fully expanded XP Camper. The section above the truck cab is fabric but everything else has hard siding. You can see a line along the center of the body where the top section slides over the bottom section when the camper is compressed. The side entrance allows a full width table with picture window at the back but means that this camper is not a slide in. The truck bed is converted to allow a full width camper. See the industrial metal base that is substituted for a truck bed.

Great design comes with some inspiration.  What is missing in other products that will be present in yours?  Along with being a beautifully sophisticated pop-up truck camper, the XP Camper benefits from the love and detail that comes from a…

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Mosses Trail

Olympic National Park is remarkable for its high longitude rainforests. What is possibly even more remarkable is how much you can see in less than a mile loop that is Mosses Trail.

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Eggs & Bacon

I tend to have light breakfasts. Yet, I thought I would try some classic bacon and eggs. They wound up not being so classic as I discovered we had a surplus of asparagus, mushrooms, and onions. So, we made a veggie scramble.

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