Posts Tagged ca

Greetings from Northern California. I’m writing to you from the back seat of the tourmobile, in the middle of a heavy rainstorm, en route to Oregon. The tour posse: Mark Growden – musical mastermind/reason why all of this is happening. Alex Kelly – cello prodigy/giggler/noise maker extraordinaire. Helena Price – record label representative/doer of business-related [...]

Stories + photos from my most recent trip to San Francisco. Kate and I head out bright and early to catch out 6 a.m. flight to Houston, TX. I have no recollection of it, as I passed out immediately once I was seated on the plane. Apparently free breakfast was offered to me. I had [...]

So I started this habit of jumping recently. I suppose it happened after having the epiphany that I have a lot of good photos of things that thousands of other people have also taken good photos of. The sudden feeling that my photos lacked any sort of novelty led me to the decision to begin [...]

On the way back into town to finish up the last of our San Fran projects before plane boarding time. Project #1: go to Land’s End. It’s a strange process getting out here. You go to the golf course behind the Legion of Honor, wander until you find a dirt road blocked off by a [...]

We head northward to find Calistoga, a tiny town nestled within the Sonoma Valley. Out mapquest directions don’t seem to suffice, so we decide to rely on the navigation service on my phone. We end up on Petrified Forest Road, winding at about five mph to keep from driving off the side of the mountain. [...]

[March 2009] Day four: drive everywhere we possibly can. Vista point jump. Stop 2: Some amazing beach. Can’t remember the name, but I remember that it bore some sort of phonetic resemblance to pinot grigio. So we started hiking. Random Pacific Ocean cliffside jump. Even higher more dangerous Pacific Ocean cliffside jump. I was examining [...]