Archive for the ‘travel’ Category
Autumn Tree
Amanda and I went apple picking last weekend. It was a great Autumn day, and the leaves on the trees were perfect. On the way out of Hartland Orchards in Markham, VA – I snapped a pictures of this perfectly orange tree at the top of the hill with a clear blue sky as the backdrop. Check out all the pictures in my Apple Picking set on Flickr.
Trip to Sonoma and San Francisco
I’ve been meaning to post about my (somewhat) recent trip to Sonoma/San Francisco – and if you follow my Flickr photostream, you’ve already seen the pictures. If not, check out the pictures from our trip here.
I’ve been wanting to go on this trip ever since we saw Sideways. The idea was to go to Napa and Sonoma and check out a ton of wineries, but once we got over there we found that there was so much to do just in Sonoma. There wasn’t any need to spread ourselves too thin. We flew into San Francisco on a Thursday morning and stopped by Sausalito for a quick lunch at a great taco place called the Salsalito Taco Shop.
Salsas at the Salsalito Taco Shop
Mardi Gras 2009
In front of a Bacchus float...(with A&A)
I posted my pictures from Mardi Gras a few days ago on Flickr. Check them out here.
Mardi Gras was awesome. More than that, New Orleans was awesome. I didn’t see anything more than the French Quarter, but I already know that I want to go back to visit not during Mardi Gras. That city has a ton of character along with some great places to eat. Since we were only down there for 3 days we only had time to do the typical tourist routine. We hit up Cafe Du Monde for beignets and cafe au lait, Central Grocery for muffaletta sandwiches, drank hurricanes, bought hand grenades from Tropical Isle and caught countless beads from floats at the Bacchus Ball (complete with parade king Val Kilmer!).
Mardi Gras 2009 on Flickr.
NY Trip #2
IMG_6277, originally uploaded by ultraclay!.
Two NY trips in just a few months is a personal record for me. We caught the train out of Union Station Friday evening up to Penn Station and headed out to Brooklyn from there. It seems as if nights never end before 4am every time I go up to NY, which is awesome at the time, and then not awesome the next day. We also caught Chicago at the Ambassador Theater the next day to see a friend perform. She was great, and even gave us a backstage tour afterwards. Unfortunately we saw it Jan from The Office takes over one of the lead roles.
The attraction keeping us at the bar Friday night were two bocce courts. All bars should have bocce!
See the rest of the pics here on Flickr.
