It’s been a couple months now since I visited Atlanta, but I want to share a post I wrote at 4 am on the last full night I was there. I had a great time and I tried to capture why. Sort of.
Category Archives: Vacation
2008
Jan 08 2008
Howdy folks and welcome to 2008. This place has been a virtual ghost town for most of the last 16 months. Essentially since I started working full time in August 2006, I’ve been in that world and neglected this one despite the fact that, on most levels, they tend to be similar.
I have thought numerous…continued →
Backpacking Catalina Island
Apr 09 2007
I just returned from a wonderful backpacking trip across Catalina Island, part of The Channel Islands off the southern coast of California. We had an amazing time and it was quite relaxing, even though the trip involved nearly 30 miles of walking over 4 days.
Before we left for the trip, we spent plenty of time with Google Earth, planning our trip against visible trails and other map features. This got me thinking about a different way to present the trip to friends and family when we returned. Without much experience using Google Earth, I was pleasantly surprised to learn this morning that it is quite easy to create a “tour” in Google Earth. Not only that, using simple HTML, you can add photos and links to the tour. This was exactly what I was hoping for, so I got started on it this afternoon and with a few hours of work, I have prepared a simple tour of our entire trip. Being such a visual person, this makes me incredibly giddy because it allows you to see our trip photos within their geographic context. It is like an interactive globe! First a few details about the trip.