I'm off to Senegal and the Gambia in a week, my first visit to West Africa in mumblemumble -- OK, fine, sixteen -- years. I'm curious what it will be like, but also, surprisingly for really-not-particularly-introspective me, what I will be like ( Read more... )

It has been a while:


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Actual textual content! I know. Be still your beating heart.

But not too still; this post is all/just about fitness and exercise ( Read more... )

This is, with rare exceptions, basically a photo journal these days -- sorry about that, O people who prefer text -- so in lieu of first lines, here's (with some slight temporal massaging) the first photo posted of each month:


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S. and I took advantage of America's strange ritual of turkey slaughter and strip-mall invasions to make our way down the coast to Morro Bay, known for Morro Rock, which apparently, on the other side, looks like a Moor:


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This Saturday I briefly attended the Lost Horizon Night Market, which was kind of enh -- mind you, I was in full-on introvert mode -- but I took a couple of nifty pictures en route:


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I'm not sure what it says about me that these pictures of dead coral are two of my favourites from my latest trip:


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"You know," I said to Gavin, "I've spent ten days around here, that's way more than I've spent almost anywhere else I've travelled to. I thought I'd get a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the place than if I'd just spent a few days ( Read more... )

I am across the great ocean, as I am sometimes wont to be, and I have been taking pictures, as I am sometimes wont to do.

In reverse chronological order:


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198x: Muskoka, Canada, a couple of entirely unlicensed dives with my father ( Read more... )