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| Stuck in NY | | [02-Feb-2008]
Ive been stuck in NY for two weeks now. Stuck because its just to cold to even think about going outside most the time. It rarely gets above freezing, and then it rains. Thankfully shutting down Giuliani has occupied most my time. That was until today. Not a single request until 5:02pm (2 minutes after the movie I went to started). So this afternoon once it got to 40 I went to the
Public Libary
and then tried to go on a tour of the UN but it is close don weekend Jan and Feb. Went to the movies. Glad it wasnt my money but a gift card someone gave me because Cloverfield sucked. Its all shot with a video camera, even when it becomes unrealistc and they kill the idiot with the camera. The people have to be the stupidest people on earth. When the military tells you they are losing to the Godzilla monster in NYC you dont go into NYC on the off chance some girl is alive trying to find her. Even not being from NY the locations didnt make sense. The group clearly made it to the Brooklyn side of the bridge before it collapsed. Then suddenly they are at Spring St which is nowhere near the bridge. |
| New York Week 1: Ft. Hamilton and AMNH | | | [08-Oct-2007]
Saturday rode the subway way out to the Narrows to Ft. Hamilton. After some hassle at the gate where the Army thought the museum was closed, and the sleeping cop didnt help I got in after calling and confirming they were open. Then the didnt even bother to metal detect me. There isnt much left of the fort, the entire sea face has been removed. Only the land face and capponier. The museum is relativly new and takes up the whole small capponier.
Came back to Manhatten and after stopping at work went to the American Museum of Natrual History. Didnt see it all, mostly just saw the dinosaurs.
I will have to go back for all the special exhibits and several floors. |
| New York Week 1: North Central Park | | | [08-Oct-2007]
Had to work too much the rest of the week till Friday. Tried a few geocaches again this time in Northern Central Park. The Ubercache I gave up on, though it was starting to get dark particularly in the North Woods where it was. Then went after the highest point cache. Scared some people who thought my gps was a gun. Found the cache site, a block house on the hill but it was too dark to see the plaque or even find the plaque for that matter. Walked down the entire length of Central Park past Columbus circle, and into Times Square. Took a Grey line tour around before going home. |
| New York Week 1: Time Square | | | [08-Oct-2007]
Tuesday left work even later, so it was already dark. Went down to see Times Square. Found a camera bag and had shish kabobs for dinner. Then wandered around the area while exchanging emails with Mark (who is in South Korea). Got down to Grand Central before getting tired and heading home. |
| New York Week 1: Central Park South | | | [08-Oct-2007]
Monday after work rode the subway out to Columbus Circle and went looking for some geocaches in South Central Park. Got there pretty late and only got to look briefly for one which I didnt find. Batteries in the GPS were pretty low too. |
| Brooklyn and Chinatown | | [18-Aug-2007]
Bought a new camera Thursday before trying to sleep. After working all Friday night (10:30pm to about noon), we ate at Grimaldis Coal oven pizzaria in Brooklyn. I decided to look a third time for the Bridge cache with no luck. Then walked across Brooklyn the long way for another cache in Ft. Greene Park, down the heights promenade, through the center past the borugh hall. Found it, and watched a stomp show in the park.
Took a train back to this side of the river, go off on the Lower East side and walked back to the apt via Chinatown. Put up photos of the trip, and some of the apt and city in general
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| Gone last week | | | [17-Jul-2007]
Spent last week in D.C. for a third Presidential campaign. They made use take Sunday off so Jason and I went to the new Air and Space Museum (Udvar-Hazy) out by Dulles. Jason took a lot of pictures. Its a large hanger, big enough for hundreds of planes and big ones, Enterprise, the Enola Gay and the world speed record holder SR-71.
After dropping Jason off at the airport stopped at the Theodore Roosevelt memorial, a nice plaza in the woods, really in the woods. Good quotes too: Conservation means development as much as it does protection. Down the parkyway from it stopped at Ft. Marcy, another Civil War earthwork. This one built to defend Chain Bridge. Then drove down to Fredericksburg to see Bridget and Garron.
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| Camera Broken | | [03-Jun-2007]
I finally got the photos of of D.C. from the weekend of the flash card from my camera. The camera itself is dead. It just wont power on.
I spent Saturday afternoon in the Natural History and Air and Space Museums. Sunday I did the Zoo, then walked to the National Cathedral and back to a metro. There are no photos of Sunday the camera was dead. I would have had more time to look but I was working 10pm to 6am over the weekend and had to sleep sometime.
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| Yuma Travels | | | [20-May-2007]
I put up a page for my Yuma travels since they are becoming more frequent and will be even more so with the Presidential Campaign offices needing to be setup. |
| Museums | | | [19-May-2007]
Ill be in DC for a third week so I stayed over the weekend this time instead of wasting time flying home Friday and flying back Sunday. Im working from midnight to 6am or so over the weekend so I have time to see things during the day. Went to the Natural History Museum and the Air and Space Museums today. Took pictures but it looks like my camera is dead. Hopefully its just the battery. Of course the charger is in Tallahassee so no more picture tomarrow. Also did a virtual geocache at the Smithsonian Castle. I didnt bring the gps so its hard to find ones that are findable without it but this one was pretty simple. |
| Still in D.C. | | | [19-May-2007]
Im still in D.C. and will be for the next week. Didnt see anything this week but will be able to tomarrow and Sunday. Pictures from last week are here
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| Home briefly | | | [12-May-2007]
Im home for the weekend. Been in D.C. all week for McCain and will return next Sunday for most of another week. I didnt get to see anything in D.C. except after work on Wed. Managed to get to the Mall and see the WWII memorial which wasnt there last time I was in DC. Pictures will come later, left the camera at home.
Its was really hazy here when I got back but didnt smell like smoke. It finally rained today for the first time in months, just after I finished watering everything (one of the reasons I came home). Gary has been picking strawberries all week so there arnt any ripe. The first blueberries and blackberries ripened while I was gone. So I got to eat a handfull of them last night. Actually the first blueberry was last week but it was only one. |
| Mississippi Gulf Coast | | | [22-Mar-2007]
Spent the weekend along the Mississippi Gulf coast, Bay St. Louis and Gulfport, driving down to Biloxi for work. The destruction is mainly confined to the beach and 3 blocks off it except at the Bay St. Louis end where there are snapped pine trees as far inland as the interstate. The beach are looks really nice. White sandy beaches on one side and a park like area where houses used to be that are now cleared except for the foundations on the other side. Interestingly the hundred year old oak trees that surrounded the houses all survived. Took a few photos . did 3 geocaches. Canal 31 was just outside the hotel. The Biloxi National cache took me down to the National Cemetary in Biloxi, a pretty place of oaks, azaleas and white headstones. The 3rd was right in Bay St. Louis on the water. |
| New York | | [02-Jan-2007]
Spent most of last week in New York setting up Guilianis Presidental Campaign network. Did see anything because I was working, except for the view from the 27th floor of the building we were in. The Brooklyn Bridge was out one window.
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| Tampa Trip | | [27-Jul-2006]
Had to go to Tampa last weekend for a company fishing trip. The first couple of hours we got nothing. Once we moved further north it picked up. We caught about 15 makrel, 3 of which I got.
Sunday I went to Ft. Desoto and took the ferry to Ft. Dade. Ft. Dade is in bad shape. The batteries are falling apart and being destroyed or buried by the sea. The island is hot, no shade at all and little breeze on parts of it.
There is a lighthouse still in operation on the island along with the remains of the town that once supported the batteries. I ment to do several geocaches on the island but forgot the coordinate sheets in the car but the island was too hot and I wouldnt have done them anyway. The trip back took much longer than should have since we saw some dolphins and made a detour to take pictures. The detour also gave me the chance to take the offshore photos of batteries Laidley and Bigelow.
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| Yuma Camping Trip | | [12-Mar-2006]
Went on a work related camping trip. The guys tried to fish, didnt catch much. Greg forgot the camp stove, so he cooked over the open fire. He was really good and did all the real work to make the trip happen. The only thing really interesting were the White Squirrels |
| Family Gathering | | | [08-Mar-2006]
Uncle Andy came back from Korea Saturday. He and mom picked me up Monday on the way to Ft. Walton to see Aunt Lelia and her family. Keith is graduating from Boot Camp soon but it looks like I cant go, Ashleys gradutaion is more iffy since its in May. |
| The return | | [02-May-2005]
No photos beacuse the camera was out of battery power. Drove back across the state thorugh La Belle, Okeechobee and Ft. Peicre then up 95. Stopped in Jax to pick up the hammock stand. Got home haven driven exactly 1030 mi since thursday when I left. This was kind of a reverse of the Jax-Tampa-Stuart-Miami-Naples-Tampa-Jax trip I took with the first jeep 3 weeks after I bought it 6 years and eleven months ago. This trip was about 4 weeks since I got this jeep so the two really coincide. Both trips are the only time Ive been to the Ft. Meyrs area. This jeep seemed a little better on gas than the old one but the numbers say 15.68mpg.
Leg1: Tallahasse to Cheifland: 168.9mi 10.522g 16.052mpg
Leg2: Cheifland to Punta Gorda 222.2mi 15.433g 14.397mpg
Leg3: Punta Gorda to Okeechobee 205.4mi 10.818g 18.986mpg
Leg4: Okeechobee to Matanzas 216.2mi 13.696g 15.785mpg
Leg5: Matanzas to Tallahassee 223.9mi 15.216g 14.714mpg
It rained before I left in the morning so my butt was wet all day. It also stayed cloudy all day, and rained off and on from mid Florida north to Jax but never heavy so no water on the windshield. The new box is good, with the tonnu cover one, dont know about having it off yet.
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| A record number of caches and Ft. De Soto | | | [29-Apr-2005]
The last part of the drive from Palm Harbor to Sanibel was mainly stopping at geocaches. I did 6 in one day which I think is my record. First one was Old Fort. Which has nothing to do with a real fort.
Missed the ferry to Ft. Dade because of the first cache but did get to revisit Ft. Desoto. I thought I remembered there being more than one battery here and Im sure Ive never been to Ft. Dade so it may just be that it was too long ago.
There were 3 caches within half a mile of the fort, and after some confusion because I duplicated the coordinates on one I found them all.
Continued on to the do virtual cache in downtown Ft. Myers The Attack on Ft. Myers, couldnt do the museum since it was closing.
Came onto Sanibel island, and apparently Drew and Heather saw me at the iontersection, then I went away from the hotel for the cache out at the lighthouse so they called. Did the cache and the one at the chapel before meeting them at the hotel. |
| Road trip continues | | | [29-Apr-2005]
Since the hotel didnt have internat access (web mail on the TV just doesnt count). I had to wait till I got back for the rest of the trip down.
Stopped in Perry for the Forest Capital Museum. I had passed it a lot and never wnt in so tried this time. I was closed. But the ranger hadnt changed the open sign yet so she let me wander around the grounds anyway. she had already locked the museum.
Flowers continued along the road until the suburban strip mall hell that starts south of Homassasa. Once that ends, below Sarasota there were just a few and eventually my camera ran out of juice so I missed some on Sanibel.
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