Category: Travel

  • American Southwest Pictures

    American Southwest Pictures

    New pictures of the American Southwest roadtrip — Berkeley, California to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, are now up on xenotropic.net.  This was the first time in years that I’ve taken out my SLR, and it was a fun time and place to take pictures.  The full moon helped to create some eerie effects, particularly at the…

  • A Biased And Incomplete Guide To The Bay Area

    A friend from college, now living in the UK, recently wrote me to ask where to look when considering a move to the San Francisco Bay Area, with these criteria: Good schools in the area (and I know this makes homes much more expensive!), but we won’t rule out private school if we need to…

  • SF to Berkeley Bike Ride.

    One of my favorite rides — looking forward to doing this again when my broken wrist is healed. There’s a lot of great parks that line the Bay, and it is fun to see the whole SF Bay area in a day. I often stay closer to the East Bay shore, going through Oyster Bay…

  • What is there to see between Dublin and Cork (but not *in* Dublin or Cork)?

    I asked this on Quora, and no one answered, so I went ahead and answered my own question after having ridden between the two towns. There’s: the ruin of Kells Priory  (“one of the largest and most impressive medieval monuments in Ireland”); the Rock of Cashel if you take the northerly route, or some nice…

  • What to do when flying with bikes.

    What to do when flying with bikes.

    Bicycle Touring Pro has a good page with major airline policies laid out. It is from 2008, so perhaps a bit out of date, but a good starting point. This summer (2012) my wife and I flew with our bicycles from San Francisco to Dublin, rode around Europe for the summer, and flew back from Copenhagen to…