Category: travel
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Moon Gardens
Spaced based gardening? As a test of the harshest conditions for supporting life, NASA is planning on experiments to grow cress, turnips and basil on the moon. The challenge – a temperature differential of +150° F on the sunny side and -150° F on the dark side of the moon. Via NPR, quoting NASA plant…
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Transamerica Hummingbird
A nice shot of some urban nature – San Francisco, circa Christmas 2012. photo © Jason King
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Europe Journal: Home Base
An interesting aspect of the European journey was the ability not to stay in hostels or hotels, but to live in some of the places that people actually inhabit in these cities. This was done courtesy of crashing on my sisters couch in London, and utilizing the fabulous air.bnb for finding amazing flats to stay…
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Europe Journal: Diana Memorial Fountain
Located at one of the far ends of Hyde Park in London is the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, an elegantly curved ring of water opened in 2004 (design by Kathryn Gustafson from her London office of Gustafson Porter). Although somewhat controversial, I found the feature quite engaging, even experiencing it late in the…
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Europe Journal: Signs of the Times
A photographic exploration of a few of the more interesting tidbits of signage from the recent travels to Europe. Enjoy. Sad day when you need prohibit street musicians (London) Excellent advice for those from the states (London) Creative sign manipulation (London) The Catalan spirit continues (Barcelona) Closeup of doors of the Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) Taking…
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Europe Journal – Green Wall Art
Sep. 17: On a rainy day next to Trafalgar Square we discovered a somewhat odd installation of a living wall adjacent to the National Gallery which I of course had to sprint over to check out. Closer inspection shows it to be a living representation of Van Gogh’s ‘A Wheatfield with Cypresses’ painted in 1889…
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L+U Travels – The Prelude
England, Spain, Italy. While a couple of weeks is not long enough to spend in any one of these countries (or cities for that matter), the agenda is set. Thus I’m considering an upcoming trip to Europe and actual vacation (what the hell is that?) and a scouting trip for further visits. The itinerary starts…