Photos
Maine, part 6 - August 12 - 13, 2010
Maine, part 5 - August 1 - 8, 2010
Maine, part 4 - July 30 - August 1, 2010
Albany, VT, NH, western ME - July 23-25, 2010
Maine, part 3 - July 17-18, 2010
Air and Space Center (DC area) - July 10, 2010
Maine, part 2 - July 3-4, 2010
Maine, part 1 - June 19-20, 2010
Returning from Los Angeles - June/July 2008
- Las Vegas and Salt Lake City
- Yellowstone National Park, mostly in WY
- The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand), in MT
- Mt. Rushmore, in SD
- The Mitchell (SD) Corn Palace (!)
- then back south at Sioux Falls, SD —Yes, south! Yellowstone and northern Wyoming, all of Montana and North Dakota, most of South Dakota, all of Washington, half of Oregon and Idaho, nearly all of Minnesota, most of Wisconsin, half of Michigan, parts of upstate New York, half of Vermont and New Hampshire, and nearly all of Maine are all further north than Toronto and much of the rest of Southwestern Ontario, Canada. (I am NOT making this up!)
Portsmouth and Southampton (UK) - June 2008
Niagara Falls - May 2008
Joshua Tree National Park - May 2008
Los Angeles - September 2007
- the Getty Villa, the Getty Center
- Long Beach, Venice Beach, Malibu
- the Huntington Library and Museum
- from Mullholland above the Hollywood Bowl
- the San Fernando Mission
- Downtown
Going to Los Angeles - August 2007
- Day 1 - Cleveland
- Day 2 - St. Louis
- Day 3 - Oklahoma City
- Day 4 - North Texas, Santa Fe
- Day 5 - Meteor Crater, Flagstaff
- Day 6 - Sedona, Palm Springs
- a few days later: Tijuana
Me - from 1965 to 2007
Kitchener Blues Festival - August 2009
Famous (and Semi-Famous) People I've Seen in Public
- Tim Allen (with his motorcycle outside LA's Mullholland / Beverly Glen Starbuck's)
- Gillian Anderson (at a Laurie Anderson concert at UCLA's Royce Hall)
- Randy Bachman (in Toronto, at Yonge and St. Clair)
- Ray Bradbury (at the LA Times Book Festival of Books at UCLA)
- Clancy Brown (at Mel's Diner on Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks)
- Gabriel Carteris (at the Border's bookstore in Santa Monica)
- Jamie Lee Curtis (before a screening of Touch of Evil at West LA's Nuart Theatre)
- Atom Egoyan (in Toronto, walking along Bloor St. W.)
- Jenny Garth (driving a convertible along Wilshire Blvd. in West LA)
- Jeff Goldblum (in Toronto, playing a lobby piano at Bloor and Bay)
- David Hasselhoff (at a restaurant along Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks)
- Penny Lancaster (with Rod Stewart at the Mullholland / Beverly Glen Starbuck's)
- Rob Morrow (at the Santa Monica promenade)
- Rod Stewart (at the Mullholland / Beverly Glen Starbuck's)
- John Tesh (at the Mullholland / Beverly Glen Starbuck's)
- Dave Thomas (driving his convertible in Sherman Oaks)
- Robert Wagner (at the Bruin Theatre in Westwood)
- Jaleel White (Urkel! - took a music history class for which I was a TA)
Note: I didn't actually take the following photos.
Monty & DB
Monty (cat) - Peacefully passed away, after a courageous battle with congestive heart failure and renal failure, at North Waterloo Veterinary Hospital in Elmira, Ontario on Tuesday, 28 October 2008, at the age of 13 years. In the passenger’s seat of Durrell Bowman’s white pickup truck, Monty travelled 24,000 kilometres throughout North America, from his birthplace in Los Angeles to the Kitchener-Waterloo area, from there to Edmonton and back to Elora, from Toronto to Halifax and back, and return trips to Los Angeles and back to Ontario. As a youngster, Monty enjoyed playing ping-pong-ball soccer, but he had recurring urinary tract problems (resulting in surgery in 2001) and his eyesight also began to weaken, which contributed to his later, more sedentary, lifestyle. In his last several years, he also got used to the sensation of some of his medications being administered transdermally, via the hairless areas inside his ears. Monty was gentle and affectionate to the end, and he will be sorely missed.