You’re always somewhere.
I was talking to a local friend the other night about the first — and only — time I ever went camping by myself. It was about nine years ago in BC well north of Vancouver, and it was at the end of the summer, the last weekend before the provincial campsites shut [...]

On Saturday after leaving the funeral reception, Lac Saint-Jean, and taking some last photos of the valley from the road, I told Georges I was driving and he had to hitch hike back to Quebec City. He stood there with his thumb out and I told him NOBODY would pick him up unless he made [...]

This title will make absolutely no sense for a while, but it will… eventually!
Since I was completely unsuccessful in the fluids department last night, I decided I would get up early and have another go at it this morning. I was due for brunch at 11:30, so I left enough time for a second attempt [...]

This photo has no significance to anyone but me, only because I slept here on Saturday night, November 17, after getting promptly pickpocketed at the bus station arriving from Gerona Airport (about an hour away). Suddenly I had no euros, so the translator who helped me file my police report took up a little collection [...]

… and it comes with a story:

me, between Cairns and Port Douglas, 1992
(Man, did I ever need a haircut. And a proper pair of scissors for those jeans.)
The person who took the photo is a Swiss friend I met in Banff, Alberta, the year before (1990/1991). At that time I worked at a ski resort [...]

Can I reach it?
This is, almost without a doubt (I have to leave room for a weakening memory), the smallest toilet I have ever visited. It was in Paris — was that only three weeks ago?? — on a wacky boat moored on the Seine called "Le Cabaret Pirate" that doubles as a restaurant and [...]

I ended up in a sushi bar in midtown after work after a sudden and surprise craving for some Japanese food. That often happens to me in Vancouver but not Toronto, so I answered the sushi call as soon as my errand was finished at Davisville. I didn’t search for long before I found a [...]

While I was rooting around through my self-portraits, I came across this oldie from the archives:

May 1992. Wow, this was almost 15 years ago! Japanese tourists took photos of our silliness to show the folks back home.
I’d been travelling for weeks in a Volkswagen campervan with a Scottish guy named Lachlan and a Dutch guy [...]

Maddy, at age 3. View larger.
Maybe I should just buy one of these plastic things that Maddy’s holding. My Canon A80 has officially bit the dust, the casualty of a bottle of guava-tinged water purchased at the Whole Foods cafe and only partially consumed, then emptying into a pool in my bag because I hadn’t [...]

A second picture from my lunch walk series that I started a week ago. I haven’t made a set yet, ’cause there are only two pics so far. Haven’t taken any lunch walk photos this week, which will have to be remedied soon. Today’s weather was brilliant and warm — around 20C! (68F!) — but [...]