Topic
travel
- Pulteney Bridge
Pulteney Bridge. Bath, England.
- Chiesa Di Santa Maria Formosa
Chiesa di Santa Maria Formosa. Venice, Italy.
- Rio De San Zulian
Rio de San Zulian. Venice, Italy.
- Grand Canal
Venice’s Grand Canal). Taken from the Rialto Bridge, 2014.
- Bixby Creek Bridge
Bixby Creek Bridge. Big Sur, California. The PCH is a national treasure.
- Libreria Acqua Alta
The “fire exit” at Libreria Acqua Alta. Venice, Italy. Made the trek here in 2014. They keep the books in floating vessels — boats and bathtubs — to keep them safe in when “acqua alta” floods happen.
- Sidi Bou Said
The blue and white architecture of Sidi Bou Said. Tunis, Tunisia.
- Temple Des Eaux
Temple des Eaux. Zaghouan, Tunisia. Built by the Romans to supply the city of Carthage with water from its sacred spring. Visited in 2014.
- Subterranean Monolithic Church Of Saint Jean
In 2016 we visited Aubeterre in south France. This was inside of the subterranean monolithic Church of Saint-Jean , hollowed out of the mountainside in the 7th century.
- Nearbywiki Wikipedia Places Nearby
Neat tool for the curious when traveling.
- San Francisco
I'm out in San Francisco for a few days. We've got typical SF weather — big change from the Florida summer suncoast. Got a few meetings to hit, but we've got a sailing trip set for Tuesday evening. Hope the weather st…
- Denver
This week I'm in Denver for a couple of days for an event. A little cool weather break from the already-approaching Florida summer. I'm staying out in the flatlands near the airport, and got a chance to get a run in.…
- Starship Mission to Mars
Beautiful and inspiring stuff from SpaceX: A convincing case for Elon to put his focus all-in on SpaceX, and not 6 other ventures at once.
- Summer Trip
Last week we did a fun end-of-summer trip across Florida. We procrastinated figuring out a plan for doing something with the kids before school starts back this month. The kids have never been to any of the famous Cen…
- Vacation Photos
We just wrapped a week on the beach. 10 adults, 10 kids, 3 houses. A few highlights:
- Vacation
Next week us and the local family will be at Anna Maria Island for what is largely a "staycation" — a week at a beach house about 45 minutes from home. We'll see how things work with trying to stay semi-quarantined wh…
- Miami
We're in Miami for a couple of days for an event to talk about AI and meet some companies working in the space. After getting in I was able to fit in a nice run around Brickell Key. Beautiful weather.
- An Island Chain
I’m an airplane window seat guy. So when on a flight with good views, I end up gazing out the window for most of the time and capturing my own aerial imagery. Our Monday flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Juan took us…
- San Juan
We’re in San Juan this week for the NetHope Global Summit. Through our partnership with NetHope, a non-profit devoted to bringing technology to disaster relief and humanitarian projects, we’re hosting a hands-on works…
- Cape Canaveral
We took the kids over to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday on the way up to Jacksonville. A quick stopover in Titusville Friday night then morning over at the Cape. I always loved visiting KSC when I was younger. We ha…
- The Deadly Logistics of Everest
Earlier this week I finished reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, his account of climbing Mount Everest and surviving the 1996 Everest disaster. The book reads like a thriller, giving the account of how an expedition…
- A Growing Geo Community: Takeaways from FOSS4G NA 2019
I had a great time last week out in San Diego for this year's FOSS4G-NA. This post I wrote for the company blog runs down general conference takeaways, plus a wavetops overview with best-of sessions I attended. It was…
- Notre Dame
The news of the fire at Notre Dame in Paris was devastating to follow along with as the blaze continued to spread throughout the day on Monday of this week. Many people from the office and on Twitter were reminiscing…
- San Diego April 2019
I’m here in San Diego for the week for the FOSS4G North America conference. Today there was a “B2B / Government” focus day, hosted at the Mission Bay Marina Conference Center, a gorgeous spot right on the waterfront.…
- FOSS4G North America 2019
Next week Joe and I will be out in San Diego for FOSS4G-NA 2019. This'll be my first one since I think 2012. There's always an excellent turnout and strong base of good folks to catch up with. This year they've put to…
- A Drive Through Central Florida
We just got back this evening from a long weekend trip up to Jacksonville for medical follow-up and to visit with friends. It's about a 4 hour drive from St. Pete, and I usually do a route that takes us up I-75 to aro…
- Sierra Nevada, Basin and Range
One of the highlights of the west → east flight from Northern California is the chance to get views over the ranges of California, Nevada, and Colorado. The first leg of my flight home this week took me from San Jose…
- The Salton Sea
I don't remember what got me to it, but the other day I found this short documetary video about Southern California's Salton Sea, a saline lake about 80 miles inland from San Diego: I knew about its infamy as a failed…
- Kicking Off SaaStr
Today was day 1 of the 3-day SaaStr Annual, my third one. Each year they up their game in terms of size and session quality. Logistics are much improved at the larger San Jose Convention Center. The team at SaaStr did…
- San Jose
We just touched down in San Jose this afternoon, here for the SaaStr Annual conference. An uneventful flight through LAX, arriving around 1pm local time here in California. One of my favorite things about westbound tr…
- Energy & Geography in 2050
Another great Geography2050 is in the books. This year’s focus was on energy, and as you might expect much of the panel discussion and subject matter expertise was on renewable energy sources and climate change respon…
- New York City
Every year we make the trek to New York City for the annual Geography 2050 conference, the pillar event organized and hosted by the American Geographical Society. We’re staying in Times Square and the event is uptown…
- Fenway Park
A few weeks back I had an opportunity to catch a game at Fenway Park for the first time. That’s definitely a bucket list item checked off. Tim got tickets last minute, some great seats down past the bend on the third…
- Recent Links: Playing with Numbers, Logistics Networks, Vancouver Island
🎓 Numbers at Play: Dynamic Toys Make the Invisible Visible Great tools keep up with their users. They operate at the speed of thought, ever shrinking the feedback loop between conceiving of an idea and exploring its…
- Amicalola and Dahlonega
Since we never get out and about much on trips up to Atlanta, this time we took a trip out to Amicalola Falls up in the North Georgia mountains, near Dawsonville. I forget where I started googling around looking at wa…
- The Main Road Through the Heart of Africa
Robert Draper spent time traveling the Congo River on barges that function as mobile cities to the hundreds of small remote villages along its shores. Dawn hasn’t yet broken, but already coal fires are burning and wom…
- Tunisia
I recently took a trip to Tunis to attend the GCT-Tunisia conference, a geospatial industry event focused on capacity building and promotion of mapping tools in the fluid and exciting region of North Africa. It was a…
- Cabbage Key
I spent last weekend with the family at Cabbage Key, an island near Charlotte Harbor, in southwest Florida. It's only visitable by boat, so we launched the Shamrock on Friday morning to head over to the cottage, inclu…
- Preparing for Kayaks and Scalloping in Weeki Wachee
We're headed to Weeki Wachee this weekend to do some scalloping, kayaking, and diving. We'll be hanging out up at the springs and (hopefully) catching our limit in bay scallops out on the sea grass. On Sunday I was up…