Posted: March 9th, 2018 | Filed under: Out Of Town
Northlandz in Flemington, New Jersey in insane/inspired — eight miles of model trains:
The great thing about the museum is that it has this brilliant dark/dystopian touch that undercuts your usual expectations of model trains. It sort of starts out sunny:
But then you notice odd touches, like a delivery truck that has run off the road:
. . . and train disasters:
. . . heaps of junked trains:
. . . nightmare cliff dwellings looking like something Hieronymus Bosch conjured:
. . . and of course a plane crash:
Posted: February 28th, 2018 | Filed under: Out Of Town
Spent eight nights in Puerto Rico, five in Guánica and three in San Juan.
February 15, 2018
Flew into San Juan and drove down to the south part of the island . . .
Settled in at Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa:
February 16, 2018
Shopped in Yauco before going out to dinner:
February 17, 2018
Short trip to Porta Coeli and Finca el Girasol:
February 18, 2018
Sandra Farms coffee farm:
February 20, 2018
Up to San Juan and a visit to El Morro in Old San Juan:
February 21, 2018
El Yunque National Forest and Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve in Fajardo:
Plus dinner at Jose Enrique in Santurce:
February 22, 2018
A big walk around Old San Juan:
Followed by a dip in the rooftop pool at Ciqala Suites:
Posted: August 4th, 2016 | Filed under: Manhattan
Mr. Kiddo is four now, and in the last few weeks or so he has been super interested in geology after obsessing over this NOVA series. So we went to the Natural History Museum the other day to go check out “the rocks” (read: Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems). Mr. Kiddo wanted to take the shitty camera that we inherited from some job like three jobs ago and which has been passed down to the boys to do with whatever they want. First, it has a really dirty lens:
Also, the battery was really old/dying, so eventually I just gave him the cell phone, which has actually a pretty good camera. He came up with this:
It’s fun/funny to do this — kind of like next generation big mapping — will likely do more, based on his interests . . .
