It certainly was a long day, but in reality, we made it home before we actually left. The power of the International Date Line I guess. After being away for 28 hours we were glad to be back in our own bed after 50-days of travel. It seemed a little easier and quicker coming home from Auckland this time only a 12h20m flight to San Francisco as opposed to our last flight from Sydney a year ago. Beyond the five hours of sitting in the airport waiting for our conne...

It's always good to get home. We've been away from our base for about 36 days, we've slept in different beds since we've left and it's good to get home and close your eyes in familiar surroundings. We likely traveled close to 22,000 miles since we left, by both ocean and air, we've seen so many different cultures but it's nice to be home. As is normally the case, I've attached some 66,000 words in photos that I took along the way. While these are only just of fe...

I take photographs so that I can use them as a return ticket to spectacular moments in time, moments for me that might otherwise be gone forever. I take photos to recall places - with greater vibrancy. Those photos, those experiences have shaped me and made me who I am right now. I take photos to the bridge distances and shorten time, to provide a legacy to the little things and real life that can too soon be forgotten. I take photos so that I can feel like an a...

We made it home - safe and sound and it's good to get back.

It's been a very long time since we've had to wait for this vacation since we returned from Tennessee but our departure date has finally arrived. We've decided that with our early a.m. flight on Friday to Los Angeles we would drive into the city with Tom & Jamie and stay at the Holiday Inn in Richmond because they will keep our car for a week at no charge (included in our room rate) and that way we can just hop the shuttle bus into YVR in the a.m. Because we...