I was recently asked by Angela K Nickerson from The Gypsy’s Guide on Twitter about my photo storage and backup scheme. Actually, she was asking ANYONE, but I piped in. It’s way too big of an answer for 140 characters, although I gave it my best shot, so I thought I’d expand a bit [...]
I just went looking for my original posts on starting out with Kiva and realized it was back in September of 2008. I really thought it hadn’t been that long, but that is something of a testament of how well the system works. It has been easy for me to re-loan money once it [...]
Yeah, that’s my longest post title yet and it’s all true!! Today IS your last chance to win some great prizes in the Passports With Purpose raffle. Each $10 you donate gets you one entry to the various raffles. All the proceeds go to the non-profit American Assistance for Cambodia and the efforts have been [...]
The new coupons are here! I’ll keep this short and simple, Smugmug, the company that Hidden Creek Photography’s site runs on, has finally made coupons available for me to use. And my first offer right out of the gate is to offer 25% off the entire site! Just use coupon code 25until2010 at checkout [...]
If you haven’t made a donation to Passports With Purpose, they’ve made things a bit easier. Perhaps you are the gaming type and wanted to wait to see where you had the best chance of winning. Wait no longer!
Debbie, Pam, Michele and Beth have just posted a list of the best chance prizes. And [...]
I have a soft spot for grassroots organizations trying to make a positive difference in this world. I also have a soft spot for people who want to build schools and educate children. I really BIG soft spot, actually. So when fellow travel writers Debbie, Pam, Beth and Michelle asked if I could donate [...]
Just in time for, well, 2010!! MOUNTAINS – 2010 is a collection of a dozen images I have shot over the last four years from the Rockies to the Cascades and Olympics to the Himalayas. I have been fortunate to travel to and live in locations with wonderful mountainscapes and this calendar is personally something [...]
“Swim with, not at.” That was the advice Captain Tori from Wild Side Hawai’i wanted us to remember most. Swim WITH the dolphins, not AT them. Sitting on the swim step of the Alaka’i, getting ready to slip into the water with mask, snorkel and fins on, I felt my heart rate increase. We [...]
“You’re going surfing, right?”
The question in response to mentioning I was heading to Hawaii seemed so obvious I didn’t want to look silly for not thinking of it. “Of course!” came my reply, enthusiastically, but with a little too much hesitation. There was one big problem with my answer, I don’t know how to surf.
To [...]
A funny thing happens when a flashlight is aimed at the waters of the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii’s Big Island. Lights at night attract plankton. Plankton attracts mantra rays. And manta rays attract divers from all over the globe to visit Hawaii’s Kona Coast for a spectacular dive well suited to any skill level. [...]
