For my fiftieth Friday Flashback I picked this bucolic photo from the small village of Hay-on-Wye. One of the highlights from my fall 2018 3-week trip to the UK was my visit to Hay. Located on the England/Wales border (but decidedly in Wales as I was reminded on more than one occasion), this is the... Continue Reading →
2018 saw the passing of both Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the co-creators of Spider-Man. The hero is one of the most recognizable and popular in the world, and a lot of that comes from Lee and Ditko's original 40 or so Spidey stories (38 issues of Amazing Spider-Man, plus Amazing Fantasy #15 and 2... Continue Reading →
This is my favorite part of London, on the South Bank, with the Millennium Bridge connecting the area around St. Paul's Cathedral to the Bankside area of the city, across the Thames. This is normally where I stay (right around the corner from the bridge) and it's such a vibrant part of an amazingly vibrant... Continue Reading →
I take the ferry from Coronado to San Diego 4 days a week, back and forth. It's an amazing way to commute (and includes about a half-hour walk each way, so I get some exercise in, too). On days when I get the smaller of the two ferry boats, the Silvergate (pictured here), it's even... Continue Reading →
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