Travel experiences, memories and stories about exploring this great planet of ours

Lake JindabyneNew South Wales, Australia During my trek across the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, we pitstopped at this beautiful man-made lake conveniently located on the eastern slopes to fish and spend the night at the local backpackers. The lake was formed by the dams constructed in the Snowy Mountains Scheme and thereby receives [...]

Lake Light Sculpture* www.lakelightsculpture.com.au, Lake Jindabyne, New South Wales, Australia * This giant round metal artistic ball sculpture was a bit of intrigue for me and Marco as we drove by it while travelling from Cooma to Lake Jindabyne. “What in the world?” as it was fenced off and located in the middle of nowhere. [...]

Widow’s Bane at Brethrencon 2010 * Saturday, 18 September 2010 Performance * Brethrencon 2010 * Denver Airport Marriott * 16455 E. 40th Circle * Aurora / Denver, Colorado * http://www.myspace.com/widowsbane * facebook * Rocking the banquet hall, direct from the grave, as the risen dead came “Widow’s Bane”, a motley crew of zombies en-trancing their [...]

Brethrencon 2010 ~ A Pirate’s Life For Me! * Denver Airport Marriott * 16455 E. 40th Circle * Aurora / Denver, Colorado * http://www.brethrencon.com/ * Phone: 720-841-8959 * Email: captaindrake@sunkenbones.com * A first ever Pirate Conference in the Rocky Mountains’ Metropolis “Denver, Colorado”. Hosted at the Airport Marriott in the suburb of Aurora, pirates and [...]

The Temple of Flux Burning Man 2010 * Black Rock City, Nevada * www.temple2010.org * Designed and constructed by Rebecca Anders, Jessica Hobbs, Peter Kimmelman and their crew from Berkeley, California. This year’s temple stands as a counter-monument rather than the usual Burning Man temple that echoes the churches and mosques of history. It serves [...]

“Bliss Dance” * http://earth.burningman.com/brc/art_installation/758/ * Burning Man 2010 * Black Rock City, Nevada * Contact Email: production@blissdance.org * An extroadinary art piece at Burning Man 2010 by Lloyd Taylor that I’d have to say was my most favorite art piece. A unique steel sculpture made of cutting edge design replicating the human form as a [...]

Burning Man 2010: Metropolis * Black Rock City, Nevada * Monday, 30 August 2010 through Monday 6 September 2010 * Every year, in the heart of the Nevada Desert, a city known as Black Rock City is constructed to host the Burning Man Festival. It is a completely self-sustainable thriving metropolis of artists, freaks, scientists, [...]

Gerlach, Nevada, USA: Gerlach was founded with the construction of the Feather River Route of the Western Pacific Railroad from 1905-1909. Very much tied with Empire, Gerlach is the larger of the two towns on the edige of Black Rock Desert. Combined population with Empire is about 500 according to the 2000 Census. Both towns [...]

Burning Man Festival Black Rock City, Nevada Burning Man is a week long arts and entertainment, sustainable and self-reliance festival that occurs every year embracing Labor Day. From 1986 until 1989 there was a Summer Solstice bonfire ritual held on Baker Beach in San Francisco by Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and their friends. Here they [...]