“The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove, the hills of the Highlands for ever I love.”
Robert Burns
Category: 2015
Helsinki :: I ate bear
“I ate a Danish. Better than eating someone from Finland.”
Jarod Kintz
Hawaii: Pearl Harbor 2 – The USS Arizona
Now, the USS Arizona was the number 1 item on my list of things to see on Oahu. The Arizona was a battleship moored in Pearl Harbor the day of the Japanese attack, but it was made famous when a armor-piercing bomb hit the bow and ignited the munitions battery below, causing what might have been the biggest, single explosion during the attack, killing over one thousand men instantly. Continue reading
Hawaii: Pearl Harbor 1 – The USS Bowfin
Today was an eventful day… I got up at 0530 am to get ready for my guided tour/trip. Discovering Hawaii Tours had a pretty sweet deal where you get to visit Pearl Harbor (including entry to the USS Bowfin submarine, a trip out to the USS Arizona Memorial and all the museums on the grounds), then they take you to the USS Missouri where you get a guided tour of the battleship and some time to stomp around on your own, before they take you to the Aviation Museum and Hangar 79, before you end up with a visit to the “Punchbowl” (National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific). Between there we actually made a stop at the statue of King Kamehameha and “Hawaii 5-0 headquarters”!! Psyched! I had that on my list of things to do 😀 Continue reading
Hawaii: Hiking Diamond Head
I put “hiking” on my list for Hawaii because it’s a gorgeous place with plenty of weird plants and wildlife and I wanted to see it up close. Continue reading
San Francisco: The Night Tour
I’ve already ranted about the night tour so this will be brief… Actually, I don’t have a great camera so the pictures wont be that great either, why am I doing this post? Continue reading
San Francisco: The Day Tour & Sausalito
Well, whaddayaknow… Big Bus operates in San Francisco too… I had originally planned on not taking a bus tour here, but seeing as they had a night tour I couldn’t resist. There’s something about a city all lit up at night… It’s one of my favourite things to see. Continue reading
San Francisco: BART & art (and weed)
“San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.”
~ Paul Kantner
Miami: Lock & Load!
This day we got to cross Lock & Load off our list of things to do. It was awesome! I’ve never shot with anything bigger than a handgun before and I got to spend a portion of my day tearing up targets with stuff that goes boomboom very fast and very loud. Continue reading
Key West: The chilled out sort of crazy
After the Everglades adventure we stopped for a little something to eat and continued our journey to the southernmost point on the continental US: Key West. Continue reading
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