http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , California , Fieldbrook en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:16:23 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:16:23 UTC I've been enjoying my last week at home getting everything ready to be gone again for 10 weeks. I've been staying very busy and productive but also very relaxed and in a nice flow as I putter around getting my list checked off. We'll be returning in the rainy season so it felt really good to get all the firewood put away the wood stove reinstalled and the garden mostly all cleaned up and r http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-196712.html I'm getting ready to head down South again for my final work week of the summer. Boy has the time been flying by in just 20 days 10 hours and 30 minutes Aug 31420pm I'll be touching down in Athens and meeting up with Tim again. I'm starting to get very excitedHere's a few pictures that I have taken of the tile project in progress. I wasn't able to completly finish before heading out but http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-191148.html I am close to half way through my time without Tim this summer. As I expected I've been keeping my self very busy. My mom sister and nieces were here at the beginning of June for a nice 3 day visit. We spent one day hiking around Elk's Head and College Cove just North of Trinidad and the next up at Fern Canyon and Prarie Creek Parks. They were fun outings especially the hike up Fern Canyon wh http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-175482.html These pictures were all taken on April 16 my birthday. We had been camping on Huahine for a little over a week and had spent most of our time hanging around the compound. On my birthday we rented bikes and rode around both Huahine Nui and Huahine Iti. It was about a 60 kilometer loop. The weather was perfect for most of the day cloudy we didn't have to endure the intense rays of the sun while http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-163701.html These pictures along with all the others in Polynesia were taken with Tim's new Optio W30 water proof camera. I was reluctant to actually put it in the salt water it just seemed so counterintuitive but when I did it performed perfectly. It was actually kind of difficult to capture the fish in focus and framed well. Most of the fish are very shy so would dart away quickly when approached. I http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-158082.html Apologies currently unable to restore. If you have a backup please edit this entry and savepublish.There is a small possibility that this entry will be restored only small. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-156566.html Well I've been home again for a few days from my travels in French Polynesia. I came home feeling a little wiped out and disoriented... French Polynesia was beautiful in many ways but the heat and humitity was a bit too much for my liking not to mention the expense and the bugs. Tim and I both got ill starting our third week and took almost a week to fully recover. Today my energy is getting b http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-156549.html Wow everything is happening. This Great force we've mustered is about to propel us out into the world at least for me the middle of the South Pacific My to do list is almost done just a few minor items like washing the dishes turn down the hot water heater and sit in the hottub Dinner is in there too left over lamb chops. Here's a few pictures I just took moments ago. The Day has been http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-144543.html I've been scanning in pictures of my last travels that I did in 199192 with my partner David. Though I've only got about half of the negatives scanned in from that trip I wanted to get some pictures up of David that have come up so far. David tought me how to snorkel the first summer we met in 1987 when we took a trip out to Catalina Island. He was a great swimmer and spear fisherman. I'll be t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-143727.html Arcata Community ForestnbspNorth America raquonbspUnited States raquonbspCalifornia raquonbspFieldbrook By FieldbrookMarch 29th 2007Dennis MeikleThis is where Tim and I have been doing our 'training hikes' for the past few weeks. We start at 14th and Union Streets on the border of HSU. It takes about an hour and a half to do our loop through the forest. It's a pretty good climb o http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-142969.html a hike up the coastnbspNorth America raquonbspUnited States raquonbspCalifornia raquonbspFieldbrook By FieldbrookMarch 25th 2007Dennis Meikle These are some pictures of a hike Tim and I just did on Friday along the Coastal Trail. The trail head starts on a bluff on the North side of the mouth of the Klamath River. It's about 45 minutes up the 101 from home. The trail goes North up th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-141918.html Bali 1992nbspNorth America raquonbspUnited States raquonbspCalifornia raquonbspFieldbrook By FieldbrookMarch 24th 2007Dennis MeikleI'm just starting to scan in pictures from the last time I traveled in 19911992. My Partner David and I traveled for 7 months starting in the Cook Islands then on to Fiji New Zealand Australia Indonesia Singapore and Thailand. It was quite an adv http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-141611.html getting readynbspNorth America raquonbspUnited States raquonbspCalifornia raquonbspFieldbrook By FieldbrookMarch 22nd 2007Dennis MeikleThese are some pictures taken with Tim's new Pentax Optio W30 camera. We took lots of them yesterday so that we could learn how to use the camera in it's various shooting modes. I'm pretty pleased with the results. I can't wait to try it out unde http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-140912.html Tim and I had a few more guests over for dinner and a hot tub last night. Dave Randy came down from Bridgeville and Damon was here for the first time since Tim's 39th Birthday Bash. It turned out to be a wet and rainy day but that just made the hottub all the nicer. Tim made an incredible meatloaf and another batch a flan that was just out of this world delicious. I can honestly say it was th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-140398.html Tim and I have been enjoying our time at home together this week. We've been staying busy with finalizing travel plans hiking in the Arcata forest and cleaning up things around the house and gardens as well as time for rest and play. Here are a few pics I took yesterday afternoon as we were getting ready to have our friends Barb Ron over for dinner. We had a beautiful sunny sky all day http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-139280.html Before hitting the road I wanted to visit some special people and places closer to home. My stops included San Francisco Hayward San Diego Los Angeles Harbin Hot Springs Redding and Eugene before heading home. In SF I stayed at the Belvedere House BB applied and received my travel visa for India dined with my cousins Denise and Jeff and picked up some last minute travel essentials. O http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-139279.html These are some photos I scanned last night that are from my first trip to Europe. I was traveling with my girlfriend of 3 12 years Teresa. Technically she wasn't really my girlfriend anymore. She decided to inform me of her love for a new boy while we were waiting for our plane at LAX to fly us off to London. The momentum was just too much for us not to get on the plane so off we went. I http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-132206.html These are self portraits I took shortly after geting back from my first trip to Europe in the Fall of 1984. I was 21 years old and just taking my first steps 'out of the closet'. I'll post some photos and stories of that trip when I get them scanned. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-132093.html These are more pictures of the '88 Europe Trip. Tim will be going to Paris and Amsterdam after we part in Rome this November. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-131906.html Just finished a round of scanning and wanted to get these images up of The Alhambra in Granada Spain for Tim. He'll be going there this August shortly before we meet up again. These photos were taken in in the Spring of 1988 on my travels with Mark. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-131589.html Tim left this morning on his 2 week road trip down to Southern California then back North for a week of staying with his Grandmother in Eugene so that his mother and Charlie can get away for a week or so. After he gets back it will be just a few weeks before we depart for The Society Islands in French Polynesia. I still can't believe it's happening. After Tim left this morning I went int http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Fieldbrook/blog-131527.html