Skiing’s best kept secret: Big Sky, MT
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008[Sorry, somehow this post got accidentally deleted. I will try to replace it soon.]
Archive for the ‘Activities, Travel, Vacations’ Category
Sun ‘n Fun Airshow at Lakeland, FL
Monday, April 14th, 2008I took a much deserved day off work on Friday and attended the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In and Air Show in Lakeland, Florida with my buddy Les. It was a beautiful day for an airshow and this was quite an airshow.
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First we walked around and looked at all the homebuilt airplanes that were there for the fly-in. Then we walked around all the vendor exhibits for a while. Then we watched the airshow and it was quite impressive. Then after a dinner break, they put on a very cool night airshow. And after that, they put on the most spectacular fireworks display I think I’ve even seen in my entire life! It was quite a day. Here is a short video compilation that I posted to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UqFCnRzDso
And here are some of the photos I took:
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Kurt
GEF Light the Way 5K
Saturday, January 19th, 2008The Gilchrist Educational Foundation had about 300 runners and walkers in their 2nd annual Light the Way 5K race this morning. The weather was cool and foggy which made it very nice for running. I walked the 5K rather briskly while pushing both boys in the stroller and “Team Leucht” completed it in about 46 and a half minutes I’m happy with that time since it was about 5 minutes faster than my walking time in last year’s race.
Complete race results can be found here at the Running Zone website.
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Historic Sportscar Racing at Daytona International Speedway
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Today I attended the Daytona Continental Historic Races at the Daytona International Speedway. This event is organized by the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) organization, and is just one of about 10 historic sportscar racing events that it organizes each year throughout the country. According to the HSR website, “Historic racing series such as HSR represent the fastest growing segment of motorsports in the United States and Europe.” It was an exciting day and I had a lot of fun watching these vintage cars compete against each other on the racetrack. I recorded a little bit of video with my pocket digital still camera and edited it into a four and a half minute compilation. You can watch my video compilation on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwrNkTx42o
Click on any photo below to go to my online photo gallery where you can download a higher resolution version:
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This is an event that I will definitely take my boys to when they are a bit older.
Kurt
Pikes Peak & Hot Air Balloon
Sunday, August 19th, 2007I took the below photo in Colorado Springs a few days ago. I was there for business and went outside to exercise the first morning I was there and this is what I saw. I had my Canon PowerShot digital camera in my pocket because I had promised my boys that I would take a photo of the mountains and send it to them that day. There were actually three separate hot air balloons that took off from this location that morning. I sure would have liked to go for a ride and see the mountains from the vantage point of a hot air balloon!
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contains higher resolution versions of this image.
Photos from New York City trip
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007My work recently sent me to NYC for a few days. In between work I was able to see some sights. My main sightseeing goals were to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. I also wanted to see a Broadway Musical while I was there. I bought my ticket to see “Curtains” starring David Hyde Pierce & Debra Monk about a week before the trip. I sat in the 3rd row center! Wow, that was awesome!
Everything else that I got to see while I was there was just icing on the cake … especially getting a standby seat for The Late Show with David Letterman. I never dreamed I’d actually get a seat in the audience with little or no notice! I got to experience some great local food and got to walk quite a bit around Manhattan. My feet and legs tell me that I walked around a little too much!
Kurt
Trip to San Francisco & Silicon Valley
Friday, September 29th, 2006Last week I was in the Silicon Valley for a work related conference. I wish I’d had my camera with me when I was walking between the San Jose convention center and my downtown hotel, because I saw something that you probably won’t see outside of Silicon Valley … a homeless man with a laptop computer. He was sitting against the theatre building on the corner of West San Carlos Street and South Market Street plugged into an exterior outlet on the side of the building. With his laptop sitting on a cardboard box, he was typing away at his keyboard. It looked like he had what could have been a USB WiFi device plugged in. There’s WiFi all around Silicon Valley … even on their Light Rail System.Another thing I saw that I don’t think you’ll see much of anywhere else but in Silicon Valley was a vending machine in my hotel lobby that sold snacks, but it also sold electronic cables, wireless headphones, and even a $200 iPod nano. I’m pretty sure you have to swipe your credit card for the iPod. Can you imagine paying 200 bucks for an iPod in a vending machine and it getting hung up like a bag of chips?! Then the next person gets two for the price of one! Only in Silicon Valley.Well, here are a couple of my photos from San Francisco. It was foggy and late in the day, so they’re not my best work.
Kurt
The world-famous Sea Lions at Pier 39 in San Francisco
The world-famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
The world-famous Cable Car Trolleys in San Francisco
The world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco
