Tag Archives: Travel

Travel Theme: Walls

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Walls.

Kayaking around the highly urban New York Harbor, we pass by many colorful and inspirational walls…

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More on the marine art of New York Harbor is here.

Travel Theme: Up, Take Two

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Up. We’ve already posted one response, but here’s another one.

Looking up in NYC’s Central Park…

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Travel Theme: Up

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Up.

Looking up, trees and, above them, clouds…

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A second “Up” post is here.

Travel Theme: Glass

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Glass.

But I didn’t have to travel very far for these glasses…

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Travel Theme: Multiples

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Multiples.

I seem to recall that it was Couples just a few short weeks ago. And now it’s Multiples already? To be sure, it’s quite natural—

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Out With the Old, In With the New

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is New.

The leaves of the old year blaze forth in a last burst of color. But among the old, at first almost unnoticed, are already the buds

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that, as the last old leaf drops away, await the new year!

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(Magnolias, Central Park, New York City)

Happy 2013!

Travel Theme: Transportation

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Transportation.

It’s amazing how much stuff can be transported in a sea kayak! When setting out on a kayak expedition, there’s no need to leave the creature comforts at home. Compared to a multiday backpacking or bicycle trip, a sea kayak expedition is a positively luxurious experience

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… until each morning, when all that stuff has to be fitted back into the kayaks

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We put off the packing as long as we possibly can and stand around drinking coffee

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It’s such a relief to have the last bag in the boat, to snap on the sprayskirt and push off into new waters…

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(Photos from our 2011 Albany to New York trip and our 2012 Long Island circumnavigation)

Travel Theme: Circles

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Circles.

Here are some natural circles.

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Travel Theme: Hot

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Hot.

Cooking can be hot work…

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Travel Theme: Spooky

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s Travel-Themed photo challenge this eek is Spooky.

This is still an old photo, from Halloween 2011. But I will head out any day now to take fresh photos of this year’s Halloween decorations that are now cropping up in our neighborhood. It should be a spooky Halloween this year…

… unless of course Hurricane Sandy spooks us out first. Current forecasts have it arriving in New York City precisely on Halloween!