Month: August 2016

Route 66 plan

ByByron August 28, 2016 2 Comments
Route 66, or the Mother Road, is a fairly famous American highway that was built in the mid 1920's, and was one of the first of the US highway system. There is a fairly long Wikipedia post about it here.  It has been rebuilt and re-aligned many times over the years, and since the adoption of the Interstate system in the late 50's, it has, unfortunately, disappeared to a large extent. We...

Desert ready!

ByByron August 28, 2016 1 Comment
I've started looking at temperatures in the first few cities we'll be passing though. LA has consistently be in the high 20's. Not bad...Vegas and Death Valley have been high 30's though, and it doesn't look like it'll be cooling any time soon. So, since Sandra has been using my first helmet since she started riding (yes, we both have unusually large pumpkins), and it's black, we decided it might...

Going to bring some…film!

ByByron August 31, 2016 2 Comments
Yes, film! I still have several film cameras and equipment to use with them. My best camera is an oldie - a Zenza Bronica ETR from the 70's. It's a Japanese-made medium format camera, which means it takes negatives (or slides) that are 4.5cmx6cm, so they are quite a bit larger than those using 35mm film (or a DSLR). Yes, I know you're saying "Film, why would you use film when digital is so...

Thanks for visiting!

ByByron August 23, 2016 1 Comment
Well, the story goes that I will be turning 50 this year, on the 10th day of September. I am not sure I really believe the story, as it seems, so far at least, to have gone extremely quickly! Oh well, I've accepted that it's all true, and have decided that I want to start the second half of my century by doing something exciting. Something unforgettable. Something...unusual. So, I decided that...