Archive for the 'Chillaxin' Category

Snow!! In San Francisco?? In September?!?!

Icer Air 2005

Originally uploaded by blakeseely.

UPDATE: As always, one of the best ways to see photos from the event is through Flickr’s tags and “most interesting” features. Here’s a link.
I drove over to Pacific Heights today and watched Icer Air 2005. It was about 90-degrees [...]

Four Score, and One Year Ago

One year ago today, I got on a plane and headed to New Zealand for two weeks. I had a ticket, my backpack, some cash, and not much else. I hadn’t even cracked a book about New Zealand; I had no plans; I had no reservations. It was perfect. I knew I wanted to snowboard [...]

Burning Men of Old

The Temple from 2003

Originally uploaded by blakeseely.

Now that I’ve got this year’s Burning Man photos up, I went through and posted my photos from 2003 as well. (I didn’t take a single picture in 2004). Some of the temples and structures in 2003 were amazing! [...]

What’s Left? More Than Just Ashes.

Burning Man was a blast last week. I find Burning Man is impossible to describe to try to relive – so this will probably be a drawn-out, wandering post about things I did and saw there.
Every year, preparing for a week in the desert is fun, but stressful. How much to bring? Have to have [...]

Flame on!

Burning Man 2005 officially started this morning at 12:01am. San Francisco was full of RVs, trucks, and trailers all weekend. And I was preparing, shopping, and packing all weekend as well. I head up to Black Rock City with Doug and Claudia on Tuesday night. (We’ll probably arrive at the city around 2am. Ugh.). If [...]

Glowing San Diego

This weekend, Lori, Matt, and I headed down to San Diego to stay with Ian & Christina. We flew down there on Thursday afternoon and took Friday off work. Our flight was delayed out of SFO because… wait for it… the windshield de-icer was broken. Even at altitude, I don’t think there’s much ice between [...]

Kauai

I went with Tom on one of the SD6 trips over the Fourth of July. The trip was to the Na’Pali coast of Kauai. I’ll put some pictures up this weekend.
Update: I posted some pictures here