A few shots from On This Day last year in Scotland.
On This Day in 2023: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. 🪵🐇
On This Day in 2019, I brought my dad up to an ASU football practice at Camp Tontozona, its annual training camp that’s located in the cool pines just under the Mogollon Rim. Camp T has been an annual tradition for more than six decades now.
A runway that changed the world
On this day 79 years ago, this runway on the small island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands changed the world. It was from this stretch of remote pavement that the Enola Gay took to the air with a ferocious new weapon, headed to Hiroshima to inflict unbelievable damage.
We visited the then-abandoned site in 2017 as part of our travel quest to visit all the major sites associated with the Manhattan Project.
Owning your music. Again.
Kelly Sims wrote some thoughts on Ownership in the Rental Age:
And so I find myself once again thinking about ownership. I owned this music, as much as anyone can really own anything these days. I took time to curate the music and time to carefully rip the CD’s into a portable format. Now, as I look through the songs I had added to Apple match, a large portion of them are now DRM’d as Apple Music files. I can’t ever take them to listen on some other player, which means I do not own these anymore. I effectively sold them to Apple for free. And in exchange for this “sale” I get to listen to some of them some of the time, all when Apple and the music licensing gods decide.
I’m right there with you, Kelly. This was the same issue I’ve faced. And for much of the last decade, I had essentially given up on the whole damn thing.
Until earlier this year. I upgraded my computer, added a home NAS, and decided that I was going to reclaim my music library. A branch of the Phoenix Public Library is just a couple blocks away from my house. So a few seconds to set up a hold request on some music I used to own, select the local branch as the destination, and a day or two later, walk over and pick up the CD, and via a $25 external cd drive, rip it to my computer.
And thereby, own it once again.
I’m a few days late, but finally posted a recap of July 2024. Not sure if I’ll do these each month, but wanted to give it a go at least once.
#blaugust2024 #100DaystoOffload #blogging
📷 One of my favorite parts of visiting London last year was touring the Churchill War Rooms. Seems nearly comical that they were conducting the war by using push pins in a wall map. How times have changed. OTD 2023
📷 Look up. OTD in 2023
I finally got around to posting a personal introduction for Blaugust 2024.
Since I’m going to blog on multiple sites during the challenge, I’ll keep a list of them all on this page.
#Blaugust2024
Along the Glenn Highway, Alaska - OTD 2018
Arizona has some interesting place names, and the town of Show Low in the White Mountains has one of the best naming stories around. OTD in 2020.
The especially little part of the Little Colorado River. OTD in 2020
Choosing where to go when you can go anywhere: how we’ve been thinking about our upcoming 100 day trip. #blaugust2024
I visited an unexpected memorial OTD in 2008—that you’d expect in Washington DC, not along the Indiana/Illinois border.
OTD in 2019, we landed a bush plane in between 3 active wildfires in the remote Coal Creek area of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in eastern Alaska. I really need to blog about this whole episode—one of my fav adventure stories—but a smoky photo of the Yukon River will have to do for today.
Blaugust 2024
I’m participating in Blaugust 2024, though I’m not intending to post every day. But it’s always fun to have a bit of extra motivation to hit the publish button.
I’ll collect all the relevant posts here, as I’ll likely post on more than one site.
4/31
Bumpass Hell, a hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park, might just have the very best place name in the national parks system. Here’s a short video from our last visit, OTD in 2022.
A few shots of Denali, “The Great One,” from our visit OTD six years ago. We were very fortunate to have clear views nearly the entire day.
I wrote about my favorite breweries and taprooms in Arizona, an easy way to share some suggestions for visiting friends. #100DaystoOffload