Puerto Rican Parrots - and an Iguana

rob | animal, travel | Saturday, July 19th, 2008


Puerto Rican Parrots

These beautiful Puerto Rican Parrots are endangered but have been making a comeback (it is possible the birds we’re seeing aren’t exactly the PR Parrots but they could be a variation) CORRECTION: These are Red-masked Parakeets. They only live in Puerto Rico. Every now and then when we visit we’ll see a flock flying around. Today a group of about 7 landed close. I hate that the photos a bit blurry, but I maxed out my zoom and still had to crop tight. A couple more…


2 Puerto Rican Parrots

And there are, believe it or not, 5 parrots in this one. You may need to see the large version to find them. Can you spot the 5?


Can You Find All 5?

Also got to see a huge iguana sunning himself.


Iguana Sunning Himself

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What I saw early this morning

rob | photo, travel | Friday, July 18th, 2008

Sometimes there is a reward for getting up early in Puerto Rico.


Sunrise over El Yunque



Moonset in the Morning

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Alaska Photos Finally Online

rob | animal, photo, travel | Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Sorry it’s taken so long, but I finally got about a fourth of the shots I took online. Below is a sampling, however you can go ahead and skip to the set or the slide show.

Wild Moose

Snowy Vista

Sea Otter closeup

Orcas Pass By

Sea Lions spread out

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Relocate-America’s™ 2008 Top 100 Places to Live

rob | navel gazing, travel | Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The place I grew up made #4.
Many places I would move to made the list, including #10.
The place I currently live didn’t make the list.  Longing much?

Real Estate and Home Buying Site- Relocate-America’s™ 2008 Top 100 Places to Live

Throughout the year, we accept nominations for cities & towns throughout the country to be considered as a “great place to live”. The nominating parties must include their own reasons why they feel their city should make the list. The nominations, along with key data regarding education, environmental greenworthiness, economic opportunity, parks & recreation choices and real estate & home ownership options are reviewed, rated & judged by our editorial team. We list the TOP 100 places to live and rank the TOP 10 on consistency and number of nominations received.

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Stopping in Downtown Anchorage

rob | photo, travel | Monday, May 12th, 2008

Stopping in Downtown Anchorage, originally uploaded by orangejack.

I’m getting some of our Alaska photos up on Flickr. So far they are mostly from various times we went to downtown Anchorage.

I have a lot of animal pics to get up here soon too so stay tuned.

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Alaska is Big, Cold, and the Sun is funny

rob | travel | Monday, May 12th, 2008

I’m still working on getting about 100 photos ready to put online with the stories to tell. Keep watching for them.

In the mean time, here are a few graphics I found to be very interesting and put the great state of Alaska into perspective.

Our weather was great while we were there. It was a nice, cool temperature. A few times I was cold, but mostly it was a comfortable 40s during the day. Not sure it ever got below freezing though it did snow (non-sticking) the first morning we were there.

But the thing that was most difficult to get used to which I thought was just crazy was how light it was in the evenings! The sun wasn’t setting until about 11:30 pm. It was so strange and it threw me off a bit. It looked like 5 pm outside when it was 9:30 at night!

We had a great time though and I think I’d go back to Anchorage any time of the year again — as long as I’ve got the warm clothes to endure!

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Updating My Map

rob | travel | Thursday, May 8th, 2008

I will get stories and photos up but for now just wanted to update my map.

Alaska Added to My States Visited

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Vacationing in Anchorage

rob | travel | Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

You might remember we were supposed to go to Alaska on vacation back in February but at the last minute we had to reschedule.

So this afternoon we’re trying again! We plan to fly out of MCO (Orlando) around 5:30 pm. Connecting through Salt Lake City, we arrive in Anchorage some hours later. The time change is confusing me as to when we actually get there.

Anyway, I hope to take a lot of photos and I’ll share them as I’m able. I don’t plan to be online a lot but we both know I will. We fly home May 7 on the red-eye.

We’ve cashed in frequent flier miles for both of us and we’re staying and hanging out with friends. Since our costs to get and stay there are very low, we’re going to try and take advantage of a few things:

We’re really excited about it! So we’ll catch up later…

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no alaska

rob | travel | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

sigh

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Alaska

rob | travel | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Whew! Now that we got the orangejack stuff worked out, I’m going to Alaska.

Yep. Patricia and I are flying today to Atlanta and spend the night there to catch an early flight to Anchorage (via a few other cities).

We’re cashing in some frequent flier miles and hotel points to go visit Patricia’s BFF living in Alaska. They will move this summer so this was our best time to go.

I think they still have internets there so I’ll be checking in from time to time. Besides, we’re probably not going outside much! It won’t be THAT bad though, I hope.

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Shadow Landing

rob | travel, video | Friday, November 16th, 2007

Shot this on my Treo this morning as we were coming into the Atlanta airport from Orlando. It was such a nice, clear morning with the fall colors. And following the shadow of our approach was kinda cool.

I was probably supposed to have my electronics turned off. I won’t tell if you won’t. ;-)


YouTube - Shadow Landing

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Our Mediterranean Cruise

rob | travel | Friday, October 26th, 2007

On board the Princess EmeraldIn September of 2007, Patricia and I were really fortunate to be able to go on a family cruise vacation on board the Princess Emerald in the Mediterranean Sea. I finally have photos and blog posts about each city we went to online. I’m writing this post to pull it all together (an index if you will).

So here is the list of cities we went to on our entire vacation with links to the blog post summary and photo set for each:

Enjoy! I know we did.

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