The Karakorum highway crosses the backbone of Asia, connecting Chinese Turkestan and Pakistan. The Kunjerab Pass, at 15397ft, is probably the highest border crossing in the world. This shows the highway as it leaves Kashgar headed for the Pamir Plateau.
I love this sign. Found it in the middle of the Wadi Rum desert in southern Jordan near the border with Saudi Arabia. Originally the train line was built to carry pilgrims to Jeddah, but it has long been abandoned.
We don’t have a lot of sun up here in the Pacific Northwest, but we do have some interesting combinations of weather and scenery. While the rest of the country is frozen or under snow, up here everything is verdant, lush, moist, spongy, misty – even sometimes mystical. And it somehow makes the morning coffee taste that much better. Outside, the only sounds are the occasional fog horn, an egret, or perhaps a sea lion. Or the low rumble of the Bremerton ferry…
Sometimes it just strikes you.
This is the feeling you get when you stick one foot out over Coonskin, which drops away to the town of Telluride 1,800 feet below. Kinda feels like the Grinch looking down at Whoville…
I never get tired of this view…
If you think English grafitti is difficult, try doing it in Chinese characters, in cursive! Now that takes some skill…
Actually I’m pretty sure this fellow was actually spraying white paint to remove the graffiti. Still…
Hong Kong taxi. I think the expression on the driver’s face underscores the meaning of the message on the side of his car.
At least, he said he was…
Empire State Building, Manhattan
