Red Roof Inn Grand Rapids

Molly is the newest addition to the family - a chocolate lab and springer spaniel mix - she was a rescue from a local shelter. She is about 1 1/2 years old and has been a real joy. Like all labs she loves to carry things around the house in her mouth, she's very friendly, loves to cuddle, love to point on rabbits, squirrels and birds. Her favori...

Grand Rapids, MI... I have nothing to say really. It decided to start raining like crazy the minute we crossed the Michigan border. Needless to say, I didn't feel like exploring much in the rain. But, our show went well, we had an excellent crew in a great space, so I can't really complain. I just hope Michigan gets a bit better.

Tuesday 7/28

Photography day is here or was. Dan the model called to ask permission to bring a model friend along and so did. Started at 10 am and finished at about 2pm having made over 1000 images. Now the processing of those images, down to a very few, begins when I get back in town. Dan and Braxton both said it was fun and I had a good...

Mon 7/27

Did the breakfast thing and then headed out for Grand Rapids home of ____. Am now at the cabin on Lake Whatever, some 16 miles north of GR. The sun has set, the sky is light gray and there is a very nice reflection of that sky on the lake surface. From where I am setting the lake looks like it comes up and under the cabin, VERY n...

My First Organic Farm Experience

So I spent two weeks staying and working at a place called Earthkeeper Farm. I came into contact with Earthkeeper through the WWOOF (worldwide opportunities on organic farms) and they were happy to take me in and let me work for them.

The owners of the farm are a young couple named Rachelle and Andr...

Since I had so much fun with our Paris travel blog, I thought I'd do another one for our trip to the UK (Billericay, Essex, specifically). Even though our trip is still five months away, I wanted to start blogging now because I've recently begun having dreams about this trip. More like nightmares to me, but Steve says they don't qualify as night...

I can't believe there are only 30 more days until we leave. It seems like it was just 24 months. Hopefully all of my obsessive pre-planning pays off: I've been reading travel blogs and scouring the net ever since we decided to actually go to Paris and think I have a pretty good handle on things. I don't expect too many surprises (rude or otherwi...

MODERN ODDYSEUS´ GUIDE TO ALWAYS WINNING # 8 - When times are desperate and no one´s looking, rip off an idea from a classic legend - like Edgar Allen Poe. Only my creative brother and I wrote poems before the "Competition of the Week" 9: the poetry contest´s Saturday deadline. A cute, young, chipmunk-cheeked blonde, Janelle Dykstra, who has poe...

Looking back on my hard-fought "Competition of the Week" 4 victory, I would have to attribute my success to MODERN ODDYSEUS' GUIDE TO ALWAYS WINNING # 4 - Do it to make your girlfriend proud. And boy, let me tell you, I was as excited as only a boyfriend could be, when I called up my Brasiliana the next day to hear how proud she'd be that I wore...

With school out for christmas, I returned home to Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's a rather boring town, with lots of ugly buildings, but it does have snow! ...which I hate. You may not have heard of Grand Rapids, Michigan, but it gets hundreds of visitors each year! And which town, you're probably dying to know, was ambitious enough to first put fl...