http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog Life, Photography, and Travel make Mark a Happy Boy Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:35:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ah, about to head off to another anonymous island in Lake Nicaragua.  After Ometepe, I think I´m over the middle of nowhere now, but maybe this stop will surprise me and be stellar.  But after getting into Granada and getting to be in an actual city a few days, I ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2009/01/06/back-to-nowhere Wow,  it´s been several days now.  I never had time in San Juan del Sur to post a blog and last night in Ometepe the only apparent computer was tied up for hours.  I tried twice,  once before dinner and was told the second computer in the hotel didn´t work.  ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2009/01/03/catch-up-from-lake-nicaragua Yesterday morning we had an early start to get on a local bus to Liberia.  Four hours of fast but largely not so scary driving.  I think some others thought it was a bit hair raising, but maybe it was good I zoned out with my iPod.  Arrived in Liberia about ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/12/30/costa-rico-day-3-liberia Exhausted but here! I drove back to the ATL late Saturday and still had to pack. The result is next to no sleep to make 6:45am flight and minimally a forgotten Spanish phrase book. Oh well! Flight to Houston was late and full. Literally ran to next ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/12/28/costa-rica-discovered I guess England is well and truly over for now.  I dragged it along with me for months now, but for me, a trip is well and symbolically complete when I finish going through all the photos for said trip.  I think the UK will always take me longer just ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/12/26/england-is-past I'm still working on photos from England in September and my next trip is literally on the horizon.  I'll be in Costa Rica just a few days after Christmas, and in Nicaragua when the New Year rolls around.  I'll accumulate more photos, so I really have to buckle down and ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/12/10/on-the-horizon As the year is rapidly winding down, I thought it would be a good idea to point out that I have a couple of calendars up for 2009 using shots from England this past September and from Egypt at the dawn of the now passing year. I'm particularly proud of the ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/12/09/calendars-for-2009 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Say Cheese in Avebury!"][/caption] I finally had a tourist cheesey goodness moment in Avebury.  It was my second trip to the lesser known stone circle in Wiltshire. Four years prior on my first visit to London, I took a day trip out that included a morning stop ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/11/26/dawdling-through-england The end of the year always seems to accelerate.  I ran to the store this afternoon in shorts.  I was one of, oh, two people in shorts.  I wasn't that cold but I did feel like I was holding onto a passing season.  The leaves are hitting the ground and ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/11/09/falls-passing Okay, for weeks, I've been hating how dark it was in the morning.  The late sunrise made it seem even harder to rise and shine.  Okay, I never shine, but I do rise.  Now the sun is going down too early.  There is no winning is there? Where to begin on ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/11/02/is-it-midnight Picture this, I had to go to Chicago on a business trip this past week.  There wasn't a lot of advance notice, but it was not the first time, so I sailed through the trip arrangements and off I went. Arrived Monday afternoon for an all day meeting Tuesday.  Tuesday flew ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/10/12/i-can-laugh-now I've been back in the states for over a week now.  There are days it feels like I never left in the first place.   There are always a little bit of the blues whena trip ends.  That's how you know I had a good time. There's not much to say about ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/09/26/england-wrap-up-and-arts-news That was my time in the UK whizzing past at a bit over the speed of sound.  I fly back in the morning.  I should rightly be in bed already.  I for some reason thought I had a flight back around 1pm but checked the print out when I got ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/09/15/what-was-that I lazed about a bit this  morning.  Because my two nights here were unintentional and there was, in fact, only one spare bed tonight, I have to change rooms the first two mornings.  If I hung out until 10am I could go ahead and change rooms rather than dumping my ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/09/13/purpose-as-a-cautionary-tale I have no idea where to begin.  I really haven't properly logged my experience in Cornwall, and I don't have my notes with me and I'm bushed.  For the moment, we'll leave it at incredible.  Newquay was a gorgeous piece of earth, as was all of Cornwall.  It was the quintesential ... http://www.marktisdalephotography.com/blog/2008/09/12/looking-back