The summer travel season is upon us and I will be joining the hordes--well, tourists anyway. I will be taking you along, in a way.  I have three trips planned--each one very different from the other.

   During the first week of June I will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a few days for business. Though most of my time will be taken up with work-related activities, I plan to use whatever free time I have to get some great images from that enchanted city.  I was there in 1989, but that was before I had a recurrence of the photography disease. Now I will go equipped with Nikon cameras and a better trained-eye. I promise to share my best results, as always.

    In mid-July, my wife and I will be headed to a land not visited by many American tourists--the country of Bolivia.  We are going for the wedding of a friend and have been assured it will be an adventure with lots of amazing photo opportunities.  The wedding will be in the city of Cocibamba, which is on a plain, high in central Bolivia.  I am planning on concentrating on getting shots of people and scenery, so the 14 to 24 mm wide angle and the rest of the Nikon Trinity lens will be in full use. We will certainly go to La Paz, the capital, so I may also get some cool architecture shots.  But we will probably not make to the desert and salt flats in the south of the country, which are supposed to be spectactular. You will just have to wait until I get back to see where I ended up.

        Speaking of getting back, we are home from Boliva for about three weeks and then we are off to the most beautiful city in America, that great city by the bay, San Francisco. I will finally get to see water again!  We have been there several times before, but now my oldest daughter lives in Alameda, near Oakland, so I guess we just have to go again.....(sigh...life can be so tough sometimes!!!) We are planning on renting a car and doing some day trips while the kid is working, perhaps to Berkeley,  Muir Woods, Point Reyes, etc. I'll be in the land of my idol, Ansel Adams, and will try to take advantage of it as time permits. I'm open to suggestions from any readers. 

   That should be enough traveling for a while. I am thinking about one final trip this year in the fall to visit my brother in Florida. Lots of great birding picture await.  I'll keep you posted on that one.

   If everything goes as planned, during the course of one year, I will have taken seven long distance trips!  Whew, that's a lot of miles and lots of pictures to share with you all.  I think for 2016, I'll stay home because I will be broke and I need to process the images from this year.  It well may take me a year (ahemm...I'm still working on Cuba!).

      Thanks for stopping by and please keep checking in!