At first, I was confused to see a bouncer checking entry to the VIP entrance to a nightclub in downtown Charlotte - at 10am on a Sunday morn...

As long as I can remember, and probably much longer than that, the Rainier Brewery sat astride the I5, complete with its magnificent 12-foot...

It was shortsighted of me to post a picture from perhaps 4000ft above Seattle through the badly scratched window panes of an Airbus on an a...

Downtown Charlotte is an odd mix of 1980s highrises, some new construction, and quite a few single-story businesses with large surface parki...

The sunset approaches in a Seattle evening covered by patchy clouds. Mt Rainier looms in the distance, downtown sulks to the foreground, an...

These hardy souls arrived on the Friday evening train from Portland, and are pictured in Seattle's King St Station assembling their bike...

Butter tarts combine the only ingredients necessary for perfect cooking: sugar, butter, eggs, and flour. These include walnuts; others mig...

Unit 45 of this apartment on King Richard Avenue was sufficiently behind on rent that the landlord succeeded in getting Clark County to is...

Unadjusted colors from a Canon S90. The beach at West Bay faces west, permitting spectacular sunsets.

Tegucigalpa, Honduras hosts an airport not far from the city center. It's a difficult geography for laying a runway, as the city is in ...

West Bay, Roatán , in the bay islands of Honduras, offers beautiful beaches, warm water, and excellent diving and snorkeling. The airport h...

Juan Manuel Gálvez was elected President of Honduras in 1949, ending the dictatorship of Carías . Here is his campaign poster from his (uno...

There is a thriving piñata industry in Tegucigalpa, Honduras . It was tempting to try to bring one back into the US, but one can imagine the...

Stalactites is a legend of Melbourne's late night takeaway cuisine. Here, a harried Greek cook tends to hundreds of pounds of lamb tha...

This is the cockpit of N194UA, a Boeing 747-400, taken shortly after my arrival into SFO. It was parked in the desert in Victorville, CA f...