Fnord.

Click the image for or here for the pictures, a superfast 4-day trip to La Selva Biological Reserve in Costa Rica. Supercool, incredibly hot & humid, and not nearly long enough to enjoy.

So I’m reading this article and this article and this post and this article and that review, and mourning the loss of the current-model Merrell I’m wearing (out) right now, and thus enthused try to do some online shoe shopping. Maybe I can find a comfortable pair of shoes!

Nope. None of them are large enough to fit my flappin’ feet. Even Zappos disappoints. Maybe someone else will be helped, sigh.

Update: Mike suggests Eccos, as does my sister. We have a candidate! Thanks, Interweb.

Pictures from Karen and Terri:

From HPWREN, a new set of cameras capturing 20-megapixel (!!) images of the city and view:

Wow. For those of you still in the depths of winter, feel free to click through and see the awful conditions here.

Once again, Chris remembered to hit Point Loma near solstice, the one or two weeks a year you can see it before five PM. Due to clouds, no actual sunset but some nice snaps anyway. Enjoy!

A confluence from two good sites. First off, we have “The Most Dangerous roads in the world”:
(Both vehicular and trail)

Part one, part two, part three and part four. Then, on to English Russia for these crazy 300m towers in Belarussia:

Mixed quality on the pictures, super-long pages clogged with ads (DRB only, ER is good that way) and well worth your time - fascinating!

Update: One more, from a post about balancing things:

Whoa.

Although I recently blogged about the possible link from polycarbonate to obesity and such, I have to say that this is a clever idea:

This would have been perfect for my last trip to Italy. Especially for the hiking parts.

Darn clever idea to combine the two functions.

Via the fascinating weblog of Telstar Logistics, a Flickr set on modern military ruins in San Francisco:

In 1990, the San Francisco Bay Area was home to several large U.S. military facilities.

By 2000, they were all gone.

These are scenes from the Bay Area’s recently-abandoned, Cold War-era bases: Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard (San Francisco), Treasure Island Naval Station (San Francisco), Alameda Naval Air Station (Alameda), the SF-88 Nike Missile Site (Marin Headlands), Hamilton Field Air Force Base (Novato), Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo), Naval Security Group Activity base (Skaggs Island), and portions of Moffett Field Federal Airfield (Mountain View).

Very cool indeed. If you like this sort of thing, be sure and check out Subtopia as well.

From Karen and Terri, a nifty picture of a sphinx moth. (Click pic for full-size)

Really should just show them how to post and setup an account, eh?

Karen and Terri send photos of spring in Batavia:

Sorry it took so long to post ‘em!