Travel: July 2007 Archives

The main entrance to MIT is on Massachusetts Avenue. If you walk up the steps and through the doors, look up to see this view. "Established for advancement" says the marble inscription...

I don't know what's wrong with my template. It appears to have somehow broken such that it is too wide.

We went to last Saturday's game against the White Sox. Apparently it was the 365th (or something like that) sellout in a row. Crazy!

Just before we headed back to Boston to end our whale-watching tour, this humpback rolled, lifted his fin out of the water, and slapped it. I like to think he was saying goodbye.

The right field foul pole at Fenway Park, named after Johnny Pesky who hit a few of his 17 career home runs over the short right field fence.

Boston at twilight, shot from the Cambridge end of the Massachusetts Avenue bridge.

The San Jacinto Monument marks the battleground where Texas won its independence. It's now surrounded by chemical plants, thanks to its proximity to the Houston ship channel. C'est la vie.

While I was en route from Charlotte to Houston, the plane flew past en route to...somewhere mysterious and cool, I'm sure.