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      <image:caption>Kk'eeyh noghe' - The horizontal lines on birch bark, literally "birch's eyes". These are checked before bark is taken. Those with short lines are usually good canoe birch. Then roll it along something, and if it cracks, then make baskets or something else out of it instead.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trail of dust from a huge boulder. They’d occasionally break free and run down the slopes, and this one was about 30 feet ahead of me and would have made minced meat of myself.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After an entire day flying and driving I arrive at a place that feels familiar to where I started.  There’s permafrost and plants here that are usually found above the Arctic Circle. A nearby pamphlet explains why: every 1,000 feet of elevation gain is the equivalent to traveling 600 miles north. And at the edge of this tree line in the Colorado Rockies stands another wonder, the vanguard of the forest below, the bristle-cone pine. Though this grove isn’t as old as the one in California that holds Methuselah, the tree that’s been living since 2833 BC, these ones are still ancient. Standing next to them I sense the presence of the extraordinary.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trees age like us. In our youth we’re short and bendy, and as we age we become tall and stiff. But your needles last as long as our entire youth. A single breath of yours lasts a generation for us, and you'll see many of us come and go.  As long as one season feels for us, our entire lives will feel like one season to you. We'll buzz around you for a time and be your insects.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>And you’ll outlast even our language. You’ll stand, twisted by the wind across eons, sometimes just one thin little strip of bark still holding life. Are you still alive under there?  Or are you sleeping? I dare not even touch your bark skin rough from centuries of weather, for fear of crumbling away your armor you’ve crafted over one of our generations and held across centuries. And in our entire lifetimes as we come and go, you can stand in death, preserved in the cold for centuries after your last strip of bark dies.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tree of Death at Deal’s Gap.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This lifestyle is for the extreme minimalist since the whole kit and caboodle fits on the bike.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Everything I own (except for some winter gear at friend’s houses in CO and AK I didn’t get rid of before leaving).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yours truly. Credit on this one goes to Xtreme Sports Photography.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of the silos holding banjo music. The more I look at it, the more it offers: part agrarian artifact with metal textures, part alive with vine reticulum, part fabled castle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Saint Andrews, where a windstorm swept through and shaped the beach. On the day prior, the gulf was whipped white by the wind and I hadn’t seen it pushed around so furiously like that before. There's a stellar section of the beach that’s been eroded away into cliff, and layers and layers of accumulated sand and shells that go up over my head are packed into it’s face. I found some really cool shells here, the best I've seen along the gulf so far.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Later in the week I returned to Saint Andrews and found crystal clear shallows full of grass that would sway as the water swelled in and out. I was enthralled by it and I must have spent a good half hour in there with my hood on to block the wind. When I looked up there were four people standing atop a nearby dune, all watching me. I sheepishly waved and we all laughed. Hah shit, my hobby is embarrassing at times. But the upside to living like this is that I don’t have to worry about it because I’ll never see them again.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This guy was fluffing his wings and washing himself.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The most I ever saw of Civil War history in my hometown was in the historical graveyard downtown, and I was surprised to see a civil war veteran had ended up in it when I was reading all the tombstone engravings. He had moved to Fairbanks in its earliest days after the gold rush of the 20th century, decades after the war ended. He fell in love with the place and clearly never left.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I had never seen a storm like this where the heavens broke and an ocean fell.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/lousiana</loc>
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      <image:caption>Carrier has arrived.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Between point A and point B lies New Orleans, a place I’ve wanted to visit since watching Anthony Bourdain’s A Cook’s Tour where he ate Cajun cuisine and explained how some bars are open 24/7 and even have washers and dryers, no doubt for the high-achieving alcoholic. But first though, I stop at Lake Martin outside the working town of Lafayette. The little body of still water is classic Louisiana bayou with moss hanging from cypress trees growing out of the water. The lake is full of nesting herons, hungry alligators, and something else that makes a curious sound. Ploop-ploop. What was that?? My eyes darted over to the water’s surface where the sound emerged. Ploop-ploop.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The dead aren’t buried here but laid to rest in stone coffins above ground. I think it’s because the ground absorbs so much water that when it storms the place would be full of corpse tea if they were buried underground. Metairie is a southern who’s-who of lore and history. The sprawling necropolis counts as residents a prominent brothel madame of the French colonial period, Louisiana governors and senators, and Confederate generals. In the corner is a memorial to the Louisiana Division of the Confederate Tennessee Army that contains the remains of the very man that initiated the Civil War, P.G.T. Beauregard who led the attack on Fort Sumter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When I left Mississippi I almost had my own horror story that I didn’t realize until I reached Alabama. I had left the $650 telephoto lens in the truck bed, tailgate down the entire way across Misssissippi. I cannot think of a more horrifying experience than to have lost it. But after getting groceries in and checking the bike’s straps I found it present and accounted for. Despite my ignorance we all arrived on the Bama coast.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>And in the forest proper, I’ve never seen such a heterogeneous mix of pines and deciduous. A step this direction and two new species of trees appear, a step this way and three more. There must be a dozen within the first stand of old growth I encountered, which prompted me to do some Googling and read that there are over 73,000 species of tree species in the world. But it’s not enough to have a couple dozen different kinds in the mix, because even individual stands are in different seasons. Some trees are dressed in summer greens, others mottled with autumn.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>But it’s alright, in another moment the scary monster is gone and I’m happy to report I didn’t piss myself. Not this time! Another day comes and the beetles are out with me. I haven’t seen this kind before, which are congruent with the patch of old foliage they scramble over. Fascinating, and well worth the time I spent with them! Another hiker happened upon me and asked if I was OK when they saw me on the ground not moving. I hadn’t even realized they were there since I had been focusing on this little guy. Cute on this scale, creepy any bigger. I think their inherent creepiness stems from the fact they’re so unrelateable.  With curling antennae and thumping wings and chitinous armor for skin they are alien to us and the subject of horror flicks because of it.  Maybe the disconcerting aspect is the emotional dissonance.  The absence of emotions.  They're purely instinctual creatures, unburdened by feelings.  There's a primordial gap between us.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Another human has come to this pier and is performing fishing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>High tide isn't as big in the gulf since the mouth is narrow and further blockaded by the Caribbean islands. I wonder if there's a current that rushes back and forth along the islands at the mouth though, where the moon pulls to and from alongside it.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/abilene</loc>
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      <image:caption>The next morning I cleaned and waxed the chain in the hotel parking lot, reattached the cargo pods, and packed the dry bag onto the back. There is no happy medium on this trip - now it’s damn hot and muggy out, and by the time I finished loading the bike I had undone all the work of the morning’s shower. I set out on the highway a dirty boy again, heading south to Abilene in the beating hot sun. I hope I'm not killing the bike by riding it so long in such a short time and with so much weight on it... I gotta be cookin’ the block with all this nonsense.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The vicious slut of a microwave is too small for the popcorn bag to rotate and only a section of the bag is getting heat, so maybe a quarter of the kernels are actually popping. Fucking hell. But this is the life I’ve chosen for myself, one that dispatches creature comforts but guarantees a life different. T.H Huxley said that a man's worst difficulties begin when he is free to do as he likes, and I have no one to blame for my predicaments but myself. I’ll have to pay the popcorn price for this life. Edit - after doing some online research I came across a YT vid of a guy folding the ends of the bag inwards so the bag can rotate. This substantially increases the popcorn yield and I’m pleased with my life again.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/victor-co</loc>
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      <image:caption>Mountain Bluebird seeing what’s up.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/a-city-different</loc>
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      <image:caption>Petroglyphs etched into the wall around the time of first contact. Perhaps it was recorded after first contact, and the death face in the top-right is a depiction of the metal-clad conquistadors, casting a pall over their life of lizards and star-watching.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>White-lined Sphinx moth at feeding time among the flowers, just outside the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi . These curious moths match the hummingbird in size and flight pattern, and hover over flowers and slide their tongue down into their pistols to lap up nectar. One really, really strange thought kept occurring to me as I jumped around trying to photograph them - they look juicy. It’s been a very long time since I’ve felt the urge to eat a bug, but these are absolutely giant and I’m sure they’re full of sweet nectar. I wouldn’t expect Ben &amp; Jerry’s exactly, but they’ve gotta be gushing with sugar. I’m sure birds think the same thing, which is why these moths only emerge from their roosts around dusk and hence the high ISO setting to compensate for the low light, which creates extra grain in the image. I can compensate with post processing software, but dialing it up too far creates a waxy effect.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I don’t know what the high-water mark of this trip has been because there are so many contenders. The Burning of Zozobra comes to mind, which is the marquee event where an enormous marionette effigy who represents gloom is burned. Or, perhaps it was the cabaret where flamenco performers danced passionately to the staccato of Spanish guitar, stomping the wooden floor when the songs climaxed and the other clapped in rhythm with the singer. Or perhaps it was walking the halls of the Institute of American Indian Arts and peeking into the classrooms, where many of the best and brightest students from all nations - Athabaskan, Tlingit, Crow and others, were sitting in front of easels or listening to lectures or sculpting. For years I’ve wanted to study here… do you think they’d say anything if I just took a seat next to them? But what is most striking to me is how each and every one without fail says hello as we pass by. And they weren’t friendly just at IAIA, but the whole town was like that and no place more so than the grungy Matador, where one swinger found me in the red room and had me feel her tits and gave me her tongue. Wearing a suit in that basement I got to be somebody. It didn’t bother me that her husband was sitting across the room from us and she waved at him after we made out, but what was bad etiquette was letting my date sit alone, so we made our way to the dance floor. The 6ft blonde gringo girl stood out like a llama in a dachshund rodeo, but no one paid us any attention. It was inconspicuous bliss amid the Latino dance music, and that is the nature of this place. For a moment your life is aligned and you walk alongside pure enchantment, then it returns to what is normal as it builds up to the next climax, like 60,000 people watching Zozobra burn before dispersing into the vast dark and the adobe city becomes quiet again, building up to the next climax.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Frozen humidity a little after noon.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ahh… fuck.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Ford Escape EcoBoost probably wasn't engineered for this kind of thing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Not one of us landscape guys will ever be as famous as Charles O'rear, the fella that shot the Windows XP background of rolling green hills off California Highway 12 outside Sonoma. But I’m still happy with what I got, even if Microsoft doesn’t buy it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It's great to visit familiar places with people that have a vastly different perspective from yourself and can add flavor to things we see every day. My dinner date was a fishing boat captain from Alaska and she told me all about the boats in the marina, what they were good for, and how they handled. I’m quite pleased with myself too, for reciprocity is the key to every relationship and I was able to school her on camera settings. She only had a cell phone, but when I started in photography years ago it was on a cell phone too, and the settings on a camera phone’s pro mode are the same used in a DSLR or mirrorless camera. This is the second time I’ve gone out shooting with her, and I’ve seen her post many landscapes and subject studies on social media since we were on that island in Alaska.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neat.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - January’s Autumn</image:title>
      <image:caption>Went up to Ojai and stopped at Bart’s Books, an outdoor bookstore where I scooped up another book on Buddhism. Continued into the mountains north of town and made a brief hike up to Rose Valley Falls where I photographed water cascading down the moss-covered rock face.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amid the ever-changing biomes from one side of mountains to the next are spread a variety of island dwellers that I can’t say I’ve been around much, having lived a landman’s life. Maybe my favorite of the them are the sea squirrels that bob up and down upon tides as the ocean laps the island. One of them was clam-crazy and mowing down on what to have been an ocean’s worth of them. Apparently they love them as my companion tells me she was on her docked boat one quiet night and could hear the sound traveling over the water of one cracking open a clam shell and eating it.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - In a Ghost Ship Across the Gulf</image:title>
      <image:caption>Juneau, the place of Alaska’s first documented serial killer (though I’m sure some indigenous did it first; there’s always someone else who did it first). And on the subject of death, the “Titanic of Alaska”, the Princess Sophia, had grounded herself on a reef just a bit north up the channel from here. For 40 harrowing hours she teetered in gale-force winds beyond the reach of rescue boats, until the rising tide forced her from safety and dragged 353 souls down with her. It’s a horror story that no one seems to know about since news of its sinking was overshadowed by the end of WW1 and Spanish Influenza epidemic. But in the countless bays and channels along Alaska’s coasts there’s probably a horror story for each one. The sweeping tides and islands that funnel winds are treacherous, and any seaman probably has a dozen horror stories they can tell you. Safe on dry land, I drove south to a tiny collection of houses that makes up the town of Douglas. Picturesque in itself but not as much for a natural landscape guy, I continued south down the Glacier Highway and along the Gastineau Channel. I pulled off on the side of the road to take a few shots of the water while a bald eagle cried out overhead from its evergreen nest. It's calls echoed across the channel. From there I continued to the end of the road and then turned around and hit up the Rain Forest Trail, where I made a short hike out to the beach and set up the tripod to take a few long exposures. I've never done long exposures of water, and the little waves lapping gently at the bay came out great on the Canon's LCD screen. I’ll have to see how the finished product looks in post-processing though.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Another happy day.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - In a Ghost Ship Across the Gulf</image:title>
      <image:caption>The forward observation area where I’ve been left alone is eerily quiet. Really quiet. I haven't seen anyone in an hour where previously it had been full of people. The sun sets and an epiphany hits me. Holy shit, am I… Am I alone now?</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/apple-cider-in-the-rockies</loc>
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      <image:caption>The only other park visitor I saw.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lion’s Head in the distance.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Travels - Mirrorless Reflections - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Quackers swimming by this first-time visitor to the pond.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - Mirrorless Reflections - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>I love the way the Rockies roll up clouds along the Front Range. I’ve never seen cloud patterns like this anywhere else.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/byers-co</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Travels - Molten Rails - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The telephoto lens can make out the Rockies far off in the distance.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - Molten Rails - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Crimson and ember at the edge of a storm. Right around the time I took this, someone texted me and we talked about self-discipline in a world of modern abundance. This was the perfect place to have that conversation - my normally restless self found a deep peace in the moment.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/arizona-1</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Travels - Rez Radio - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Travels - Rez Radio</image:title>
      <image:caption>With the vibrant sunrise passed into history I headed south, listening to the rez radio which is a mix of Indian drumming and singing, health announcements, and… country music. They sure love their country music down here, and it’s common to hear a chant honoring a grandfather followed by Shania Twain.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/wa-state</loc>
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      <image:title>Travels - Apples of the American Side</image:title>
      <image:caption>The drive west to the Okanagan was stellar. I’ve always loved Washington State and I even lived here for a few years, a few years ago. As the wheels on the car continued to spin, open fields turned into apple orchards of which I’ve never seen in all my time here. How I would have loved to pick one of those apples straight off the branch!</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/south-dakota</loc>
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      <image:title>Travels - Storms of Fields and Heart</image:title>
      <image:caption>That night I parked in the empty lot of the White River Visitor Center and watched the storm play out over the rest of the night. It was so strange - there was a constant barrage of light flashing across the sky yet never any thunder. The next morning I woke up outside the White River visitor center on the rez. After a propane-cooked breakfast I headed west to the overlook, driving through terrain so muddy and atmosphere so muggy that it felt like Costa Rica again. Now Cesaria Evora is playing through the Escape’s speakers and she’s adding to the tropical vibes.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/co-wildflowers-and-new-car</loc>
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      <image:caption>Got to Chatfield in time for sunset! It was a great day after all.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Enter the sky.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://sinyeet.com/travels/sand-dunes-need-to-work</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Travels - Late for Golden Hour</image:title>
      <image:caption>Packed up the car and got ready for a trip out to the desert. Seeing all the gear in the trunk makes me realize how committed I’ve become to these little excursions. It’s good to have a hobby that doesn’t involve logging in to something (granted post processing requires software but the overall process still gets me out there).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - Late for Golden Hour - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>I’ll forever be haunted by this picture and the knowledge of what could have been achieved.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - Late for Golden Hour</image:title>
      <image:caption>Well, life goes on. After sunset I went down to the creek and took long exposures and got a cool shot of people with flashlights hopping over the water and sand. I played around with the camera settings and while some effects were intentional, others I’m not sure what the hell I did. But I like ‘em, and I learned a bit about night photography. If at the end of the day I’ve emerged a better person than I was at the start of it, then I can say the day wasn’t wasted.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Travels - The Silenced City</image:title>
      <image:caption>Hung out at the house in the morning and tried to figure out if I should go North, East, South, or West for the day to shoot.  I ended up heading up towards Nederland and stopped at Golden Gate Canyon State Park, and picked up an annual state park pass for $120.  I can't wait to see all of these parks finally, especially Roxborough.  I drove around the park a bit but didn't find much photo-worthy from the side of the road at the middle of the day, save for a little red barn with a snowed-in courtyard area.  Spent the rest of the day at the ghost town north of Nederland, where the Nissan got stuck on an icy part of the road and I had to dig it out with rocks.  I noticed that half of my tread was missing when I was under the car, and it made me nervous about getting stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Would I become a ghost of this place too?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Not a soul around, but lights abound. At cold temperatures the humidity in the air freezes and forms ice fog.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Staying warm is a challenge though! It’s -45F and I had to keep the camera battery in my jacket next to my body to keep it warm so it doesn’t freeze. And any time I come in from the field I have to put the Canon in an airtight sandwich bag as it acclimatizes over a 115F temperature change. The last thing a photographer wants is condensation forming inside their camera. And worst of all are the trips going out into the field for nothing! One night I got up at 4AM and went out to Poker Flats for a vivid aurora the geophysical institute predicted. I waited alone in the dark and cold but turned in after 30. I got back to the hotel an hour later without having taken a single picture. But it is worth it for me, if only to see home first hand and experience this short life.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>But then the sun returns! The country looks like its straight out of the pages of a vacation brochure again. With warmth restored, we gathered our things and talked to the bnb owner on our way out, who explained that a cow had stomped on the power line last night. Suddenly I’m in the mood for a burger. We took off in the rental car over country roads and through tropical jungle, occasionally punctuated by small villages where the sound of cheering football fans and scent of wood fires emerged from each. And everywhere the air is heavy with the fragrance of tropical flowers. The roads feel Alaskan, as does the traffic over them. There are so many pot holes here that it's like a video game trying to avoid them, and most of the vehicles here are either 4WD or old cars. My frugal ‘96 Nissan 200sx would fit in here since many of the cars are Sentras, the 4-door variant. My car’s generation must have died out in Colorado 15 years ago, but here it seems like every 4th car is one of the old Nissans. We’ve been rolling an absolute gem of a rental car ourselves: an early-2000’s Daihatsu 4x4 with 160,000 miles on it. It was one of the best the rental agency had, and a reminder that Costa Rica is very much a developing country.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After miles of dirt and rock we arrived at the national park where the rain forest is thriving and full of a never-ending chorus of chattering insects and singing birds. There is so much life in one place, and walking along the pathways under dense choking tree canopy reminds one how insignificant they are. Just hiking them feels like the Forest Temple from Ocarina of Time (I’ll lose a couple of you with that reference but it’s an accurate description). Stretches of dark shaded trail suddenly give way to a rickety bridge or exposed cliff, and one emerges into the light again as if they’ve been cave spelunking.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The new place boasts the capacity for a couple hundred and sprawling manicured lawns with ornate tropical landscaping lay throughout the grounds. The landscape architect is an absolute devil of a genius and to be commended. But despite the new place’s capacity, there’s no one else here except the two of us and the staff. It feels like a tropical version of The Shining, complete with maddening landscaping. I poured myself drinks at the bar while the wind howls overhead. After leaving the hauntingly empty massive hotel the next day we found a nearby hot springs where a hilarious Indian (the other kind - dot, not feather) guy got into our pool with his family. He told them it was a private pool that I had warmed for them and that he had paid me for access. Hah! Fucking guy, I love him. After the bubbling water, we head west to the Pacific coast and Tamarindo.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Next and last, the capital. Even in the main city of San Jose many of the streets are dark, yet they have services like Uber Eats. At night I head to a grungy bar where I wouldn’t presume to try to get them to understand English, so I acknowledge the bartender with a nod and hastily point at the first can I see on the shelf behind him and read the label. “Smirnoff Ice.” Ah, fuck. I settled in and watched bull wrangling on TV. Between rounds they have kiss-cam and show couples making out in the stands.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>But this night there’s a wave of euphoria, cresting off a swell of downtown energy from a strange city, fireworks exploding outside our flat, a scandalous cocktail dress, and the always rejuvenating New Years holiday that wipes the slate clean and delivers a fresh start. The first night of the new year starts.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After a whirlwind of business and introductions we took the high speed rail out of Beijing’s smog, glimpsing farmers wading through rice paddies as we zipped by at 300km/h. A first trip to China wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the Great Wall, where in Badaling I learned that there is no such thing as personal space in this country. One guy reached past me while I was standing right at the urinal, business in hand, to point to a map on the wall in front of me. I wouldn’t expect much room to move around in a country of 1.3 billion though.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My professor is a mad lad and had the Uber Eats guy that delivered lunch sit down in the middle of us and talk about his job and experiences working with the new tech company.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In Nanjing a storm system rolled into the city and blanketed everything in a heavy layer of mist that eventually developed into rain. Climbing the steps to the shrine in the dense fog was a surreal experience. Being a 2nd-tier city, there aren’t as many foreigners around and the locals took note of our presence. One girl even stopped me and asked to take a picture with me. The top of the stairs led to a shrine that was much akin to the Lincoln Memorial and had a solitary figure seated and overlooking the hillsides below. After drying out in the bus afterwards, the ride felt suddenly solemn knowing I’ll never see these people again or know their stories.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>It’s not all hustle and bustle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Then school is out, and I recuperate at the hotel bar. The TV has a channel dedicated to local car crashes using footage from traffic cams. I wonder if the city is a partner in the production? Realizing that my time in China is quickly coming to an end I cashed out after a single drink and emerged into the Shanghai night, that bold beautiful neon playground sitting along the bottom of glass canyons. It was a legitimate cyberpunk reality and in a few moments, complete with rain.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amid the hive of feverish activity we came upon a watering hole where the the bartender spoke English and was a huge fan of WWE. He knew all of the wrestlers including my favorite, Rikishi, the sumo guy that would suffocate his opponents with his huge belly. Afterwards we came across a Brooklyn-themed restaurant and I sunk my teeth into pizza. Sweet baby Jesus, it’s good to not be eating banana fungus soup or cow intestines for once. The owner is from California and came and hung out with us at the table. She showed us a couple card games that she kicked my ass at. This is clearly a reflection of her failure as a teacher and not on my capabilities as a student of course.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Had some free time to kill, so when in Rome. Or Shanghai.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Welcome to my online home, a database of journeys and musings. My name is Sinyeet De’e’elo. I’m a sawish of the north, half-breed of the Koyukon Athbascan and Hungarian immigrants. It sounds exotic, but don’t let that fool you. I’m a regular guy, someone you would pass at the grocery store buying bread or sitting next to you in the movie theater eating popcorn. I spent years chasing a finance career, working to an MBA and spending my life in a little cube where I was the only one the janitor saw at nights.</image:caption>
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