Last week my girlfriend and I made a trip out to the Badlands with some close friends and slept among buffalo, antelope, elk and rattlesnakes. We ate a lot of travel food and did a lot of hiking to work some of it off. People in South Dakota make great pies.
Tags: Badlands, camping, landscape, Road Trip, South Dakota
I just got back from a month in Australia. Every year I make it a point to leave Chicago for at least 3 weeks or so during the winter. The Chicago winters are cold, harsh and blue and by the time February rolls around everyone in the city is so depressed they act like they [...]
Nothing but driving. I had the best beef jerky I’d ever had in New Mexico- it was as thin as paper and covered in dried chillies. For 3 days it seems like I ate nothing but that green chili jerky and looked at mountains and desert. By the time I made it to L.A. I [...]
The portrait that I took of Margot and The Nuclear So & So’s for Spin Magazine just came out. Here’s the shot. After the shoot the band took us to their local scottish tavern- the Lockerbie Pub and we enjoyed some interesting cuisine- I lived in Northern Ireland for a little while a few years [...]
I had some time off so I decided to go on a long road trip- I had to be in Sacramento at some point for a couple days, and my friend Mike was going to fly into San Francisco to join up with me, but that was pretty much all I had for plans. I [...]
Tags: , Road Trip
One of my best friends, Neal, got married a little while back. He and the lucky lady held the ceremony in a cornfield in central Illinois. Neal attended in traditional formal Scottish evening wear. He even had a dagger in his sock. He is not of Scottish descent. Nobody seemed to mind. Towards the end [...]
In November I went on a road trip and drove 7500 miles around the southwest and up through California. I picked up my friend Mike Renaud in San Francisco, we ate some raw oysters down at the wharf and then drove back through the high Sierras, the Nevada desert and the Rockies. We spent a [...]
Tags: Road Trip
