Transportation
Leaving on a Jet Plane: Oh How I Wish
My schedule has finally normalized. I have graduated the Chief Petty Officer Academy and once again have time to take more photos. Although it seems I have developed a habit of running for 4 miles without being chased which is odd for me.
On a separate note, during my stint at the training center, while explaining to my classmates about my seemingly double life (contributing photographer for Mutineer Magazine, being sent to Spain, partying on Sunset Strip kinda thing), I was called the 2nd most interesting man in the world. I would have been first, but the guy who called ranked me #2 was looking at the cover of Issue #11 with Jonathan Goldsmith (The Most Interesting Man in the World).
Seriously, the Last of the Steam Powered Trains
This is the last of the old train photos I have . . . until the next time I got home to Scranton.
On another note, I maybe posting regularly or not. I am attending the Chief Petty Officers Academy and spend most of my time on base doing the military thing. It’s quite the contrast to my alternate life of the cool world traveler photographer for a hip fine beverage magazine, but it pays the bills. So, if you don’t hear from me on Twitter or the site is a few days off, I’m getting an ejumacation and learning how to be a Chief.
Back on the Chain Gang?
Maybe its the fence, maybe it’s the bacon induced coma Erin has just put me in, but for some reason the Pretender’s “Chain Gang” comes to my mind when I see this photo?
Sonoma Valley Airport Part 3: Into the Great Wide Open
This is one of two Curtiss Jennys still flying today. The other is at The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in NY.
Last of the Old Trains
This was taken about three years ago at the Steam Town Mall in Scranton Pa. Yes, the town where the show The Office takes place. Last I heard it was one of the largest antique train depots in the country. This could be wrong but hey, it’s the internets.
Sonoma Valley Airport
1929 Dehavilland Tiger Moth
This is the first of a series of posts on the vintage aircraft of the Sonoma Valley Airport. There are five airports through out the US that are strictly for vintage planes and this is one of them. Another airport like Sonoma Valley is in Rhinebeck, NY the home of Cole Palen and his Flying Circus. Even the name is cool.
About 20 years ago (or so), my Dad took me to see this flying circus. It was amazing to see the original, vintage, what have you, planes fly from World War One and even earlier. And it was just that, a flying circus. There were the Model A cars driving around packed with Keystone cops, and vintage aircraft buzzing the runway dropping flower sacks in mock bomb runs, it was great.
But this is the Sonoma Valley. I originally wanted to get some shots of a business that gives airplane rides, but they weren’t open when I showed up. So, I wandered around the airport taking photos not knowing anything about the airport, all the while waiting for the FBI to show up wondering what I was doing. I had no idea this was a vintage aircraft only airport. The first hanger I cam across that was open, was had a 1945 Stearman painted as a trainer, a Piper J3 Cub and some Russian looking plane. I took a few photos in the hanger and came across a mechanicand figured I should ask if I could take some photos. He said it was cool to take the photos, which was great since I was already in the hanger.
Everyone I had met this morning was great. All were either pilots or/and builders/restorers. It turns out that every second Saturday, the open all the hangers so people could see the history that lies within.
I will be posting photos of this shoot in the upcoming weeks. I will more than likely rotate between the restaurant shoot I did this afternoon and the airport.
Trains, Planes, and Well OK Just Trains
If you are ever visiting Petaluma and want to know what there is to do in the are, you can alway visit the Tourist Information Center. The building is an old train station from back in the day that has been restored. What is odd about all this is an old diesel locomotive and caboose rusting away in the parking lot. These two vehicles have been in the same location and despair for the last 13 years.
Motorcycles
While shopping for our BMW F650GS, I visited Marin BMW. They didn’t have the motorcycle I was looking for at that time but they did have a handful of other bikes on consignment. After a few months, I went back to the dealer to take photos of the bikes.
