First full day at the Automattic Janitorial meetup in Sayulita. All taken with a NEX-7.

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Did low-key drinks at a fun bar called Thee Parkside for birthday, always fun to see friends new and old. Experimenting with a new camera, the Sony NEX-7, though these blurry bar photos don’t really do it justice.

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Sister is in town and went to the Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance show at SOMArts, had some food truck Mexican food, and swung by Om’s place to catch up with some friends. Shot with Charleen’s Canon S100, which is a fun pocket camera that had some pretty decent shots in low-light, especially given its size.

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WordCamp Sofia in Bulgaria, dinner, after-party.

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Webfest.me conference, dinner at Sveti Stefan, walking through old city in Budva, and after-party.

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Driving from Dubrovnik, Croatia to Budva, Montenegro.

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Ice, ice, and more ice. Very cool. Jumped in the arctic water (for a few seconds). Spotted a polar bear.

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Ran into some fin whales.

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A short hike to see plants, crazy bird wall with thousands of birds, walruses, dinner.

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Sighting of a polar bear eating an old seal, first ride on zodiacs, lots of glacial ice, and a cool bird.

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Flying into Longyearbyen and arriving for the first time on the Silver Explorer vessel.

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Exploring the Oslo, Norway area a bit after a long, long flight.

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Leaving the takeout point, Kavik camp (one of the most fascinating places I’ve ever been), arriving back in Fairbanks.

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Many hours of rowing, a double rainbow, arriving at takeout point, costumes, and killer squirrels.

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A day of “rest” that ended up being a 8 hour hike in the tussocks (which are really hard to walk through), up to Red Hill, some interesting birds, tracks, bones, skulls, and two moose.

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After swimming in the river the previous day, work up to snow in the morning. Playing with ice fragments and a nice hike.

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First day of really rafting down the Canning river.

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First day in Alaska, flying toward start point on the Canning River in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.

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Went for Napa / Vacaville hot air balloon ride with Janitorial team at Automattic, had dinner at 54 Mint, and caught the end of the symphony masquerade ball in San Francisco. Here are Nick’s pictures from the same day.

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The thing about the White House West Wing tour is they don’t really let you take pictures, except at the door before you go in and after, and at both places they have terrible lighting. Usually I ignore this and snap clandestinely but that seemed like a bad idea in this case and I didn’t want to get tackled by Secret Service. (I’m surprised they let me take my big honking D3S in at all!) The tour was excellent, very humbling to be in a place where so much history has happened, and might have happened just a few hours before you got there. Anyway here are some before and after shots of the tour.

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