Bad Knees Travel

It has taken me over a year to get to an emotional place where I can post about my trip to Svalbard.  It was profound and life altering. The first step in the process is to sort thru the thousands of photographs.  Remove the absolute rubbish. Decide which ones are about moments that are personal, and those that may be interesting to other people. It is like deciding which of your children you want to show off.  I have decided to split them into three piles.  Rocks and Ice, Plants and Animals, and People and Trip Notes. All of the photos are my own.  Please let me know if  you are going to use them elsewhere.   I have added a few notes. If you want to  just look at the photos, click on any one and you will see a slide show at the bottom.  There are a couple of very amateurish videos. They will not show up in the slide show, but I think they are worth looking at. Svalbard is a group of islands belonging to Norway, but you reach them by pla...

 I got some paper samples and some of my Origami friends wanted to know what I learned. Much too much info for putting on fBorg, so I am putting it here. I did the same fold on all of the papers so that I could evaluate the creasy ness, and feel.  All of the paper needed to be cut to squares. And the quantities are big. First thing Uline is a great company. I have dealt with them for years.  My order took 19 hours to arrive. But there are no small quantities. But the samples were free, but had creases in them And their packing has lots of plastic, and a catalog.  This blog post is not intended as a promotion for them, but as a way of sharing what I learned about these different papers. 50 lb Black Kraft Paper - 48" x 720' This is some of the nicest Kraft paper available.  It took creases cleanly. Note how nicely the tail folded.  It kept a curve and the box on the back of the crane popped out nicely.  I think this may be the same Kraft paper found at P...