DC and Virginia revisited

Erika invited me for a weekend in the capital


Halloween party


by Lake Annie, on the way back from my failed attempt to skydive


Gwrrrr!

Autumn in Big Apple

Empire State Building peers out of the fog


Subway signs don't make any sense


Andrij gets haircut



rain washes the streets of Times Square


filming continues, for the fourth months


Mike and Mariela chew on lollipops


Smokey, Andrij and I. Wrapping our 5th(?) movie together.

Zen and tranquility of Northern California

drive along the coast to Monterey bay, some crisp view of Pacific spoils you


King Air at Skydive Monterey Bay will take you up to 15,000 feet in 10 minutes, from where you can enjoy 70 seconds of free fall


Monterey, CA



on the way back as the sun tilts over the ocean


morning practice with Kinko Kyudojo


Lucy tells me to shoot slow. "You don't understand, I haven't shot anything for the last 4 months. I missed this so much!"


Ben swirls a rubbery tube, it's a seaweed.

Ben talks to Frank, 208 years old sea creature. "Drink lot of water."


The longest hike of all week took us 3 hours to get back. (Ben ran the track ahead of me and Dylan)

We built this city on Rock and Roll!

October 3rd, wake up in a sound cozy bed of Ben's aunt's house in Oakland, CA


Ben talks to his father, his personal nutritionist



crossing the bridge to the city built on rock and roll!


strolling through the memories of Janis and Jerry


world's best record store, main branch in Haight street, San Francisco


Jeff Tweedy appears at free Bluegrass concert in Golden Gate Park


people here bike a lot


my old roommate Dylan comes home


Gillian Welsh and David Rawlings

going to California (with an aching in my heart)

we wake up in Zion national park next morning. our minivan's getting dirtier


a tarantula wanders off onto the street


VOG in Las Vegas


stars of Death Valley




all morning we drive through this big national park


Independence, CA at the foot of Sierra Nevada


some more VOG


Route 395, flying at 100 mph, almost hit 2,000th mile of the trip. (shortly after this we get pulled over for major speeding)


crossing the Sierra, Katie photographs Mono lake, CA