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My current Chinese visa expires on August 19, 2012. The visas I typically get are good for 12 months and allow me to stay in China for up to 60 days at a time (not that my wife would EVER allow me to stay for 60 days). If I tried to enter China today (June 20, 2012) my visa would expire within the 60 days. The Chinese government does not like this sort of thing so I need a new visa. Unfortunately, my passport that I have had since 2003 was due to expire in February 2013. This means that my passport would expire before my new Chinese visa would. Time to get a new passport.

July 20th, 2012 | Tags: CAR-FRESHNER, Caribbean, China, departure, entry, Europe, exit, Hong Kong, immigration, Italy, Nevis, new, old, Paris, passport, RoBrady Design, Shanghai, stamp, Taiwan, Techtronic Industries, Travel, TSA, TTi, US State Department, used, visa, worn | Category: My life, Travel | Leave a comment

This seems a little weird to be posting but here it goes anyway…
This is my 4 year old pair of Keen Arroyo IIs. I bought them after my first trip to China and have worn them nearly daily since then. They have been to Asia twelve times, Paris, dozens of US cities, Publix, Bouchon, etc, [...]

December 25th, 2009 | Tags: Arroyo II, China, Christmas, Keen, new, old, Paris, shoes, SuperFeet, Travel, worn | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Took a ride up to Waverly, AL this afternoon to see what I could find. Right as I was heading into town I found this little sharecropper’s shack rotting off the side of the road that was too good to pass up. I really wanted all of the detail and colors to pop, so this [...]

May 15th, 2009 | Tags: 50mm f/1.7 SMC-A, Alabama, decay, detail, door, green, historic, honeysuckle, old, paint, peeling, Pentax K10D, porch, red, rotten, rotting, rural, rusty, safe, shack, sharecropper, siding, steps, vine, Waverly, wood | Category: photos | Leave a comment

One of the best things about shooting a modern Pentax DSLR is having access to 35 years worth of wonderful K mount lenses- all with shake reduction! That’s a feature no other camera manufacturer can claim. The problem is that using these lenses effectively on a DSLR is somewhat of a black art that requires [...]

May 5th, 2009 | Tags: A, AE-L, aperture, aperture ring, Av, compensation, configuration, custom function, depth of field, DoF, DSLR, e-dial, EV, EXIF, exposure, F--, focal length, focus, Green Button, guide, how to, indicator, K mount, K100D, k10d, K200D, K20D, KEH, Km, lens, M, manual, menu, metering, MF, old, Pentax, permitted, power switch, preview, research, series, set-up, setting, shake reduction, shutter, SR, stop down, Takumar, TAv, used, using, viewfinder | Category: gear, how to | Comments (120)