My Maps

Google Maps has recently added another great new feature called "My Maps". This setup allows user to enter information onto Google maps such as trip routes, photos or movies of particular places and so on. I quickly plotted the rout I roughly (very roughly) followed while traveling Asia. Also I quickly made one for my route while traveling Latin America. I made these in a couple minutes so don't zoom in and expect the lines to converge on actual places. When I get some time I may put markers on actual spots with attached photos. Until that time try out "My Maps" from Google maps for yourself.

Sunday River

This weekend as I mentioned in my last post I was away to Sunday River for a quick ski weekend. The weather was great and the conditions were fabulous (considering it is the spring). The only thing that was missing was a bit of sun screen on my face so I would not have burnt as badly. (Pictures of me, Ben & Lee-Anne with Mt. Washington behind and Lee-Anne at the Jordan Bowl)

Sunday River

Despite my doubts that I would be making it out skiing this season it looks like I finally will. This weekend I'm heading down to Sunday River with Ben & Lee-Anne. Hopefully the conditions will be good.

One year ago today

I find it interesting looking back at what I was up to a year ago as I was traveling. About this time I was exploring one of my favorite areas of Mexico (the Yucatan, especially around Tulum and Isle de Mujeres). More precisely to the day I had rented a scooter and was motoring around Cozumel. I found out that the place I wanted to stay at (along with everything else up and down the Caribbean coast of Cozumel) was destroyed by the hurricanes so I decided to just sleep on the beach. Needless to say I was glad I had a few things in my pack to make a couple burritos (tortias, re-fried beans, rice and hot sauce - since my lack of supplies on the beaches of the Baja I tried to keep a few staple foods with me). The photo shown is the Caribbean sunrise I woke up to which was incredible.

Videos

Picasa has recently enabled the uploading of videos. Due to space that videos consume I have been uploading them on my secondary picasa web account. There are a few videos now posted with the possibility of a few more to come. To view click Jon's Video Gallery. There is also a link to the right under the same heading for future viewings.

Andies, Rockies, Himalayas

Slideshows

I was playing around with a slideshow feature (from myspace) with a few old photos from the past year.