Downtown Oakland, California

A small effort to keep pace with urban change
After moving from the inner San Francisco Bay, my home for most of my years in California, I felt like a tourist recently when visiting Oakland. I got lost in Chinatown!
Over the next few weeks I'll post a series of photos taken over several years that capture some of these changes. First up: the evolution of a mural painted in Oakland from March to May, 2017.

Stomper - click to view this mural's evolution

Sunsets and a sunrise over the Sacramento Delta

Views at sunset and sunrise over the Sacramento Delta

Houseboat Living

Big changes! Houseboat living! Check out the new blog, Delta Hand: A Swabbie's Tales of Houseboat Living.

• First Night Aboard
• Two Weeks a Swabbie
• Most recent post: Heads as Headache
• Sunsets and a sunrise, too

Southern African Musings

Life is ... different... in my neck of the Southern Hemisphere, near the arrows and red dot on the map:

Follow the journey of discovery, disorientation, irritation and, sometimes, joy:

• The miracle of knowhow coupled with imagination
• Laughing off load-shedding, reprise
• Expat reentry
• Potholes - version published as 
• Culture Shock Comorbid with Bureaucratitis. Welcome home! 
• Mosquitoes
• Comrades Marathon