When I was a little kid and would go to up north to western Michigan (from Illinois), I wasn’t a particularly good swimmer, so the turbulent waters of Lake Michigan were a bit intimidating anywhere past the first sandbar. On the other hand, I really liked Stony Lake–a small, placid lake five miles down the road. This photo is actually of the area of the lake I swam in years ago–little has changed. For more on this part of western Michigan, check out the Michago wiki.
This video depicts some people dropping mini weather balloons or something off of the Hub parking garage on the campus of Penn State, where their colleagues below would pick up the balloons. Maybe it was a science experiment. Taken in June 2010 in State College, Pennsylvania.
On our way to our honeymoon in Maui in September, Jessica and I stopped in San Francisco. Our brief stay was memorable because of all the old memories that we have together in that city–and for the new ones that we made there!
