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When I wrote yesterday that we’d be in the Swedish archipelago all summer, I should have said home base will be Sweden all summer (at least). Today I set up my temporary office in the attic of the house we are borrowing. My office window, as you can see below, has views which surpasses the view from my bedroom.

The trees in the foreground are cherry, plum, and pear trees. The dock in the middle picture is where my borrowed boat is tied up. Here are more pictures I’ve taken in Bullandö.

Photos taken 15 July 2008 @ 13:45.

Since July 8 and for the rest of the summer, at least, we’re in the Stockholm archipelago at Johanna’s grandparents’ summer cottage. The little town we’re in is called Bullandö (we live at the very end of Bullandövägen). So far the weather has been beautiful, I have a 15ft dinghy with a 30 horsepower engine, and my soccer skills are steadily increasing.

Below is a picture taken from our bedroom window around noon two days ago. Nai and Jax share a room with the same south-southeast view to wake up to every day.

On March 3, my sister Kerry and her man Jim got married in Las Vegas. The next day, Johanna, Naomi, Jaxon and I drove out to the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. All around, it was a great trip. It was the first time I was in Las Vegas since I was 18 years old. I had been to the Hoover Dam last time I was there and came away impressed again, but the photos don’t quite capture the moment.

Here are some pictures. Click (more…) to see the entire gallery.

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The Long Jaunt is a Boston.com special section about a group of later twentysomething guys traveling in South America. There is a blog and lots of photos. The site tagline is “Six continents. Thirty countries. Two laptops. Come along on a trip around the world.”

This post about a beach party in Bahia, Brazil is a good place to start.

Spanish Point Park outside Hamilton, Bermuda.
Taken September 27, 2007.

Battery Park and the tip of Manhattan from upper New York Bay, taken from the Contingency.
Taken September 8, 2007.