Penultimate Game at Yankee Stadium

The final day game at Yankee Stadium, with the team moving across the street for 2009. I went with Michael, on a whim, picking up tickets from StubHub about 50 minutes before game time.

Alaska!

Alaska

Hiking and Getting Lost

Breakneck Ridge Hike

Last Opening Day at The Stadium

The new Stadium going up across the street at River and 161st.

The field and mostly empty stadium 40 minutes before the game.

Chien-Ming Wang, starter and winner for the first game of the last season in the old park, walks to the bullpen to warm up.

The Blue Jays and Yankees lining up along the first and third baselines for introductions and colors.



Joba gets in his warmup tosses prior to starting the eighth inning.

Spring!

A nice arch of blooming trees on the northern end of Waverly Place.

Tree in the courtyard behind Waverly Inn on the coner of Bank and Waverly Place.

Magnolia tree in bloom in Sheridan Square park.

Snow at last!

First snowstorm of any size for the winter.

I like the smiley face that someone has scribed on the passenger-side window.

View from the roof of my office building at 1440 Broadway.

I like the look of this granite rail covered in snow, along 40th street heading east towards Fifth Avenue.

The New York Public Library looks great all the time, but even a bit better in a snowfall.

This is the right-hand lion, so I think it's Lenox. (Astor is the other one.)

MapMyRun.com

I love this site.

Homeward Bound

Puerto Jimenez in the early morning. We were on our way to catch our flight back to San Jose.

I made a friend with one of the many, many stray dogs in town. This pup actually followed us to the airfield and tried to clamber up the stairs to the plane to come with us.

National Park: Day Three

A big ol' spider making her home in the Sirena ranger station.

A white-face coati.

I like this tree clinging to the cliff above the beach. The tide is way in, which made the hike back a bit sporty in some places.

A spider monkey.

This was about as close as we got to spider monkeys... maybe twenty feet, vertical.

This is behind a smallish waterfall on the hike back, where we stopped for a late lunch. There were a few deepish pools to swim in, and I took advantage.

Coconut milk.

Riding back to town in the collectivo.

The airstrip at dawn.

Stranglemonkey trees. I love the exposed root systems.

Tapir tracks in the sand.

Crocodile footprints!

Kate's smiling, but I'm not acting like I'm having a good time. I am! Really!

Lianas climbing the trees in the rain forest.

A macaw.

Crocodile sunning itself along the Rio Sirena.

Looking for sharks. They could be see as the tide comes in, filling the mouth of the river. You could see their fins poking out of the water when the wave troughs rolled past them.

A tapir, with a radio collar, sleeps in a mud wallow during the mid-day heat.

A medium sized skink.

A vaquero on the road to the national park.

Starting along the beach.

Many skulls of monkeys, tapir, and other creatures. There are some deadly snakes in formaldehyde, and pieces of a whale's spine.

Bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

We drank the water untreated. Yeah. We're that bold.

There was a waterfall and kettle pool about four hours into the hike that made for a nice swim.

The pool. At its deepest it was eight or ten feet.

Footprints in the sand. We're almost to the ranger station at Sirena.

The entire peninsula is ruled by crabs. These red ones were incredibly fast and difficult to catch with your hands.

A sloth.

Hi sloth!

He had a runny nose. You could see it drip from where we were standing. And, as would be expected, he moved quite slowly.

Walking along the airstrip to Sirena station. The beach is behind us, and the strip is maybe a kilometer long.

The porch of the ranger station.

This macaw hung out at the station quite a lot. A ranger said it was a she.

Making friends.

Coveting Kate's black beans and rice.

Still coveting Kate's dinner.