Author: Justin Hill

  • Vienna – Music and Death

    Vienna – Music and Death

    Vienna is a cool place for fans of music and cemeteries. On our bike tour we saw monuments to Johann Strauss, Franz Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, and Bruckner – The Vienna Central Cemetery (Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is a few miles out of town, a quick Uber ride away if you don’t want to figure out the buses.…

  • London 2018

    London 2018

    Got in some touristing during a business trip to London – Oxford city tour and countryside bike tour Lots of tourist sites in London, including As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Churchill War Rooms, and the Tower of London Windsor Castle A few of the many photos below –  

  • Yellowstone 2018

    Yellowstone 2018

    Reunion time! We explored a new (to us) part of Yellowstone National Park this time: Yellowstone Lake. We stayed in cabins near the Lake Lodge. It was 4th of July weekend, but we didn’t notice the crowds until we stopped at Old Faithful on the way out. An amazing hike in the area is Storm…

  • Johannesburg and Pretoria

    Johannesburg and Pretoria

      I fell a little behind in documenting the safari from October. We spent a couple of days in Johannesburg and a day in Pretoria. The different branches of government in South Africa are located in separate cities, so Pretoria is the administrative (executive branch) capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital, Bloemfontein is the…

  • Hummingbird tongue

    Hummingbird tongue

    I relax best when I’m watching something else work really hard. Here’s a hummingbird in slow-motion (25% of normal) from last night. You can see his long tongue flick out at the very beginning. Also, backyard bird sounds at 1/4 speed are freaky!