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Now accepting "crew donations" to warm the pipes sounds like a pickup line 🫣
Geolocating offers useful opportunities to correct errors in my photo database. Today while preparing to work on 2007, I realised that one picture I took on the Trans-Siberian, showing a train passage with a young boy playing with a green balloon -
"The passageway. Vova playing with balloon."
- actually featured Vova's son, Pasha. A photo of Vova (Вова) himself playing with a balloon would have been notable indeed.
ETA: meant to attach photos. Fixed. No geolocation.
2006 complete. GeoLocation 59.53% complete.
My biggest travel photo year is 2007, the first 9 months of my 10-month career break journey around Asia and Europe - north from China, west to Italy, south to Aqaba, east through Iran, finish in India. I took 1/6 of all my photos in this one year.
I geolocated 10% of them while writing Strange Roads, Part I (https://winterknell.net/travel/_trav_2007/_trav_2007_cow.html). Still leaves over 12,000 to do. Gonna take me a while.
[Rolls up sleeves]
The true meaning of Easter, by Stephen Collins (who writes his own amazing #AltText)
"PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
BECKY: You mean … Jesus …?
PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky."
I spent my copious free time in March writing a trip report for our Cascade Saddle tramp in February. It sure is scenic. #NZ #tramping #SouthernAlps
https://patricklam.ca/post/20260331-trip-report-cascade-saddle/
59%. Finished with Egypt, now geolocating my 2006 Great Ocean Walk. This is really challenging, as there is no Street View and I have to rely on cross-linking clues in my photos with how long I've walked since the last good location (or how long to the next good location). My walking pace is very slow as it's all up and down and I'm carrying 20+ kg of stuff on my back. Plus, I'm often lost.
Full story here: https://winterknell.net/travel/_trav_2006/_trav_2006_gow.html
Today I visited the Bärenpark Schwarzwald in Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach, a beautiful and vast sanctuary giving rescued bears a second chance at life.
These incredible animals once lived in circuses, zoos, or were captured as so-called “problem bears” (term that honestly makes me really angry).
📷 me
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Natasha 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Ninji
Patrick Lam 
Nina Willburger
Heliograph
Mark A. Rayner