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Exploring Rocky Mountain National Park

For my last night in Colorado, I decided to spend a day at Rocky Mountain National Park. My friend Jay Kinghorn dropped by (co-author of Perfect Digital Photography) to join me shooting sunset and then car trails afterwards. 

Photoshop Soup 2 Nuts

I'm in Ann Arbor Michigan speaking at the Photoshop Soup 2 Nuts conference. The bus is parked at the airport in Colorado... it only cost me $1 more than parking a car to park both the bus and my jeep! Once I return from this trip, I'll be heading to Utah and Arizona to explore a few National Parks.

Designers Guide to mac OS X released!

For the last few days I've been parked less than a block away from my friend Jeff Gamet's place in Westminster, CO. While we were chatting, his wife Erica stopped by with the mail, which included the first copy of Jeff's first book, which is titled Designers Guide to Mac OS X TIGER. Above is a shot of us celebrating with some champagne on the bus (that's my glass on the far left).

Exploring Devil's Tower

I decided to take a detour on my way from South Dakota to Colorado to spend a day at Devil's Tower. I stayed at a campground that had a view of the tower and enjoyed hiking the trails around the tower.

Exploring the Black Hills of SD

I spent two days at the Flinstones campground in the Black Hills of South Dakota (I could deal with a few fewer kids, so next time I won't be visiting the cartoon campground). After traveling six-plus miles on a trail that I thought was going to be under a mile, I decided to purchase a handheld GPS to see if it will help me keep my barings. That will be one of my birthday presents that I'll give myself once I get to Colorado (my B-day is June 17th).

Visiting the SPAM Museum

Back when I was in Chicago, the SPAMobile parked next to me. That inspired me to visit the SPAM museum while I was in Minnesota. It's located in Austin Minnesota which is a few hours South of Minneapolis. My visit included a spam tasting, a film about spam, the spam museum, the spam gift shop and much more.

While I was at the gift shop, I bought a SPAM T-shirt and one can of each variety of SPAM. I had no idea there were so many flavors to choose from.

They had a special today and my purchases added up to enough to warrant getting a free SPAM museum collectors thingie. I have no idea what the hell I'll end up doing with that.

After I got my fill at the museum, I headed across the street to a restuant that was capitalizing on the fact that the SPAM museum was across the street. That's where I had my first Spamburger... the only hamburger that contains real ham!