Down on the farm, yeah, that’s how the Cosmic Psychos would sing it back in the early ’90s. Three farmers from the outback cranking out bulldozer punk. Now it’s almost twenty years later and I’m down on the farm and Abba is today’s soundtrack – shift happens. Rob is seen here planting garlic, I on the other hand am here to do some photography so there might be enough photos to post while we are away in Yellowstone.

This past year did not see much travel for Caroline and me, between her mom visiting for eighty-seven days starting last January to my nearly seventy-five days in Santa Barbara caring for my uncle we only managed to visit Death Valley, Monument Valley, the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, Tuba City up on the Navajo Reservation, Blue and Nutrioso in Northern Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana in October and finally the Oregon coast over Thanksgiving. During 2009 we will make an effort to return to form and travel A LOT! On the calendar so far: Yellowstone in January, followed by a short trip to Disneyland. Caroline’s mom will meet us back east for a trip to Niagara Falls, Washington D.C., and points between and then late in the year we have plans to road trip the Deep South starting in Atlanta, Georgia. We are likely to visit Monterey, California as well since neither of us can remember the last visit to the aquarium. A visit back to Yellowstone before August is required as a favorite riverside drive will be replaced by a bypass and will eventually be removed from the park. I’d like to walk its length and photograph the canyon outside of winter conditions. I really should get busy planting some road trip ideas into my mind.