My Favorite Pictures — Part 1

This entry is a forum to post some of my pictures that I really like. It’s a collection of everything since about 2003.
There’s really no order here (other than I grouped like pictures roughly together). So, I’ll give a quick synopsis of the story for each picture, but I assume that most people just look at the pictures anyway. 🙂
This first picture is one that I didn’t take. It’s a shot of Anna and I in front of her family’s house in Wisconsin, back in 2003 (taken by her Mom … thanks Mom).

In the summer of 2004, my mom and sister took a trip to Ireland. Anna and her mom also joined the trip. I, however, had to stay back. I was in a 2-month long school in Ohio. Here’s a shot that we liked from her trip.

While the family was touring around Irish Isle, I was learning things like just how hot a firefighter’s suit can be. The first picture is me and the second, my friend Lucky (another Air Force officer currently stationed down in Florida).


Here’s yet another picture that I didn’t take (this one was by one of the very talented base photographers). It was from one of the Andersen AFB’s triathlons last year (2005). I’m coming into transition 2 (as you can tell by the fact that I am taking my shoes off…)

These next two shots are from the beaches of Guam. The first is Anna and I at a beach commonly referred to as Lost Pond. This one was taken by another friend of ours, Kevin (who’s now stationed in Italy).

This is Anna inspecting the small creatures at the land bridge just north of Double Reef Beach.

The next seven pictures are from our trip to New Mexico in 2004. We spent almost 2 weeks there visiting family in Albuquerque, hiking in Santa Fe, alpine skiing at Taos, snowshoeing in the mountains above Taos, and llama trekking in the Rio Grande river valley. Here are the representative shots.
In Taos, we stayed at a very cute bed and breakfast. This is a view from the outside. As an interesting side note, Julia Roberts owned the house right behind (we didn’t see Julia though).

This is my beautiful wife as we are snowshoeing our way up the mountain.

The mountains:


The highlight of the trip was probably the llama trek we took. It was only a couple days long, but a great experience. We highly recommend trekking with these affable animals. While they are in the camel family, they are not large enough to carry people, so they helped out and carried our gear. 🙂 Stuart (our guide) filled us in on all kinds of details on the surrounding flora and fauna.


Llamas have a definite leader when they are in a group and this was our group’s leader, Azul.

Ok, I will end this entry here. I have picked out almost 100 pictures, so it will take a few parts to finish this one. 🙂
–Jim