Category Archives: journeys

Vancouver weekend

Posted on 2009/09/28 by Jaime Silvela

This weekend, Tom, my old friend from the Bear Stearns days, flew to Vancouver, and I drove to join him. It was my first time to Vancouver, and my first time to Canada too. We had spectacular weather, although it … Continue reading →

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Montana and after

Posted on 2009/09/07 by Jaime Silvela

The trip to Glacier NP, Montana, happened a week ago. It’s about time I posted the photo album. Since it feels far away now, I’m not doing a write-up. Know that it was a good, intense hike, and that each … Continue reading →

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New Zealand re-scans

Posted on 2009/07/08 by Jaime Silvela

At last, I got around to sending the negatives from my trip to New Zealand in 2003 to be re-scanned. As happened with the Grand Canyon photos, the re-scans are a substantial improvement over what I had. The colors are … Continue reading →

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Photos from Utah, Virginia and DC

Posted on 2009/06/03 by Jaime Silvela

It will be a while before we pool and geo-tag our photos to make the official albums. In the mean time, here are albums with the shots from my camera: Bryce Canyon hike Virginia and Washington, before the wedding

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A hike and a wedding

Posted on 2009/05/18 by Jaime Silvela

I’m back in Seattle now, after a great vacation in Utah, Nevada and Virginia. I’m exhausted. The four-day hike across Bryce Canyon was great. When Guillermo gets back from his honeymoon we’ll be pooling our photos together, geo-tagging them, and … Continue reading →

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Grand Canyon, remastered

Posted on 2008/12/06 by Jaime Silvela

On Tuesday, when I got back from New York, a box was waiting for me at home with the rescans of my photos of the Grand Canyon, which I took in the summer of 2004, during a ten day hike … Continue reading →

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Portland weekend

Posted on 2008/09/07 by Jaime Silvela

Phew, I’ve been busy! Sometimes I let my job get in the way of important things. This post is about last weekend, which happened to be Labor Day Weekend (Monday was off). Tom came over on Thursday night, and we … Continue reading →

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Adventures in the rainforest

Posted on 2008/07/29 by Jaime Silvela

Every now and then, things go wrong the right way. This weekend I had organized a hike in the Olympic peninsula, since the hike JP organized two weeks ago went so well. The Olympic peninsula is about a three hour … Continue reading →

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Camping trip

Posted on 2008/07/14 by Jaime Silvela

At last, my first camping trip since I moved to Seattle. In fact, my first camping trip in a long time. My friend JP from work asked if I was interested, and of course, given the great weather we’ve been … Continue reading →

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Too much for the body

Posted on 2008/06/11 by Jaime Silvela

It was a storm of a weekend. I went to Buffalo for Andrea’s wedding, saw Niagara Falls, and put up with the airlines… My flight was supposed to get to Buffalo on Friday at midnight, but got delayed a couple … Continue reading →

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