Cairns, Queensland, Australia

2009 November - Australia, Sydney, Cairns from jim on Vimeo.

Video slideshow of our trip to Sydney and Cairns, Asutralia. Places visited included: Sydney, bondi beach, the entrance, australia reptile park, cairns, green island, hartleys crocodile park, kuranda, daintree rainforest, harbor bridge, sydney opera house, darling harbor, sydney's china town, start city casino, bird world, butterfly world, trinity beach. Special thanks to Dad, tita Alma, Cha Cha, Reese, Puka, and Gucci.

Holy Crap
just before sunset, fruit bats 2.5 feet wide descend upon downtown Cairns.
They fill the sky with screeches.
They all go after the mangos.
They're silent flyers,
But when there's 100 of them in the sky, its like your in a vampire movie
Its hard to believe they stay in those same trees during the day, you just cant see them.

9/20/2009 Sunrise Lakes, Yosemite, CA

Started the weekend with a goal of hiking a 14 miles round trip hike to Clouds Rest. But it was a bit longer than I expected. And I was lugging around a 45 year old co-worker who was close to vomiting. No offense to Pete, but faced with the possibility of dehydration, and hiking in the dark, better to just cut it short today. The beautiful thing is wherever you go in Yosemite, there is always something new to be seen, new people to meet, and great places to swim. Glad to have this place in my backyard.

Here's my buddy Pete jumping off a twenty five foot cliff. Not bad for a 50 year old. I chickened out. It was one of those things where, the more I stared at that cliff, the more I freaked out about jumping.

Great America, 3 point shootout

Won the son a yoga ball from Great America.
I owe it all to Mully (Chris Mullin).
Funny thing is.....I think it feels better to win a prize for my kid than to hit a game-winner.
Maybe because I've never done the latter.
I love this game.

9/2009 Ultimate Frisbee Music Video

09/2009
I decided to attach a camera on my head to film our saturday morning outings playing ultimate frisbee. It was OK besides the fact there was no footage of me making spectacular plays. You'll just have to take my word for it. Old school 90's AFI punk seemed a good fit for the video. Hope you like

Outside lands festival, San Francisco, Pearl Jam

Karaoke with son. Outside Lands festival. San Francisco. Pearl Jam. Betterman

Hike to Mt Tallac with my dogs

Video of my hike with the dogs up to Mt. Tallac. Dogs arent allowed on alot of popular trails in Yosemite so I researched and found this trail in S. Lake Tahoe. Ranked a 10 by kevin gong's hiking page (http://www.kevingong.com), this hike was indeed a sight to see. Its about 5 miles and 3100ft gain to the top and there are views of the great lake tahoe basin and desolation wilderness. On the way up, you pass by beautiful cathedral lake, an alpine lake with bolders a and granite surrounding the water. I would have went swimming if it was a little hotter. Great hike...

Trip to Yosemite with the homies, Tuolomne Meadows

Great trip besides the altitude sickness. This video should provide some insight on the ongoings at camp. Glad to have the same group going every year. They're always up for the torture of the wilderness.


A bear ran thru the outside boundary of our campsite and scared the crap out of everyone. Everyone was panicked but I kept my calm. I just jumped into the minivan.