My Camera and Me - A Travelogue

ack and I have been housesitting for about five years through Housecarers.com. My camera goes with me everywhere. We're inseparable. Bonded together permanently.

We've had most excellent assignments in

Manhattan Beach, California;
Bainbridge Island, Washington;
San Diego, California;
Dallas, Texas;
Mendocino, California;
Tucson, Arizona.

Granted that's not a huge travel itinerary but we've had multiple housesits in all of these places and it suits us just fine. You could spend lengthy amounts of time in any of these spots and never see everything there is to see.

There are housesiting opportunities all over the world! In order to travel all over the world, you must board an airplane. We choose not to do that. But that's another story.

It's been fabulous fun and my camera and I have had more photo ops than you can shake a fist at. This country is beautiful.

A hundred ten in the shade is sorta hot, but you don't have to shovel it off your driveway. ~Author Unknown

love Arizon. We once had a housesitting assignment in Tucson in September for about three weeks. It was hot!

But (and this is the truth) it was tolerable! Yes, it was. Hot in the sun but if you move into the shade the difference is remarkable.

A few more favorite photographs:

I took this spectacular photo of Mount Baker on a (rare) clear day in February.

The Deception Pass Bridge spans 1487 feet. That's over 1/4 mile in length! Approximately 20,000 vehicles pass over the bridge each day. And it has been designated a National Historic Landmark

This is a view of Puget Sound from Deception Pass which connects Fidalgo Island and Whidbey Island.

This is Ediz Hook on the Olympic Peninsula. Ediz Hook is a 3-mile long spit in Port Angeles Harbor. It's kind of a tradition for visitors to stack stones on the rocks along the spit. I have no idea why but every time I've visited there are stones stacked here and there.

Driftwood, giant seawood and rocks at the Ediz Hook

perfect climate. Not too hot - not too cold.

Five or six housesitting assignments in Manhattan Beach morphed into a lasting friendship with the homeowners and their two beautiful Siberian Huskies.

They moved out of the state this year so we won't be going back to that sunny spot but we'll stay in touch. And we will miss those sweet Huskies.

Each time we went, we filled each day with adventures and my camera and I were on a mission to record as much as we could in the time that we had.