http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/ Photos, fests, & fun This is a site for photos from recent events, parties, and other occasions of our lives. View our wedding _here_ [link]. Karl's silly homepage: still _here_ [link]. en http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/photos_karl_wagenfuehr_net/logo.jpg http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/ 144 23 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:27:17 GMT http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=187 Photos - Brasil 2011 - 07/15/11 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=186 Photos - Vermont, "Spring" 2011 - 04/23/11 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=184 Photos - Nidhi and Arvind's Bangle Ceremony - 03/27/11 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=185 Photos - Brasil 2010 - 10/04/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=183 Photos - Oktoberfest 2010, Hackensack - 09/25/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=181 Photos - Governor's Island, NYC - 09/19/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=182 Photos - Karl's family - 09/12/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=172 Photos - Vermont - 03/26/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=180 Photos - Skiing Hunter Mt. 2010 - 02/14/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=179 Photos - Karl celebrates turning 41 - 01/30/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=178 Photos - Babs visits - 01/17/10 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=177 Photos - New Year's Eve - 12/31/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=176 Photos - Halloween/Thanksgiving 2009 - 11/26/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=173 Photos - Oktoberfest 2009, Hackensack - 10/03/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=175 Photos - 2009 at the pool! - 08/18/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=42 We finally made the trip to Ireland, where my sister has been living for, oh, the last 8 or 9 years. We stayed for three weeks, and travelled around Donegal, Northern Ireland, Galway and the Cliffs of Moher, as well as spending substantial time in Dublin and surrounds, where my sister lives. Below is a Google Map of our trip to Ireland; I didn't have the GPS on all the time, so I will be adding some map points (Tory Island, I'm looking at you!), but this is pretty much it. I'll also...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=171 Photos - Brú na Bóinne - 08/08/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=170 Photos - Galway - 08/04/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=169 Photos - Northern Ireland - 07/30/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=168 Photos - Donegal - 07/24/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=174 Photos - 2009 with the Urano family - 05/23/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=166 Photos - Brasil 2009 - 04/10/09 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=165 Photos - Weihnachten, 2008 - 12/24/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=157 Photos - Syncsort Xmas Party 2008 - 12/15/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=164 Photos - Family visits: Karl's parents, uncle, and cousin - 11/22/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=163 Photos - Vania's Visit - 11/15/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=162 Photos - Marden's visit - 11/08/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=161 Photos - Autumn hiking, Ramapo, NJ - 10/18/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=160 Photos - Oktoberfest 2008, Hackensack - 10/04/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=159 Photos - Labor Day Pool Party - 08/31/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=158 Photos - Philharmonic in the Park (yet again) - 06/24/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=156 Photos - Fernanda's Parents Come to Visit - 06/02/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=155 Photos - Memorial Day Weekend in CT with Missy - 05/26/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=154 Photos - Fernanda's Birthday Party, 2008 - 05/17/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=153 Photos - Katja comes to visit! - 04/20/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=152 Photos - Spring 2008 - 04/12/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=151 Photos - Nikhil's Karaoke Birthday Bar Party - 04/05/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=150 Photos - Cross-country Skiing in New England - 02/09/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=149 Photos - Karl's Birthday Party 2008 - 01/26/08 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=148 Photos - Xmas 2007 - 12/24/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=147 Photos - Syncsort Xmas 2007 - 12/08/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=146 Photos - Oktoberfest in our Apartment - 10/06/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=41 Here is a Google Map of our trip. (I pulled the data off our GPS, which wasn't on all the time, so there are jumps, especially at the beginning till Utah, since that data got overwritten as I filled the GPS' memory...) _Click here for the map_ [link] "Blog" entries of the trip and photos start _here_ [link]. http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=40 Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Crash! We ended with a bang. Then a whimper. First off, we are all OK, no one was hurt, except the car. We started out from Iowa into Illinois a little after nine. It was another long day of driving, we just pushed through, listening to our book on CD, Fernanda driving first, through Illinois (turns out we probably would have found OK and reasonably priced motels, oh well), Indiana (we lost another hour entering the Eastern Time Zone, not that ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=39 Nebraska, Iowa An uneventful driving day. We broke 7000 miles [actually 8000 -- I accidentally misplaced 1000 miles somewhere between Utah and Arizona]. We spent the time listening to books on CD, and stopped somewhat early, only because we couldn't see getting good or easy lodging the closer we get to Chicago. With any luck and a bit of endurance, we could get back tomorrow, a day early.We started out late. I'd forgotten to change the computer time zone, so while I thought it was onl...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=38 Wyoming, Nebraska, Blow-out! Today was to be a boring driving day, get lots of miles under our belt, possibly up to 1000 km. We started at the beginning of Wyoming this morning in Evanston, we got on the road around 9:15, which is pretty good considering we lost an hour yesterday with the time-zone change. Wyoming is about 400 miles across, so we figured to do that, plus another 200 into Nebraska.It was uneventful enough to start with. Fernanda was driving, we were plowing through Wyo...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=37 Nevada, Utah, Wyoming And the long slog home has begun! A day of driving, driving, driving. Although I think we have had longer driving days.We left Reno at 8:50, and headed east. We stopped in Winnemucca to buy food and have a picnic in the park. (Middle of the desert, but they have a green lawn park, and of course someone mowing it.)And onward through Nevada. Elko looked like it would be a perfect place to stop for the night, cheap motels, a Smith's supermarket, a Walmart. Of course...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=36 California, Nevada We left San Francisco today. We're on the road again. Though it took us a while to build up the momentum to escape SF's attraction. By 2 o'clock we had only made it about 20 miles outside SF up route 1 to Stinson Beach. We were enchanted. Probably helped that it was a beautiful sunny day. We had lunch, walked along the beach, and were really kind of reluctant to go.I was feeling kind of car sick from the twisty turns of route 1 while looking at a map. It felt like w...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=35 San Francisco Our last zero mile day. We spent the day relaxedly, bumming around the city, doing some shopping. We bought three-day passes for the public transportation back when we got here. It includes buses, subways, street cars, and most importantly, the cable cars, which otherwise would cost 5 bucks a pop. So our city transportation needs are taken care of, Castro St. happens to be the end of the line for the street car, has a subway station, and of course has various buses.So af...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=34 San Francisco, Sausalito, Mill Valley, Tiberon A zero car mile day.A day marred by the jerks at an irresponsible bike rental company (Blazing Saddles).A day that started by road work crews jarring us awake at 7:30 am on a Saturday with a machine whose sole purpose it seems was to emit a banshee howl of death unrelentingly for half an hour or so, until the jack-hammers could kick in. Sleep interrupted like this during the crucial early morning REM phase can disrupt you for the entire ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=33 San Francisco Today we've put the fewest miles on the car so far -- if we didn't have to find a new parking space this morning it would have been zero.We bought three-day MUNI passes which let us ride the buses, the street cars and some subway, I think. Turns out there are two public transportation systems, BART and MUNI. MUNI is the one that runs the cable cars, so we got that. We spent the day riding the cable cars (when they would stop and let us on -- too many damn tourists) and d...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=32 Yosemite to San Francisco We have made it across the continent!We started today with our second day in Yosemite. We went the northern, "meadow" part up in the mountains, with almost no expectations. The ranger at the gate took our pass as if we were handing her a used handkerchief. Forewarned, we knew to look for signs for 140 to get to the part we were looking for. We drove for a while, and eventually came to Tenaya Lake. We had a picnic, then spread a blanket on the beach and spent ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=31 Yosemite My biggest anticipated park on our trip, and probably our last, has also turned out to be the most disappointing! Let me explain: Yosemite the physical location is absolutely beautiful; Yosemite the National Park is verging on disaster. Maybe that's too strong a word, since I could imagine much worse, but of all the National Parks we've visited, Yosemite has been the worst. The idiots responsible for some of the more inane things at the Grand Canyon obviously took post gradu...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=30 Sequoia, Kings Canyon National Parks More fun with payphones this morning. We decided to buy a phone card, only to discover they charge a $1.50 surcharge for using it at a payphone -- a 15% surcharge over the value of the card, each and every time! Bloody robber barons! So we went back to the motel and used the phone at the front desk. No luck with finding my keys at the Grand Canyon...So after driving in circles a few more times, off we were to Sequoia National Park! On the drive up,...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=29 Nevada, Death Valley, California Today we drove from the deserts of Nevada into the deep desert of Death Valley. Crossing into California is interesting, because it is the same desert, yet it seems somehow cleaner, better taken care of; Nevada only has this desert, so they drive their trucks over it, build their casinos on it, throw their trash in it. California has this part of it that is desert, something special. Or maybe the heat was getting to me and I was hallucinating.And what ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=28 Arizona, Nevada For all my bad-mouthing of Prescott yesterday, we spent a pleasant morning in it, and it seemed nice. We didn't leave town till after noon. We drove downtown to find a payphone and wifi, and decided to visit the fair going on in the town square. I did my email in front of the library again, even though I knew the wifi from the library requires a library card, but the library was a place to park, since there was no parking to be had at the town square, and also one benc...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=27 Arizona Today was not a good day for me. Starting at 5 am people started noisily leaving the lodge; in particular the zoo animals next door kept leaving and coming back to leave again, and when you finally thought they'd left, they'd come back and do it again, so that by the fifth time I got up and opened the door and shushed them. By this point it was too late, my sleep had been ruined. The final touch came a little later with some guy proclaiming, "Ausgebung!", till your brain final...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=26 Grand Canyon Day 14 -- half-way through! And we haven't even hit the Pacific yet.Today was spent seeing the sites of the south rim of the Grand Canyon. In the morning we went to the western part only accessible by shuttle bus, all the way to  Hermit's Rest; then in the afternoon we went to the eastern part, all the way to Desert View, the part we drove through last night in the dark. (We found out that the fires we saw are part of a controlled burn, managing the forest with natural fi...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=25 Moab, Utah to Grand Canyon Off to a late start today. I tried to get all my internetting done before we left the Apache Motel, because I knew I wouldn't have wifi access for a while. However, it was very frustrating work -- the connection was slow, it was like being back in the days of dial-up. It took about a minute to update each caption to a photo, and just when you had a good rhythm going, the connection would drop out on you. So I had to give up on the captions, I only got half-w...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=24 Canyonlands We left the motel this morning around 9:40. We weren't in any particular hurry. I checked my email, fixed a few things on this site...We drove out to Canyonlands, which is on the other side of the road from Arches, only it's then a further 25 miles to the park entrance. We did a leisurely trip through the park, driving down all the roads and stopping at all the stops. We did a few of the shorter hikes. If you have any vertigo, like I do, then this park is a rush, as you ca...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=23 Arches National Park This morning we were the last people to leave the motel -- we didn't leave till nearly 10! We were trying to arrange lodging for the next two nights while we still had access to a telephone and some sort of wifi. I had to hang out in the lobby with the laptop since we couldn't get the wifi in the room. I was looking up motels in Moab and uploading pictures and text from the last five days, while Fernanda was in the room calling places. All the room finding service...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=22 Utah We left the motel this morning at 8:30 -- a new record! Then we crossed into Nevada and Pacific Time, and it was 7:30! Then we quickly left Nevada and started losing time. We drove back towards Salt Lake along the Salt Flats on route 80 -- a straight, flat stretch through flat, white, almost featureless scenery; a very interesting drive (and the whole reason we'd diverted this far west for the night). We stopped at the rest stop right at the beginning (next exit 49 miles...) and ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=21 Grand Teton, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada?! (Well, not quite) OK, so again, today was a full day. (Every day is, and every day I write the same thing; I also write that the scenery was spectacular -- well, it was!) At night in our tent cabin, we were molested by no bears. The wood stove was nice and warm, though I had to keep getting up throughout the night to feed it wood. At one point I woke and it was pretty cold, so maybe I'll believe them that it got close to freezing. Fernanda d...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=20 Yellowstone to Grand Tetons We got up eagerly this morning with the anticipation of a bathing in the hot spring fed river again. We actually got out of the motel before nine, that's how motivated we were! We got to the bathing spot at 9 o'clock. We stayed about an hour, soaking in the churning water. We realized this is the Ur-jacuzzi, the effect they are all trying to simulate, but will never quite equal: on one side you have a mini-waterfall of scalding hot water, on the other you h...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=19 Yellowstone Today was a full day. We are both completely exhausted, but still exhilarated.We left the lodge at nine this morning, managing to make it in one trip to the car with all our baggage and cooler and crap. The shower situation was not a problem; maybe everybody else gets up way earlier, or else just doesn't bathe.It was overcast when we set out. We went off in the same direction we went yesterday. Almost immediately we saw people stopped by the side of the road. There was a b...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=18 Wyoming, Montana, to Yellowstone Today started with us trying to work out the logistics of the next couple days, lodging-wise, weather-wise, travel-wise. Since we'd heard all these horror stories about Yellowstone being full up and no lodging to be had, Fernanda was calling the 800 reservations number. I was trying to use the pathetic, on-again, off-again, only-works-from-one-spot motel wifi to get some alternative information on other places to stay, on weather conditions, and plot o...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=17 Black Hills of South Dakota, into Wyoming So we started out today plotting how to steal ice and leech wifi. We drove in front of one of the many motels down the road from where we stayed, and I war-drove for open networks. We also looked where there might be an ice machine. I tried in front of the Holiday Inn, but couldn't really connect to their network. Just down the parking lot though we got a strong and clear open network (called "linksys") in front of a bar that wasn't even open....[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=16 South Dakota, Tourist Traps, Badlands, to Keystone (bleargh!) Today was a lot of stopping and going, and all within one state. We left the Hotel Ortman at 9, bought ice for the cooler, and headed off into the open space of South Dakota. We stayed off the interstate for a while, just to see what it's like; lots of farms growing corn. Speaking of corn, we almost immediately came to the first of today's major tourist traps, the Corn Palace of Mitchell, SD. Mitchell is one of the bigger t...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=15 From Chicago, through the Wisconsin Dairyland (Cheese!), Minnesota, and into South Dakota Making miles today! I drove for a change, and we put three and a half states under our belts today. (We also discovered how to reset the car's mileage indicator, so now we have a true idea of our average, without the data of the idiots who drove the car before us messing it up: the car gets about 35-36 highway.)We left Chicago and my cousin bright and early at 9 o'clock. It was raining on and of...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=14 Through Ohio and Indiana to Chicago My cousin Jade from Rio is spending a year in Chicago with her husband who is doing a Masters in Law, so we arranged at the last minute to stop by and visit with them. So, Chicago was the destination for our second day on the road.From Ohio where we spent the night we set off; the weather was not as nice today -- it rained most of the way. Fernanda again did the heavy lifting, while I played navigator and radio operator. One audio book down already ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=13 Through Pennsylvania Into Ohio So today we embark upon our road trip -- California and back or bust! -- for the next month. I slept badly so was grumpy all day. From my parents' house we picked up the rental car -- our home for the next month -- in Delaware. We have a Chevy four-door Cobalt with Delaware tags. It's automatic, and even though it is the "economy" rental car, the fuel display has it only getting 25 mpg -- boo! (Fernanda managed to boost that up to 28 mpg through good hi...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=118 Photos - 5th Brazilian Film Festival, NY - 08/08/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=116 Photos - Fernanda's Birthday Party 2007 - 05/19/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=12 Karl's mother took me to Europe for one week to cruise the Seine river. We arrived in Paris, then sailed up to the Normandie region. The ship then crashed into a barge on a foggy morning and we had to change our plans. We joined another cruise that was touring Belgium and the Netherlands. http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=114 Photos - Amsterdam - 03/30/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=113 Photos - Volendam - 03/29/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=112 Photos - Antwerp - 03/28/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=109 Photos - Vernon - 03/26/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=111 Photos - Château Gaillard - 03/26/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=110 Photos - Château de Versailles - 03/25/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=97 Photos - Ski Trip 2007 -- Mount Snow - 02/17/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=96 Photos - Karl's Birthday Party - 01/27/07 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=95 Photos - Weihnachtsfeier - 12/24/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=94 Photos - Syncsort Xmas Party 2006 - 12/09/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=91 Photos - New Car! - 11/28/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=90 Photos - Random New York - 11/05/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=108 Photos - At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - 10/24/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=93 Photos - Wander Lucio & Christy - 10/20/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=92 Photos - Oktoberfest at Bear Mountain - 10/08/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=89 Photos - New England - 09/30/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=106 Photos - Barbeque with John and Petya - 09/03/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=87 Photos - Sabira's Birthday Party - 08/12/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=86 Photos - Allegra's Birthday Party - 07/30/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=85 Photos - Opera in the Park - 07/18/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=88 Photos - At the Beach - 07/16/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=107 Photos - Ante Syncsort Group Dinner - 07/14/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=84 Photos - Word Cup, USA - 07/09/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=105 Photos - Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, once more - 07/08/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=83 Photos - Brasil 2006, Ceará: Fortaleza, Jericoacoara - 06/17/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=11 This year's trip to Brasil was in two parts: a little more than a week in Belo Horizonte, and a week in the northeastern state of Ceará; consequently there are two photo sets:_Brasil 2006, Belo Horizonte_ [link]_Brasil 2006, Ceará: Fortaleza, Jericoacoara_ [link]We went this year because Fernanda's brother was _getting married_ [link] -- there was no ceremony, they just went in front of the judge -- and then the whole family flew off for a week at the beach in the northeast of Brasil. ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=104 Photos - Karl's & Parents - 06/04/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=81 Photos - Happy Birthday Pool Party! - 05/19/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=101 Photos - Cherry Blossom Festival, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens - 04/29/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=100 Photos - Planting a Garden - 04/09/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=103 Photos - Fixing Up the Car - 04/09/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=99 Photos - At the Ballet with AFS - 04/06/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=98 Photos - Alana - 04/02/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=102 Photos - Various Times at Sean & Cecilia's - 03/05/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=80 Photos - Skiing, 2006 - Hunter Mountain - 02/18/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=79 Photos - Karl's Birthday (observed (by some)) - 01/25/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=78 Photos - Bente's Visit - 01/10/06 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=77 Photos - Xmas Party 2005 - 12/12/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=76 Photos - Ballooning in Lancaster, PA - 11/05/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=10 Ten photosets are up from our recent trip to Portugal and Spain. Captions will hopefully be added shortly... Besides the linked one on the right from Lisbon and Sintra in Portugal, the others are: _Nazaré and Obidos, Portugal_ [link] _Coimbra and Conimbriga, Portugal_ [link] _Eclipse -- Bragança, Portugal_ [link] _Porto, Portugal_ [link] _Évora, Tavira, and the Road to Spain..._ [link] _Sevilla, Spain_ [link] _Madrid, Spain_ [link] _Toledo, Spain_ [link] _Segovia, Spain_ [l...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=75 Photos - Segovia, Spain - 10/14/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=74 Photos - Toledo, Spain - 10/13/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=73 Photos - Madrid, Spain - 10/12/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=72 Photos - Sevilla, Spain - 10/10/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=71 Photos - Évora, Tavira, and the Road to Spain... - 10/06/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=70 Photos - Porto, Portugal - 10/04/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=69 Photos - Eclipse -- Bragança, Portugal - 10/03/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=68 Photos - Coimbra and Conimbriga, Portugal - 10/01/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=67 Photos - Nazaré and Obidos, Portugal - 09/28/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=65 Photos - Wander Lucio and Christy's Visit - 09/18/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=7 Through the Spring I've been adding photo sets. The set for _Brasil 2005_ [link] even has captions! (As do _Scooting to /Ashes & Snow/_ [link], _Scooting in NJ Liberty State Park_ [link], and _Memorial Day 2005_ [link]!) I fell behind in the Summer, but I'm throwing up some sets now. Maybe I'll be able to catch up before our trip to the Iberian Penninsula in two weeks... http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=61 Photos - Dinner at Sean and Cecilia's - 08/13/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=60 Photos - At the Beach - 08/06/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=59 Photos - Pool Minders - 07/30/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=58 Photos - From Ivy's Beach to Ivy's Party - 07/23/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=57 Photos - Opera in the Park for Allegra's Birthday - 07/19/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=56 Photos - Five Year Anniversary Cruise - 07/17/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=55 Photos - Social Butterflies - 07/16/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=12 Photos - Social Pictures - 07/14/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=54 Photos - Central Park Summer Stage - 07/09/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=53 Photos - 4th of July, 2005 - 07/04/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=52 Photos - A Day on the River - 06/25/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=51 Photos - An Opera in the Park - 06/14/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=50 Photos - Memorial Day, 2005 - 05/30/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=9 It was a scooting weekend! The day after _scooting in Manhattan with Allegra_ [link], we went scooting in Liberty State Park, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson, with Cristiano and Juliana. I knew all those extra scooters I had would come in handy one day! http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=8 We wanted to see the photo exhibition _/Ashes & Snow/_ [link], which was being housed in a funky temporary building made of the containers the show shipped in on Pier 54 in Manhattan along the Hudson. So we decided to make a day of it, packing our lunches, taking the ferry from Hoboken, scooting down greenbelt path along the Hudson to the exhibition, see the show, then scoot the rest of the way down to lower Manhattan and take either the ferry or the PATH back. Allegra came alon...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=47 Photos - Fernanda's Birthday Party, 2005 - 05/20/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=62 Photos - Juliana & Cristiano - 05/15/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=63 Photos - Nidhi & Arvind's Wedding (observed) - 05/07/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=46 Photos - Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival), Brooklyn Botanic Garden - 04/30/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=41 Photos - Brasil, 2005 - 04/18/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=44 Photos - About Town - 03/01/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=45 Photos - At Home - 02/28/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=39 Photos - The Gates in Central Park - 02/13/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=43 Photos - Winter, 2005 - 01/23/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=6 There are lot's of new photo sets up; in a flurry of activity just after Christmas, I finally got around to uploading pictures from the summer up till Christmas. But that's all I managed to do before the muse left me again -- no captions, no explainatin' stories... heck, they're not even always in good sequence. But I did split them up into lots of sets, so the titles of the sets give a minimal clue to what you're looking at. ...Except for those cases where I mis-grouped a photo... ...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=42 Photos - A New Year - 01/01/05 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=37 Photos - Christmas 2004 - 12/25/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=35 Photos - Syncsort Xmas Party 2004 - 12/21/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=38 Photos - More random - 12/20/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=36 Photos - Buraco night - 12/19/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=34 Photos - Thanksgiving 2004 - 11/25/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=33 Photos - Z - 10/31/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=32 Photos - AFS NYC Zoo trip - 10/30/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=29 Photos - Pumkin Pickin' - 10/23/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=30 Photos - Old Short Hills - 10/03/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=28 Photos - Whirling dervishes - 09/24/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=31 Photos - Random Fall 2004 - 09/22/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=27 Photos - Saroj's birthday - 09/20/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=24 Photos - Pool Party! - 08/22/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=20 Photos - Allegra's Party - 07/17/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=25 Photos - Family - 07/15/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=26 Photos - Guests - 07/11/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=21 Photos - Summer 2004 Misc II - 07/01/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=23 Photos - Beach 2004 - 07/01/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=22 Photos - Opera in Central Park - 06/16/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=19 Photos - Summer 2004 Misc - 06/01/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=18 Photos - Brasil 2004, the rest - 05/31/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=17 Photos - Brasil 2004, part 3 - 05/29/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=16 Photos - Brasil 2004, continued - 05/20/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=15 Photos - Fernanda's Birthday, Observed - 05/15/04 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=5 We are visiting Brasil again, after a two year absence. We'll be here until the end of May. Since we're on vacation, we'll only be connecting to the Net infrequently at random times, but we do have a new digital camera, so when we do connect, we'll be updating this site with new photos. So come back and check out our vacation as it happens.(Besides the set linked to above right, this trip produced the following photo sets:_Fernanda's Birthday, Observed_ [link]_Brasil 2004, continued_ [...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=4 From: Yadav, Saroj Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:41 PM Subject: This Saturday "I am thinking of having a gathering at my Apt for one of the Indian festivals - 'Holi' -which is festival of colors wherein people throw colors at each other and at the end of it your face ( and dress ) is all red, yellow, green and all other colors depending on the colors available :) "I am inviting all the Indian people. I am not sure how interesting it sounds to you all. If it does,...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=8 Photos - Xmas 2003 - 12/24/03 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=9 Photos - Wanessa's Wisit - 12/16/03 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=2 Subject: Friday - Oct 24th Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:43:37 -0400 From: "Yadav, Saroj" "Frenz, "Diwali is here. For those who don't know It's one of the biggest Indian festivals. So that I don't miss my family that much, on this big day, I want to be surrounded by sweet people, by inviting them for Diwali dinner. "It will be my pleasure to have all of you on that evening of Indian cuisine, NO alcohol ( coz generally no one in my family consumes alcohol that day...[MORE] http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=3 This is a collection of random photos that don't fit into their own category, either because there aren't enough of them, or they are just truly random. Digital cameras are everywhere now! http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=64 Photos - Misc Dinners, Parties, 2002, 2003 - 09/16/03 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=6 Photos - Fernanda's Very Old Family Photos - 09/04/03 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/gallery/index.cfm?WhichSet=40 Photos - Cristiano's Visit - 07/15/03 http://photos.karl.wagenfuhr.com/index.cfm?ID=1 Subject: /_Shhh_ [link]... Birthday Party.../ Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:33:41 -0400 From: "Angus, Allegra" "Dear Friends - Sunday is Fernanda's birthday. Karl, being the good husband that he is, thought we could surprise her. Proposed time for the gathering is 2 pm unless someone comes up with a better plan. Can you join in the surprise? I will be bringing an ice cream cake. It would probably be best if we could meet up and arrive at Fernanda's apartment en-mass...[MORE]