What are your jeans doing today?

[dkatz]

Through pastures, to a little gate

And, like Alice in Wonderland, through the little gate was a different world: the jungle!

We went through,

down,

over,

and all sorts of other prepositions in the jungle

to a beautiful little waterfall

Learned why they're called "jungle gyms"

ROYxCones got their Tarzan action on

[dkatz]

Out into pastureland, around crater lakes

At least someone was hard at work

Photographing poop is serious business

Up, up, up

C'mon, Homegirl!

And, for those of you who have seen a fair few of my posts, this photo will be unsurprising

Nice view, eh?

Ahhhh

A "flame tree". Prevalent in Western Uganda, and gorgeous.

Our guide showed us how, as children, they would harvest the flowers of the flame tree and, with the addition of a twig to each flower, make themselves great make-believe poultry farm magnates

As well as how another type of local leaf could be used as velcro - ideal for building leafy sun hats

[dkatz]

Having finished our trek, back to Fort Portal town we went

To reward ourselves with a shockingly good dinner of pizza and delicious Italian wine at Pier's Italian restaurant in Fort Portal

The next morning, up and at 'em, out of Fort Portal town southward toward more Crater lakes and Kibale National Forest.

On their way to school...

at Nkuruba Lake to check out some campgrounds and, straight off, MONKEYS!

This summed up our shared sentiment well

We wound up staying at a different campgrounds, though, because they were quite nice. Homegirl did the heavy lifting in the tent set-up

Not a bad spot...

The next morning we decided to walk back, through village roads, to Lake Nkuruba to have a look around.

Tea plantations are all over this region

Stopped at Rwehambra (?) trading center for some breakfast

[dkatz]

Not bad for about $1

And the nice lady through in some chillis for free

Market

Working the tea fields

Coming upon this scene made me happy. A grip of ladies and gentlemen out digging their fields, chatting away and laughing, laughing, laughing

Oh how far we've come

Back to the Lake Nkuruba campsite, where our friends also returned.

The run between stands of trees

With a passenger!

One by one, they all made the risky trek

[dkatz]

And, once safely there, the fun began. Fly monkey, fly!

We wandered down through the dense vegetation toward the lakeside

And found a nice little path going around the lake

Hark, what be that in the tree?

Another monkey!

Go monkey, go! Flyyy!

Through the jungle

To a nice little rock in the lake

[dkatz]

Jungle steezin'

VINES!

On the way back, we found this super creepy little bungalow built into the hillside

Maybe if I had dug around I would have found some Sansome-esque 19th century kitenge scraps?

A beautiful flame tree on the boda ride home from Lake Nkuruba

Jungle-cuffs...

Ended the day with some nice r&r

The next morning, decided to do a jungle EDC shot

On our way to another lake we stopped by the "Top of the World" hill

[Vanquish Gold]

Totally adore what you have posted Dkatz,, wish I have the funds to embark on such an adventure....

[dkatz]

^ Thanks! Fortunately working (ie. being paid to live) in a country makes traveling around it much more economically viable, even when earning the pittance I have been for a couple years.

Stopped by Nkuruba for breakfast

Some different fauna this time: hornbills

And on to the gorgeous Ndali Lodge

Back on the trail

Nice tree...

for climbing!

Down a windy little trail

to a bustlin harbor

and back up

[dkatz]

Jungles make me feel like this:

Up to a slightly different ecosystem

Wandering through village paths, wound up traipsing through a homestead

I was pretty nervous about hanging around for a minute to snap a couple quick pictures, due to the fearsome...

GUARD DUCK!

Continuging along. I love the blue borehole gate

Homegirl was inspired to show off her ninja skills

Then I decided it was a good idea to follow a "trail" down to the waterside again.

Homegirl was less than entertained.

[dkatz]

Finished out the hike by trekking through a different sort of "jungle": a primary school

...where we picked up an entourage

Finally they went their way and we went ours

There's a storm a-brewin'

The next night I discovered our tent was under close guard from all birds, small primates and other intruders. The next morning I made friends with our guard.

We decided to drive into Kibale Forest a bit.

Lousy photo, but we learned that the locals have some interesting habits

Stopped for some breakfast on the other side of the forest. Mmm, katogo (sarcasm...).

Passed by this nice looking place.

But wait a second, is that...

Whoa now!

[dkatz]

Two more posts' worth of photos for now, hope you all won't ban me for this bomb...

Some more locals having a drink

Baboons everywhere! They're considered quite a pest in this part of the world. The babies are still cute, though!

There must have been about 50 of them at this point. Kinda spooky.

Didn't want to run out of fuel around the baboons, so stopped at a petrol station

Picked up a bit of a DIY dinner

Hey little guy!

Next morning, Into Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary

At least somebody's hard at work

[dkatz]

Get a room, you two. This is a family show.

Passed by some interesting exotic fauna. Notice how the body covering is carefully selected for maximum African-jungle-trekking-suitability and REI-supplied awkwardness. Me? Judgmental?

Guarding neighboring crop fields from monkey invasions (seriously...)

Back to Fort Portal. Damn traffic jams.

After that action-packed five days, I met up with my good friend to visit her village home for the weekend.

After so much moving for so many days, spending a weekend doing nothing but eating and sleeping was exactly what the doctor ordered. Not much to see; spent most of my time like this

All right, I'll leave you all alone for a bit now. Got a handful of pictures (not nearly as much, I promise) to share from Nairobi, Kigali and my last days in Kampala (!!!) but I'll put those up in the next couple days. Now, back to travel-preparations!

[wayoutwest]

dkatz, wonderful pictures. What do you fill your pipe with?

[DocBlue]

[edmond]

god damn it doc that bike looks small on you! hahah great bike!!!!!

[Rivet Head]

Saving abandoned bunny babies:

[fre-co]

I've watched my cats chew the heads off rabbits like that.

Nice photos doc, can't rep

[tropicalbird]

Looks like Bugsy is dying. Put it out of it's misery

[Rivet Head]

I hear cats like to chew the heads off birds too? Hmmmm....LOL!!

[dimpra]

went to blackpool, one of the most famous vacation spot in UK

the old man and the sea

cont'd

[fre-co]

I hear cats like to chew the heads off birds too? Hmmmm....LOL!!

Oh yeah, mine just leave the birds feet usually.

[dimpra]

enough with the flicks, now it's time to treat myself with fish&chips by the sea

fin.

[laxlife1234]

This past weekend I went up to 'Cuse, Binghamton, well.. upstate NY, and had a bit of fun. To start the weekend off I had to drop off the dogs. Most of the photos lack image quality because they were taken from inside a car.

Then we were on our way to Upstate--5 more long hours. Couldn't do it without the help of some trusty snacks.

On the way up we saw a military convoy with trucks probably from Iraq since they had the opening for the machine gun, they also had the bullet proof glass.

About 3 hours into the trip we were getting hungry so we stopped off at the famous Roscoe diner (so famous I never heard about it).

No pictures of what i ate as I didn't feel good and was not hungry.

Then we hit the road again, and on the way up to Syracuse we visited Binghamton (my top 5 for where I want to go to college). Didn't take any pictures of the actual campus, but I assure you it is a pretty nice campus and maybe in 2 years you will be able to see it

Then we finally arrived to our destination which was syracuse, and we also visited SU which was a HUGE campus. These are just 2 buildings, the first one is the college for journalism and the second is for art.

We walked around the campus a bit and ate at this pizza place since I was starving, but the pizza wasn't great, I was actually so hungry I couldn't wait and burnt my mouth to the point I had a couple of blisters.

Anyways we left eventually and went to this nice lake onendaga lake I believe was the name.

We walked around there but went into town but nothing was open so we just walked around and it was a pretty nice town, but boring. Anyways we saw this nice GTO.

We then proceeded to go and have something to eat. I wasn't hungry at all so I only ordered a salad, and the place was mediocre (some Italian joint). Finally it was that time of day to go to the hotel and check in and as we were driving (this was the ghetto we were passing through) this barber shop cracked me up.

No shots of the hotel as pretty much everything is boring.

[laxlife1234]

Well, that was end of Day 1! Onto day 2.

Well we got up and had to find a place to eat so we found a little diner (which was amazing), no pictures though, and we hit the road again. The parents wanted to find a farmers market and we eventually went to 3, but on the way there was a great view.

Then we saw this antique shop where I got a new camera! Well, technically it is 30 or so years old, but it is new to me.

We then left and hit the road again. Where we were was pretty much all country and farms, barely any civilization. Anyways there were windmills which to me was freaking awesome they are HUGE, and I know they are but IRL they look even bigger.

The main point of this trip was to visit the Baseball HOF museum. I fucking hated it (not because I play lacrosse), but because the shit was so boring. I swear, I will never go back there. After that we walked around cooperstown and found this cool shop that sold chocolate and some lady inside told us to visit her shop down the road. I did and bought this jerky, let me tell you this shit is HOT. They also had habanero jerky and I can barely eat this. Oh, and I also bought lego candy

Well, we left cooperstown since it was about 6 p.m. and we needed to start heading home we passed some cows, and such.

It was going to take a while but there was an AWESOME view of these mountains as you can tell from this photo, and excuse the annoying window but I was bummed that I couldn't take a shot outside.

There was also a beautiful sunset but the rest of the trip home was mainly driving. We stopped at a farm stand and got some more stuff but that was pretty much it.

[laxlife1234]

Some cool clouds...

Awesome sunset:

civilization...

[saintkeat]

Gave this thread a rest from my posts for a day, now its back to my amateur hour.

This was my 2nd favourite Eastern European city. Budapest, Hungary.

Buda being the hilly side, and Pest being the flat side, separated by the long river Danube. Quite an unusual terrain for a country don't you think?

Fisherman's Bastion

Hungarians are actually descendants from Huns! As depicted in the Heroes Square. Under every hero (ruler) there's an illustration of a significant battle in their life, carved in bronze.

A school of pink stingray circling around a defenseless shrub patch.

Detoured to the famous Gellert Geothermal Spa. Was a relaxing experience meditating with this great view!

Took a champagne cruise on the river Danube

[smittybat]

The main point of this trip was to visit the Baseball HOF museum. I fucking hated it (not because I play lacrosse), but because the shit was so boring. I swear, I will never go back there. After that we walked around cooperstown and found this cool shop that sold chocolate and some lady inside told us to visit her shop down the road. I did and bought this jerky, let me tell you this shit is HOT. They also had habanero jerky and I can barely eat this. Oh, and I also bought lego candy

I love Cooperstown. I've only been once. The hall of fame is awesome if you like baseball and I love baseball. I need to get out there again.

[yo_mj]

From recent camping trip this weekend.

Roasted pig (Lechon) over the fire pit.

Stayed up all night.

Attempt at cutting.

Went hiking and of course went off the route.

[FabGeek]

It was a pretty uneventful day today...first the denim pics

got home from school

then went and got my Son these knights and horses he's been eyeing. plus it was free slurpee day at 7-11 so we got one of those too..

then got home and put on some beater shoes to go play outside(love my superga!)

blew bubbles

clamped this on Cannon's shirt and watched him freak out haha (Dad of the year award lol)

then we came inside and made him take a picture with me in front of my wrinkled up backdrop!

[robbie]

Do we have a 'shit i found at the thrift store' thread?

I tossed on my Roy contest jeans and bought this guy, made my day.

I didn't want to get the camera all FUBAR, but here is evidence of a water fight I had this afternoon with the kids :

After filling up about 80 of these damned things I was bombarded.

After we dropped the kids back home we decided it might be fun to get dressed up for no reason and go out, so we did. Headed to a local burger place I'd been wanting to check out.

Some pictures of us 'dressed up'. It isn't tux and tails, but ...

We started out with a frosty mug of their home made (on the premises) root beer. It was so tasty, lots of vanilla which sealed it for me.

Took a look at the menu. Always get a chuckle when I see places STILL calling them 'Freedom Fries'.

Very promplty thereafter the food arrived,couldn't get the whole thing in, but this is important because I am smiling. Usually anytime I need to smile for a picture I have to think of this joke that always makes me laugh/smile :

' what did one tampon say to the other?................................... nothing, they were both stuck up cunts.'

so, this was a real genuine smile.