Category: Travel Tales

Niagara Falls: Crossing the Rainbow Bridge

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I spoke a little bit about the Rainbow Bridge last week but wanted to bring more attention to it. There are two ways to get across the bridge: driving and walking. Driving typically takes a lot longer because those crossing have to go through border patrol on each end and pay a toll. The actual

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Niagara Falls Wine Tasting

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Originally we did not have a wine tasting on our to do list for Niagara Falls. However, due to flight times we flew in a day earlier than we had initially planned. We already had a big falls tour scheduled with Niagara Regional Tours and my sister talked to them to get a winery tour

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Welcome to Niagara Falls

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In 2022 our girls trip found us exploring San Francisco on bike and drinking all the best bubbles Napa Valley had to offer. 2023 found us enjoying to roar of the Niagara Falls on both the US and Canada side. We flew in to Buffalo, New York. A taxi service took us across the border

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Cameras, Buying Film, and Film Labs

Cameras Acquiring a film camera is both easier and more difficult than you think. Plenty of antique stores have old film cameras. However, they may not always work or they may take a type of film that is no longer made. Disposable cameras are still available but being one time use they aren’t the best

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Small Town Kansas in Film

Over the summer we went to Keltin’s home town for the 4th of July. Keltin’s parents gave us their old Pentax K1000 35mm camera. The only film owe had for it right then was a roll of 400iso Kodak film that had expired 20 years before. Thankfully, expired film can be used. Quick research told

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A Rollicord Review of Sorts

You may have noticed an influx of film photos in the last year and I think it is time to discuss the camera itself or at least the initial one. Anytime we get a new piece of equipment I have Keltin review it for me, for this blog, because he is primarily the one behind

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Traveling with Film

I have been considering this film series for a while and obviously I’m not talking about film as in movies but film as in analog format photos. A little over a year ago Keltin got a 120mm TLR camera for his birthday. This Rollicord camera was built in Germany in 1938 and still takes fantastic

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Waco Mammoth National Monument

I am way behind on my posting. Blame the holidays. Back in September I had the opportunity to visit the Waco Mammoth National Moment. This is site has actually been on my list to visit for a while and I was happy to finally have a chance to visit. This location is the only know

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Phoenix in Review

This was a great – if hot – trip. We had the opportunity to see a variety of what Phoenix had to offer. There is more that I would like to do in the area, particularly hiking but summer was not the best time for that activity. If you missed any of the posts, see

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