Chill Travelers – NOBO’s

We went into deep undercover to penetrate the inter-sanctum of a southern religion and now tell our story of a gathering of like-minded followers steeped in lore. Read our story and see it in pictures. [–Read More]

The launch of CRS-6 by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as seen from our lagoon. Chill Travelers looking skyward [–Read More]

A Chill Travelers presuppositions is to look up and see what you are missing in life. Sometimes when you see something, you have to imagine what it would be like to speed things up or slow them down. Technology lets us do that if you are patient.

Spring warm weather clouds and thunderstorms make for a spectacular show. Even more spectacular when animated at one frame every three seconds. This was shot from our lagoon over a time of one hour. [–Read More]

Two baby great horned owls make the entry into the world known and Chill Travelers were there. Here are a few photos of the new borns. [–Read More]

We are working on some very exciting new developments for Keys at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. This morning we had the opportunity to get up close and personal at the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. At 4:55am, this is the picture I got. [–Read More]

This has been an interesting few days with the end of the world coming on the 21st (;-]) and Ray Kurzweil being named Director of Engineering at Google. Since leaving the corporate world more than 15 years ago, I cannot imagine Ray tolerating employism. [–Read More]

We have been in Cheyenne, Wyoming establishing our new corporate entity here.   While we were visiting our bankers and the economic development people, we heard that the UP steam shop was based here.  A little further investigation and enlisting the help of Wendy’s dad, a railroad veteran and expert, we found out that the UP 844 steam train would run east beginning  June 8, 2012. It was an [–Read More]

Our accountant Jim reminds us to never never offer any positive comments about California because of the California State of Mind tax rules that make our income taxable if we even infer any kinship to California.   So, with that in mind, one of our media friends from Sedona Arizona created a video using a technique called tilt-shift to create a toy-like overview of a [–Read More]

HOT AIR  by Bob Root Just started reading Richard Branson’s new book “Reach For The Skies.”  What impresses me so far is that he honors the heroes that succeeded in changing the world of flight with an equal emphasis on those that tried and failed.  Reading the first few chapters, it dawned on me that I had captured some video at the Santa Paula Airport this past February.  When I reviewed the [–Read More]

We travel North America on business 365 days a year.  During parts of the year we like to find a place to rest and work at a little slower pace.  The Springs at Borrego in Borrego Springs is just one of those places. By far, this is one of the finest best maintain RV parks that we have seen.  The amenities, care, attention and offerings [–Read More]

Borrego Springs has been full of adventure for us and we plan more excursions into the desert and mountains.  Bob used to off-road race in the are and made the trek over the mountains when he lived in SoCal. Our trip here continues to be amazing.  Last night was the Lunar Eclipse and it arrive late on the 20th and the full eclipse occurred in the early morning  of [–Read More]

Wendy has always wanted to see Yellowstone National Park and I have wanted to go back and spend time just exploring it rather than a quick auto tour. So we made that left turn on I-90 at Livingston Montana and headed for Yellowstone. We spent the day exploring the things we wanted to see at the pace that we set. Here is a video of [–Read More]

We left Rapid City with hopes of punching through the rain and the snow with a weather forecast predicting the 70’s in Coeur d’Alene Idaho. A conversation while heading for Billings caused some left turns. As it turns out, Wendy has never been to Yellowstone National Park. Truth be told, I have only been there for business meetings flying a corporate jet in and out [–Read More]