Left: Portrait for Pajamas Media profile; dining alfresco at San Jose’s Left Bank restaurant, August, 2005 (click here for larger view).

Right: In front of a segment of the Berlin Wall, at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA, September 2003 (click here for larger view).

Above: Spain, May of 2000, at Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavillion.

At the Portola Railroad Museum, summer of 2001. Left: At the controls of an SW1 diesel switcher.

Right: On the deck of a Union Pacific Centennial locomotive, one of the largest diesel locomotives ever made. For some reason, they wouldn’t let me operate that one.

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