Recent Trips

Penn State vs. Purdue, State College, PA (November 2007):

Corey, Morgen and I (and John) before the game	Pretty good air on the pushup after a TD (photo by Dave Meyer)	JoPa and McQueary getting in the refs face (photo by Dave Meyer)	My dad came up for the game and we went to Mad Mex after	Morgen, my dad and I
Corey, Morgen and my dad	Morgen, Ari, Corey and Jan

Halloween, State College (October 2008):

Ashley carving her pumpkin	Ashley stole my pumpkin so I was stuck with an ugly one	Pretty good for two artistically challenged people

Fallen Leak Lake, California (October 2008): IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop

I was on the management committee so I didn't have time to take many pictures	View from our penthouse room in South Lake Tahoe

Summer 2008: IBM Internship (Hudson Valley, NY)

Ashley and I (and Sean) at the pool in Bethany Beach, DE	I rented this clown car since my truck hated NY	Fishing from an old brick plant on the Hudson River	Ashley was the only one who caught anything	Benmarl Winery main building
Nice view of the Hudson River valley	Ashley and I went wine tasting	Some pretty flowers	Nice landscaping	Front of the main building
Fountain at the winery	Isn't she pretty?	My favorite picture of Ashley; 1000 Acres Dude Ranch

Phoenix, AZ and Gainesville, FL (May 2008): International Reliability Physics Symposium and SRC Review Meeting

The Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson; a childhood favorite of mine	Old mining equipment at the museum	Mountain lion scaring the kids who banged on the glass	Prickly Pear Cactus in boom	A sleeping wolf
A prairie dog and a roadrunner	Another desert plant in bloom	Prickly Pear again	I wanted this Bobcat to attack that bird so badly	I think this is an Organ Pipe Cactus
Some kind of coyote or fox	The always a classic Saguaro Cactus picture	Nature trail near the museum	Some really nasty looking cacti	A skeleton Saguaro
Weird looking plant in the desert	Saguaro's and red rocks	Another Saguaro	Big horned sheep performing a balancing act	Crazy squirrel in with the sheep
This big lizard was wondering around the museum	The bird sanctuary oasis	Blooming plant in the bird sanctuary	Random cacti and Agave	This is the best hummingbird picture I could take in the hummingbird sanctuary
This might be some kind of Agave	The road leading into Sabino Canyon (the cool part was closed)	Saguaro's near the park entrance	Lots and lots of Cacti	Dry river bed at Sabino
We only got to see a small part of the stream at Sabino	Depending on the time of year, this stream and flow pretty heavily

Hudson Valley, NY (April 2008): Apartment hunting and Orange County Choppers

The apartment search was boring, so I visited Orange County Choppers less than impressive showroom	A police bike with sidecar	Junior Military Auction Chopper	Junior Dream Bike	No idea what bike this is
David Mann Bike	The Eragon bike was the most impressive	Christmas Chopper	No idea what this one is	Lance Armstrong Chopper
No idea what this one is	Another view of the Eragon Bike

Washington DC (February 2008): National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Langley Aerodrome A	The lighting was bad so this P38 Lightning and most others came out blurry	The Enola Gay: dropped the first atomic bomb on Nagasaki	This is basically a death trap they towed behind a submarine for observation	They have a lot of really cool planes here
A space shuttle in the space room	Back of the space shuttle

Santa Fe, NM (January 2008): Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductor Interfaces Conference

Albuquerque from Sandia Point	I can feel my brain boiling	Corey and I at Sandia Point	Mountain off in the distance	Church near our hotel in Santa Fe
"The Big Tree" at San Ildefonso Pueblo	Me screwing around in a ancient house at Bandelier National Monument	Indians build homes into the side of this cliff	Corey checking out a surprisingly roomy house	Another Pueblo whose name I can't remember

Benton, PA (December 2007): Ricketts Glenn State Park

Ashley checking out the underground coal fires at Centralia	I think Ashley should wear that lion hat all the time	Ashley and her dad	Waterfall at Ricketts Glenn State Park	Another waterfall at the park
I think there are 22 waterfalls in the park	The trails were very icy	Ashley and I near a waterfall	This place is really worth checking out	Ashley and I again

Fallen Leak Lake, California (October 2007): IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop

Sunrise at Fallen Leaf Lake our first day	The conference center	Waterfall near the camp	Mount Talac	Stream through the valley
Another shot of the stream	The conference center is on the opposite shore	Sunrise the second day	Foggy and snowy	Mount Talac with a little snow
Some Aspen trees	Pine trees near the camp	Mount Talac again	Waterfall higher up on the mountain	Taking the afternoon off
Cool looking tree seen on our afternoon off	A couple lakes up in the mountains	A beaver dam is responsible for this lake	More Aspen trees	Aspens yet again
It was switching between snow and sun	Back side of Mount Talac	Another water fall even higher up the mountain	Yet another beaver dam lake	An old Dodge Power Wagon found up high in the mountains
Sunset near the entrance to Yosemite National Park	Our annual visit to Glacier Point	This really is the best viewpoint in the park	No risky picture opportunities this year (see 2005 IRW trip)	Bridal veil Falls

Europe (August 2007): Vacation and ULSI/TFT Conference

    Dublin, Ireland

Trinity College College Park	"Sphere Within a Sphere", Trinity College	Parliament Square at Trinity College	Graduates Memorial Building, Trinity College	Dublin Castle
More of Dublin Castle	St. Patrick's Cathedral	Finished around the year 1270	The Nave of St. Patrick's	Flags of the Irish Regiments of the British Army (WWI)
Guinness Brewery, St. James Gate	View of Dublin City from the Guinness Brewery bar	Me enjoying a warm one at the Guinness Brewery	We managed to fine "a" Ryan's pub, not "the" Ryan's pub	Malahide Castle, circa 14th century
Somewhat weathered graveyard at Malahide Castle

    Pisa, Italy

Pisa from the Ponte Solferino over the Fiume Arno	The Leaning Tower and Duomo from the east	The Leaning Tower from the south-west	Me in front of the Leaning Tower and Duomo at the Campo dei Miracoli	The Baptistry at the Camp dei Miracoli
The Duomo from the upper level of the Baptistry	The inside of the Camposanto which is claimed to be the most beautiful cemetery in the world	Cool looking something in the Camposanto (I'm working on it)	One of the many, many tombs in the Camposanto floor	View of the Duomo and Baptistry from the top of the Leaning Tower
Same caption as the last, but with an ESR scientist added	Santa Maria della Spina along the Fiume Arno

    Conference Site (Near Barga, Italy)

The town of Barga (about 60 km north of Pisa) from our hotel	ECI can sure pick a conference site	Our hotel, il Ciocco	Barga from the hiking trail while being followed by a pack of insane dogs	The Cathedral at the center (and top) of Barga
View of our hotel in a beautiful Tuscan valley from Barga	I'm surprised this came out so well considering all the vino

    Rome, Italy

Basilica di San Pietro from Piazza San Pietro in Vatican City	The pope window	Cool looking statue in front of St. Peters	Piazza San Pietro from the summit of St. Peters dome	Inside of St. Peters taken half way up the dome Photo by Corey Cochrane
Inside St. Peters from ground level Photo by Corey Cochrane	Baldacchino over the tomb of St. Peter Photo by Corey Cochrane	Castel Sant' Angelo (circa 130 AD)	The ridiculously crowed Spanish Steps from Piazza di Spagna	Piazza della Repubblica
San Maria Maggiore (circa 430 AD)	The front of San Maria Maggiore	The Temple of Antonius and Faustina at the Roman Forum (circa 141 AD)	Arch of Septimius Severus (circa 203 AD)	Some more ruins at the Roman Forum
Looking down at the Roman Forum	The Arch of Constantine near the Colosseum (circa 312 AD)	Inside the Colosseum (circa 72 AD)	Looking back at the incredibly crowed Colosseum	National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II (circa 1925 AD)
Can't figure out what this is near the forum	The very cool Fontana di Trevi (circa 1762 AD)	Neptune with his underlings at the Fontana di Trevi	The Pantheon, temple to "all the gods" (circa 118 AD)	The inside of the Pantheon
Dome of the Pantheon showing the oculus at the top	La Maddalena near the Pantheon (circa 1735 AD)	Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in the Piazza Navona	Can't figure out what this is or where it is near

    Florence, Italy

The unfinished wall of San Lorenzo (circa 1419)	Palazzo Medici (circa 1444)	Campanile and myself from the top of the Duomo	Another shot of the Campanile (1359)	Santa Croce from the top of the Duomo
Duomo (1463) from the top of the Campanile	Top of the Duomo (note the people on top)	The Baptistry (4th century) at the Duomo	Front entrance to the Duomo	Dante's statue in front of his former home
Fontana di Nettuno (1575) in the Piazza della Signoria	Michelangelo's David in front of Palazzo Vecchio	Perseus beheading Medusa by Cellini	Another shot of Perseus in front of Palazzo Vecchio	"Davey Jones" on the base of the Hercules and Cacus Statue
One of the rooms in the Palazzo Vecchio (1322)	The front of Santa Croce (~1300)	The tomb of Galileo	The tomb of Michelangelo Photo by Corey Cochrane	The tomb of Machiavelli Photo by Corey Cochrane
Ponte Vecchio (1345); the only one the Germans didn't destroy in WWII	Rear courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti (1457)	Long path in the Giardino di Boboli	Piazza di San Giovanni	Santa Maria Novella (1357)

    Monaco-Monte Carlo

Corey posing next to a couple Ferrari's	The mountain side country of Monaco	Note the super ritzy cars parked in front of the Monte Carlo Casino	Monte Carlo Casino at night	Looking north east at Monaco
The fancy cars where one thing, these yachts are over the top	Side view of the Monte Carlo Casino	The beautiful beach we spent most of our time on

    London, England

A gate in front of Buckingham Palace	Buckingham Palace	Big Ben in the distance	The very cool Westminster Abbey	Front of Westminster Abbey
More of the Abbey	The back of the Parliament Building	Close up of Big Ben at Parliament Square	Parliament Building along the Thames River	Barely enough time to hit a few sites before the sun set
The London Eye and County Hall

Reading, PA (June 2007): Mid Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend

This Mitchell is named in honor of Morgen's years as a gun-fighting Mexican rooster	B-17 Yankee Lady	The B-17 at takeoff; I'm taking donations for a ride in it next year	A Japanese Zero shortly before launching a surprise attack on the 25th Infantry Division stationed nearby	Me with the Gunny
Close of up Morgen with his unit	The 25th posing after taking out those Zeros	Chicks dig fatigues	This half track is named in honor of Morgen's years as a cigar-smoking porcupine sergeant

Downingtown, PA (May 2007): Johnny and Karen's Wedding

The party (school) bus heading to the wedding	The grounds at the Brandywine Manor House Inn	Another view of the grounds	Perfect setting for an outside wedding	Couldn't have had better weather
Last minute preparations	Johnny G with  Dave	Mr. Uptmor escorting Karen	The wedding party	The grooms crew
Of course they said "I do"	The gentleman Russ	Johnny's brother looking professional	Justin playing to the crowd	I've known this guy forever
Fellow Ville alum Timbo	The best man and maid of honor	Johnny and Karen have their first dance as a married couple	Krystal and I	Justin and Kim
The Layman family	Justin, Erik and I	Natalie, Amy, Krystal and Kim	Nick (Frenchy) and I	The man of the hour and I
The whole crew	Sal and Dave at the after party	I still don't know where these sombreros came from	Sal and Rosa (they are next)

San Francisco, CA (April 2007): Materials Research Society Spring Meeting

From our room on the 24th floor of the Parc 55	3rd year in a row at this meeting: nothing new to show	At least the weather was really nice

Tempe, AZ (March 2007): Nano and Giga Challenges in Microelectronics

Sun Devil Stadium	Check out the big "A" on the hill	Nelson Fine Arts Center	Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium	A few saguaros on campus somewhere
Fountain near the student Memorial Building	The infamous Palm Walk

Malaysia (Jan 2007): Vacation

Brad and I with Shakir and a bunch of his Malay friends barbequing on the beach	Malay woman making Batik	Brad and I with Shakir's father outside the Nordin Batik store/factory	A silversmith at Krafperak Kelantan Silvercraft in Kota Bharu	Me in front of a local Mosque
Shakir's backyard	Shakir's house in Kota Bharu in the state of Kelantan	Typical street in Kota Bharu	The central market in Kota Bharu	The most pimped out trishaw in all of Malaysia
Your not cool unless you get your clothes at Istanbul Fashion	Street corner in Kota Bharu	The drivers are even more nuts here than in Sicily	Brad and I with Shakir and part of his family	After a 7 hour taxi ride we made it to Shahrul's house in Temerloh in the state of Pahang
Shakir and Shahrul	Road to Taman Negara National Park	Visitors center in the park	Our jungle trek begins	We are definitely not in State College anymore
Cool looking blue fern in the park	Brad, Shahrul, and I in front of some bamboo	View of the river from the canopy walk	Shakir having second thoughts	Shahrul shaking the walkway a little too much
Me on 1 of 5 walkways	Some camera shy monkeys	We took a swim in this river; just ignore the leeches and snakes	Some bungalows in the national park	Nothing beats a Noba Burger
View from Dak's 39th floor penthouse condo in Kuala Lumpur (KL)	Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC) and the Petronas Towers	Another shot of the 2nd tallest buildings in the world	Close up of the skybridge	A park at KLCC complete with a Buddhist Monk
View of KL from the KL Tower	Apparently the haze is from forest fires in Indonesia	More of KL from the tower	The Petronas Towers from the KL Tower	More of downtown
The KLCC park from the Petronas Towers skybridge	Some of the city from the skybridge	Surprisingly, it is free to go up the skybridge	Shakir, Brad, Shahrul, and I in the skybridge	Shahrul at our hotel in Pulau Langkawi in the state of Perlis
The Tanjung Rhu Beach	Apparently people from Bollywood commonly film movies here	You can walk out to the right most island during low tide	Seriously considering never leaving	The Pantai Tengah Beach
I didn't think about grad school once...and I loved it	Despite the sun tan lotion, I got burned in 15 minutes flat	Some rocks on the beach	Jason Campbell's private island (donated by Dautrich Mercenaries Inc.) were his illegal rum-running business is based	With the help of his Graduate Sailor Assistants, he earned the title "Distinguished Rum-Running Warlord"
Sunset over Pantai Tengah Beach	Old school gas station seen in Langkawi	Some Monkeys looking for peanuts in the river	Mila from Uzbekistan feeding a monkey and its baby shortly before the alpha male wanted to kill us all	Taking a boat ride down the river in the mangrove
A bunch of bats in the Gua Kelawar Bat Cave; they are blind so the flash doesn't bother them	The entrance to the bat cave in the mangrove	We saw a surprising number of baby Gar (supposedly) in the river	I never saw it, but a scene from Anna and the King was apparently shot here	Inside the Crocodile Cave
The roots of the Mangrove trees	Narrow passage on the river	A bunch of eagles; Langkawi means Eagle Island	An island out to sea a little bit	Feeding frenzy of some tropical fish
A bunch of coves with small beaches	Very cool looking mountains	A nice beach on a deserted island	One last look at the beautiful ocean and mountains	Can't remember the name of the "floating restaurant"
5 foot long monitor lizard	A monkey eating some watermelon; they are cute until they act like they want to gnaw out your larynx

Boston, MA (Nov/Dec 2006): Materials Research Society Fall Meeting

Looking East towards the Atlantic; the big one is the John Hancock Tower	Looking South-East; Logan International Airport in the back	Looking North-East from the Prudential Center observation deck	Looking North-East; the clouds went away for only a few minutes	Looking South-West at Christian Science Church Park
Looking South	Looking West towards Fenway park; home to JPC's beloved Red Socks	MIT across the river	Cambridge across the river; they get pissed if you say it's Boston	North-East again; the Old North Church is barely visible (remember one if by land, two if by sea?)

Lehigh University, PA (August 2006): Philadelphia Eagles Training Camp

Brian Dawkins	E.J. kicking with the team	My father and I at the training camp	Corey's brother and I	E.J. and Corey Cochrane

State College, PA (June 2006): Electronic Materials Conference (All photos from Morgen Dautrich's camera)

Beaver Stadium at dusk	Group shot at the stadium (take 1)	Group shot at the stadium (take 9)	Morgen and Dave with the Nittany Lion	All but one of us is a magnetic resonator
Morgen, Me and Corey at the Phyrst	Corey and I traveled over 5000 miles to make it back in time

Catania, Italy (June 2006): Workshop on Dielectrics in Microelectronics

Our hotel: Hotel Santa Tecla Palace (Photo by Corey Cochrane)	The swimming pool which was filled with sea water (Photo by Corey Cochrane)	The Mediterranean Sea and Santa Tecla from our hotel	Mount Etna	A building buried in lava
Smoking volcano and lava flows	This lava flow was from the 2002/2003 eruption	This is an older lava flow	The Greco-Roman amphitheatre in Taormina (300 B.C)	They were setting up the amphitheatre for a film festival
Another view of the stone work	Mazzeo from Taormina	The north half of Taormina	The southern half of Taormina	Agrigento from the Valle dei Templi
Tempio di Ercole (510B.C.)	Road loading up to the Tempio della Concordia	Necropoli Paleocristiana	Tempio di Giunone  (450B.C.)	Tempio della Concordia (430B.C.)
Another shot of the Tempio della Concordia	The temple with Agrigento in the background	Statue of Zeus at the Tempio di Giove Olimpico (480 B.C)	Most of the remains of the Tempio di Castore e Polluce	Tempio di Castore e Polluce (480 B.C.)
The Mediteranian and Valle dei Templi from Agrigento	The sidewalks in Agrigento contain many stairs	Another picture of downtown Agrigento	The landscape of central Sicily	Another shot of the landscape
The beach at Mazzaro (down hill from Taormina)	Sick looking beach	We didn't mind that some people didn't want tan lines	An old church in Taormina	Side alley with restaurants and shops
Street in Taormina	The WoDiM banquet entertainent (I would have prefered a picture with the cabana girls)	Driving: the people have no idea what "personal safety" means (photo by Corey Cochrane)	Corey and I at the hotel	Why is Joe Paterno serving us food in Sicily? (photo by Corey Cochrane)

Reading, PA (June 2006): Mid-Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend

WWII chick manning the machine gun	Comment	Nazi troops	German AA gun	MG-42 Machine Gun
A few Karabiner 98k's	German armored personnel carrier	German motorcycle with side car	Group shot of the Luftwaffe	1942 MK1 Ford Universal Carrier (British)
25th Infantry's Bofors gun (40mm anti-aircraft autocannon)	Comment	B-17 "Yankee Lady" taking off	P-51 "Glamorous Gal" Mustang	P-40 Warhawk
The Lancaster Bomber	B-25 Mitchell "Briefing Time"	F4U Corsair	B-25 Mitchell "Yankee Warrior"	Cat D-4 used by the Seabees
.30 cal water cooled machine gun	Armored Personnel Carrier	A Jeep armed with a few machine guns	This half track could use a few more machine guns	Luftwaffe Major
Group shot of the 25th infantry (morgendautrich.com)	Flamethrower in action (morgendautrich.com)	Glamorous Gal (morgendautrich.com)	Private Dautrich with Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey (morgendautrich.com)

San Francisco, CA (April 2006): Materials Research Society Spring Meeting

Random street in San Francisco	Looking downtown from Chinatown	The Bay Bridge from Pier 23	Hyde Street from the cable car	The windiest street
The bushman bum	Sunset from Fisherman's Wharf	Downtown from Moscone West	Downtown from the Cityscape bar in the Hilton	Golden Gate Bridge in the distance from Cityscape
Me after winning the best poster award	Downtown at night	I assume this is some kind of capital building	Corey at Bridalveil falls	El Capitan from the valley
Nevada Falls from Clark Point	Corey and I	Vernal Falls from the John Muir Trail	Vernal Falls	Merced River near Nevada and Vernal Falls
The top of Vernal Falls	Looking down Vernal Falls	The mist trail in the distance, it was closed for a reason...

Exton, PA (April 2006): Justin O'Brien and Amy Prisk Wedding

The newly weds	Justin and Kim	Sal and his date	Some of the guys	Justin and I
Tim and Natalie	Janella and Kristen	Johnny and Karen	The Ciosteks	The whole crew
Moylan acting silly	Justin O'Brien: world poker champ

Austin, Texas (March 2006): Advanced Gate Stack Engineering Working Group Meeting (SEMATECH)

Yet another sunset at Lake Travis	From the Oasis	National Instruments equipment room	View of downtown from our hotel	Pete would not ride with me
Downtown from the top floor of the hotel	Mardi Gras on 6th street	It was quite an act	Possible incriminating photos	The capital building from across town
My favorite building in downtown Austin

Miami, Florida (Jan 2006): FedEx Orange Bowl (PSU-26 vs. FSU-23)

Corey and I in the pool after a long drive	Corey, some random dude and I celebrating new years (the random dude was cool and ended up buying us drinks)	A large Iguana wandering the beach in Key Largo	Nice little beach in Key Largo	January in southern Florida
The 7 mile bridge on the way to Key West	Disney cruise shipped at Key West	Parrot man	Sunset at Key West	Tensions were high as this barge almost blocked our sunset view
Another sunset picture	Corey and I at the sunset celebration	Corey at the Orange Bowl Beach Bash at Hollywood Beach, Florida	I think it was snowing in Pennsylvania on January 2nd	The Beach Bash was totally dominated by Penn Staters
Me, Marty and Corey at the Beach Bash	We never did find the supposed "after party"	Seminole Hard Rock Cafe and Casino with a sick pool side bar	Outside the Seminole Hard Rock	The Ram made it to yet another kick ass tailgate
Playing Flip Cup with other Penn Staters	Even the parking lot was totally dominated by Penn Staters	Do you see any Florida State fans?	Corey playing Flip Cup with our tailgating neighbors	Dolphins stadium shortly before game time
The Penn State football team warming up	Penn State takes the field	Triple over time; don't forget to breath	Penn State wins!!	Mountains of empty beer bottles and other trash
A gator taking a swim in the Everglades	A gator resting on the bank	I was more afraid of this crazy squirrel than I was of the gators	A guy from the gator farm showing us how to play with alligators

Fallen Leak Lake, California (October 2005): IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop

Salmon spawning	Meadows near Lake Tahoe	View of Lake Tahoe from the meadows	Lonely tree near the beach	Lake Tahoe early in the morning
View of Fallen Leak Lake from the Stanford Sierra Camp (SSC)	Cool looking waterfall near SSC	Another lake up in the mountains	View of Mount Tallac from my cabin	View of Fallen Leaf Lake from my cabin
Mount Tallac from the kayak we took out	Kayaking in Fallen Leaf Lake	The lake was perfectly calm this day	Campbell and I posing	Campbell and I taking a polar bear swim in the freezing water
Cool looking stream near SSC	Campbell posing near a fallen Giant Sequoia in Yosemite	Me posing under the roots of a Sequoia	Me posing by the Grizzly Giant in Mariposa Grove	There was no way we were NOT going to cross the stream bed on this tree
Half Dome from a turn out near Glacier Point	Another view from the turn out	Half Dome again	Glacier Point has the sickest view in all of Yosemite	Campbell and I on Glacier Point (3,200 foot sheer cliff)
El Capitan from the park entrance	Close up of El Capitan

Austin, Texas (September 2005): 2nd International Symposium on Advanced Gate Stack Technology (Sponsored by SEMATECH)

Late night science discussions with Amr H., Pat L., and Bill K.	A view of our hotel lobby (The Omni Downtown)	Me with T.P. Ma and Dr. Lenahan	View of our hotel lobby from the elevator	The building looks like an ice castle
Cool looking church downtown	Texas state capital building	Another view of the capital	I really don't know what this is	A sick house overlooking Lake Travis
View of the sunset from the Oasis restaurant	Another view of the sunset over Lake Travis

Kinzers, Pennsylvania (August 2005):  Rough and Tumble Annual Thresherman's Reunion

Bill Glenn's 1952 Cat D2  and our 1936 Cat 22	Another picture of the two coolest machines at the   show	Avery 25-50	The engine in this 1937 Farmall is a Harley V-twin (this was one of the most popular machines at the show)	Huber tractor
Linn Half Track (I want     one of these so bad)	1908 Three Ball Klein:    Two cylinder 6,371 cubic inches, hours run = 412,000	Unknown 2 cylinder stationary engine: Click here to see a video of it in action	Rough and Tumble has one of the largest collections of steam powered tractors: Click here for a video of the noon time whistle blowing	Steam roller
Sawyer Massey steam powered tractor: Click here to see a similar steamer in the tractor pull	Rough and Tumble also has one of the largest collections of Rumely Oil Pull tractors	1961 Deutz DK75B Crawler	Click here for a video of the 1930 Atlas Imperial 3 cylinder engine in action (Max RPM of 360)	Click here for a video of a gas powered roller in action

Seattle, Washington (July 2005):  Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference

On the way to Mount   Rainer	On the way to Mount   Rainer	Paradise visitor center- Mount Rainier	View of the visitors center	Don't slip on a rock near this drop off
Pretty cool path going right through this rock slide	The peak of Mount Rainer was in the clouds all day	Morgen and Dr. Lenahan running from the fog	Cool shot of the fog rolling down the hills	Building in Seattle
Building in Seattle	Street corner in Seattle	View of the city from our boat	View of the Space Needle from our boat	Morgen and I found this quite amusing
Cool shot of Mount Rainier from Tillicum Village	Lonely boat parked offshore	Space Needle	Space Needle	Shot from a very high floor   in the Bank of America Tower
Its not to often you are in a building looking down at a skyscraper	View of the city from the public market	Public market entrance (We were in no way impressed   by the so called "fish throwing")

Singapore (July 2005):  International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies

View of Boat Quay and business district across the Singapore River	The Fullerton Hotel from across Marina Bay	Merlion Park and the Fullerton Hotel	Singapore Parliament Building	Raffles Hotel
Singapore City Hall	Fountain of Wealth-largest fountain in the world    (Suntec City)	Esplanade-Theatres On The Bay	Bonsai Garden-Suntec City	Sentosa Island
Sentosa Island	Southernmost point in continental Asia-Sentosa Island	This is were backhoes go to retire-Sentosa Island	View of the city from the   Pan Pacific Hotel elevator	View of the city from the   Pan Pacific Hotel elevator
One of the many places to shop in Chinatown	Anyone hungry?	Crazy mask shop in Chinatown	Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple	Sri Krishnan Temple
Sri Mariamman Temple	Sri Veerama-Kaliamman Temple	Typical street in Little India	Morgen and I with the Sake stand attendant -Tokyo Narita International Airport	Morgen and I at the    Merlion Park
Sippin' on Singapore Slings at the Raffles Hotel Long Bar	Last night in Singapore at some local hawker stalls (I wont even mention the   antics at Chijmes)	Singapore Military practice maneuvers	Me with a snake dude at    the ICMAT banquet (why did  he have to rub the  snakes head on my face?)	Me with another snake over looking Boat Quay (the snakes name is Charlie Brown and he is super friendly)
Typical menu for a Chinatown hawker stall	Morgen D., Jimmy Y., Dr. L, and me at the ICMAT banquet (Click here to view the banquet itinerary)	Click here to view a copy of the 9 course Chinese dinner menu at the banquet (Yes, I did try them all)

Santa Barbara, California (June 2005): Electronic Materials Conference

Somewhere between LA  and Santa Barbara	Cool restaurant on the way up the coast	Part of our hotel	A beach we visited in Santa Barbara	Morgen and I flipping Corey before the seaweed battles
The edge of the UCSB campus	Those are campus buildings on top of the bluff	Penn State does not have walking trails like these	EMC reception at the university center.  I think we set a record for most beer and wine drank by a university group	This beach is adjacent to the UCSB campus
That is student housing on top of the bluff	Pribicko using his ninja skills to blend into the butterfly garden at the EMC Banquet	The crew at the Santa Barbara Mission	Santa Barbara Mission	Me, Morgen D., Corey C. and John C. having a science moment (photo courtesy of morgendautrich.com)
The Penn State ESR team (photo courtesy of morgendautrich.com)

Willow Grove, Pennsylvania (May 2005): Willow Grove Naval Air Station Annual Air Show

WWII Japanese Zeros in formation	A few planes on the tarmac	F-16 on display	Japanese Zeros and F-14's	The Blue Angels C-130   (Fat Albert) airplane under rocket assist takeoff
The Blue Angles rolling out	Four of the Blue Angles in close formation. Click here for a video of this formation	Two of the Blue Angles in even closer formation.    Click here for a video of a crazy move	These guys are pretty sick, I would hid in a cave too if planes like these were after me

Brownsville, Pennsylvania (May 2005): National Pike Antique Machinery Show

1929 Fairbanks Morse 3 cylinder diesel engine (14" pistons)	I found this Cat 15 hiding behind a barn	Steam powered Type B Erie Shovel, built by Ball Engine Co. (click here for a video  of this shovel in action)	Caterpillar 30 with a blade	Caterpillar 60 (I want one of these so bad)
Caterpillar 8C 20 (small 20)	Caterpillar D8	An antique bucket wheel excavator	A nicely restored Cat D2  and scraper	Bucyrus Erie shovel (Click here for a video of the dump truck in action)
Caterpillar D9, this is a big toy	The show grounds has a   very large "play area" with many toys	Another Caterpillar D8	A Cat D4 in action

California (March 2005): Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (San Francisco), Yosemite National Park, and American Physical Society Spring Meeting (Los Angeles)

View of Downtown Los Angeles	Downtown LA from the convention center	Staples center	Downtown LA	Downtown LA
Outside eating area at our hotel	Our hotel, The Westin Bonaventure, was in several movies including True Lies starring Arnold Schwarzenegger	Our hotel in Yosemite Valley, The Ahwahnee	Yosemite Falls	Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls
View of the mountains	Its hard to see but this is a bobcat eating a squirrel	More mountains	View of the valley	El Capitan
Quite a drop off down to the Merced River	Vernal Falls in the distance.  The trails up to it were  closed due to snow	Bridalveil Falls	That's a big rock	View looking back at the valley on the way out
Looking back at the valley  on the way out	This is the tunnel in and out  of the valley	This is the coolest guy to ever ask me for spare change

Tallahassee, Florida (December 2004): National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

This is the rig we did our big science on	Another picture of JVT's rig	They have many similar rigs	Big magnets all over the  place	I think this is a really big NMR magnet
Cool place on the gulf we  ate lunch at	The beach at St. George Island State Park	Silhouette of Neal skim  boarding	Neal skim boarding.  I was freezing since I had no wet suit and I also fell on my ass every time I stepped on the board	The Caboose!  The favorite eating place of the magnet lab's EPR division

Austin, Texas (November 2004): International Workshop on Advanced Gate Stack Technology (Sponsored by SEMATECH)

View from our hotel, the Lakeway Inn	View of Lake Travis from our room	Sunset over Lake Travis	Dusk at Lake Travis	This is a sick house
We took an evening cruise/dinner on this boat  The Flagship Texas	Another sunset over Lake Travis	Texas in November	A peacock at Mayfield Park	Mayfield Park community gardens
Unbelievably nice houses seen on Gennadi's tour of Austin	This "house" has a garage for the owner's boat	Inside the Texas capital building	George Dubbya's portrait in the capital building

Kinzers, Pennsylvania (August 2004): Rough and Tumble Antique Machinery Show (ACMOC Meeting)

Caterpillar D-8	A nice load of Caterpillars	Alex and Pat Sosik's High Ten	Caterpillar D-2	Cat was very well represented this year
A couple 22's with a 60	Caterpillar Ten Motor Patrol	Nicely restored Best 30	Caterpillar 20	Caterpillar 60
Matt driving our freshly restored Cat 22 in the parade of power

Arizona and California (August 2003): Caterpillar Hunting in Arizona and California, Exclusive Golden Gate Bridge Tour

The Heidrick Ag History Center is the largest of its kind in the world	Belt Rail Single Track B (1918): Only one known in existence	Best 25 hp Model B (1918)	Best 40 hp Model D (1916)	Best 60 Diesel Conversion:  1923 Best 60 with a 1933 Caterpillar 50 diesel engine
Best "Humpback" 30 High Drive (1913): Only one known in existence	There is no way to show all of the machines here and it is assumed that I want every single one of them	Caterpillar 10 (1928): Named "Grandpa", Fred Heidrick also has eight more just like this at his house, they are named after his eight grandchildren	Caterpillar 10 Expo (1928): Experimental Cat 10 painted white for display at fairs and such.  Only a couple of these ever made	Caterpillar Wide 10 with swamp tracks (1929, front) and a Caterpillar Orchard 10 (1929)
Caterpillar 20 Expo (1926): Experimental Cat 20 made from Cat 2 Ton parts and Cat 20 parts, only five were ever made	Caterpillar 60 Diesel (1931): This is the FIRST Caterpillar diesel ever sold, s/n 1C2 (s/n 1C1 was sold after this machine)	Caterpillar 65 (1932)	Many, many more machines	Cletrac Model F (1918)
A few more of the Cletracs	Fordson Snomobile (1926): It can also travel on bare ground	A few of the Holt machines	I think this is a Holt 45 Model B (1909)	Holt 60 (1914): Holt is the original company to use the word "caterpillar" to describe it's machines
Holt 120 (1917): Built for the military during WW1 to tow artillery.  This is the only one known in existence	A view of the massive six cylinder engine	Holt model 45	Holt Midget 18 (1915): The smallest tractor built by Holt	Holt Military 10 Ton (1917): Built for the military during WW1.  The entire machine was armor plated, except the drivers seat...
John Deere BO Lindeman (1952): These are the first crawlers built by John Deere	"Old Smokey" (1944): A homemade crawler made from spare parts with a Cummins diesel engine	Not quite sure what this one is	I am also baffled to what this is	Yuba Ball Tread 12-20 (1920): The tracks rode on a series of ball bearings, which were frequently lost
A few Caterpillar 60's and a Holt 60 (I think) waiting for restoration	Best 30, Caterpillar 30, Caterpillar 60 and a couple others	Not one, but two Holt 75's: Each of these is worth more than a brand new Ferrari	Alcatraz	View of the Golden Gate bridge
It helps to know people to get a view like this	Matt and I signed our lives away before we went up	Straight down to the road deck	We went up on the south tower	After the extremely small elevator we had to climb a 30 foot ladder
View straight down to the water	That's me trying not to be blown of the top	In the movie "The Hulk", the Hulk takes a rest on this spot	Matt and I standing on the narrow grating	Me with Marey Carey: A porn star who recently ran for governor of California

Brownsville, Pennsylvania (Aug 2003):  National Pike Antique Machinery Show (ACMOC Meeting)

Caterpillar 2 Ton	Caterpillar 10, 15  and 8C 20	Caterpillar wide 7C 15 and 35	Caterpillar 7C 15 pulling a road grader	Nicely restored Cat 20
Caterpillar 8C 20 and 30	Nicely restored Cat 22 with orchard fenders	Caterpillar 28 with side seat option	Caterpillar 28 side seat pulling a road grader	Nicely restored Cat 30 with blade
Caterpillar 60 with propane/butane conversion	Military Caterpillar D-4	That's either a D-7 or D-6 doing some dirt work	Caterpillar D-8 helping a Euclid scraper	Caterpillar 10 with a homemade blade
A few Cats at work	Caterpillar 5 Ton	Caterpillar was well represented this year

Tempe, Arizona (January 2003):  Arizona State University and Hoover Dam

We found a few cats on the side of the road	That's a nice looking cat ten in the front	Statue of a worker on the Nevada side	View of the Hoover Dam	Looking out from the road way down river
Looking down at the generator rooms	The massive generators	Generator rooms	This is quite the engineering marvel	Another shot of the dam
One of the spillways	View of the dam from the Arizona side, check out the water intake towers	A cool arch bridge near the dam