Baseball

American League's Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners waves to spectators as he arrives at Busch Stadium before the MLB All-Star baseball game in St. Louis.

Tour de France

Samuel Dumoulin of France and team Cofidis, Benoit Vaugrenard of France and team Francaise des Jeux, Mikhail Ignaties of Russia and team Katusha and Thierry Hupond of France and team Skil-Shimano ride in the break away past a field of sunflowers during stage ten of the 2009 Tour de France from Limoges to Issoudun on July 14, 2009.

Tour de France

From today's ninth stage of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race run between Saint-Gaudens and Tarbes.

Tour de France (Spain)

The riders make their way under a bridge near the start of stage 6 of 2009 Tour de France from Gerona to Barcelona on July 9, 2009 in Gerona, Spain.

Tour de France

The pack with Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, right, passes through a tunnel near Beziers during the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 196.5 kilometers (122 miles) with start in Le Cap d'Agde and finish in Perpignan, southern France.

Tour de France

Dutch cycling team Skil-Shimano's rider Fumiyuki Beppu of Japan (C) concentrates on July 7, 2009 before the start of the 39 km team time-trial and fourth stage of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race run around Montpellier.

Tour de France

Italian Giusto Cerutti has a broken wheel after a fall. According to the rules he is not alowed to accept help. Tour de France 1928. Location unknown.

A photo from the Netherlands' Nationaal Archief Flickr collection.

(The Tour starts tomorrow in Monaco.)

Wyoming/Utah/Nevada

Basketball to the heavens. Elko, Nevada.

The Great Salt Lake in western Utah.

A view of Flaming Gorge Lake in southwestern Wyoming.

In front of the Laramie (Wyoming) County Library. Voted best North American library in 2008.

The boy acting as a puck in front of the Utah Grizzlies hockey arena.

The view from the hallway carpet in some hotel in Elko, Nevada.

Nebraska & Wyoming

The boy on a Union Pacific locomotive in North Platte, Nebraska.

The number six.

Obligatory rear-view mirror photograph somewhere in western Nebraska.

Railroad crossing. Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Cowboy sign. Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Illinois & Iowa

Behind The Ride on a dirt road in the middle of Iowa.

Hogback Covered Bridge, one of the actual bridges of Madison County, Iowa.

The boy and I riding along the Mississippi river.

In front of a Very Large Tractor at the John Deere Pavilion in Moline, Illinois.

Normal, Illinois

Me and Abe.

At the GLT Jazz/Blues Festival.

We did.

Crawfordsville, Indiana

The Carnegie designed library in Crawfordsville, Indiana (it's a museum now with the actual library situated across the street)

A scene from the 2009 Strawberry Festival in Crawfordsville. We went and ate ribs, sno-cones and strawberries whilst watching teenagers court and bands play country music.

Road Trip

Tonight we'll fly to Ohio and at the end of this week we'll be driving back here to California. Ample time will be had to smell the roses and we have no plan aside from stops in North Platte, Nebraska (largest train yard in the US), Badlands National Park in South Dakota, Devil's Tower in Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park. Other than that we hope to stumble and chance upon weird, interesting, and beautiful places. Your suggestions are welcome.

The computer's coming along so expect updates and photos along the way.

Look

A girl looks through a binocular telescope at a village in North Korea's city of Kaepoong at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War.

300

45 year old pro baseball pitcher Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson, currently playing for the San Francisco Giants, became the 24th player in baseball history to win 300 games in this afternoon's game in Washington DC against the Nationals.