Random Photo Report: Getting the Gold...

I have an ongoing project of scanning in the hard copy photographs that fill boxes of photo albums throughout the house. I thought I'd start posting an occasional random photo and telling you a little about it.This is a picture of me standing in the Gold Medal position at the bullet-ridden Olympic Awards Stand in Sarajevo. I did a short trip to Bosnia in 1998 and seeing places like the Olympics sites was just one of the many benefits of that experience.

For anyone who has traveled to magnificent places seen on TV or in books, places like London, Paris, Washington DC, The Alamo; there is a sudden sense of wow, it seems so much smaller, but is just as awesome as I thought (I think anyway).

The difference here was after watching the Olympics on TV and then seeing the place in person, all shot-up with evidence of violence at every turn (the Bobsled track had holes broken out of it to allow gun turrets to poke through), there wasn't such a feeling of the place being small or awesome, but rather witnessing the scene of a crime. It was a great experience.

Local San Antonio members of City-Data may be interested to know that the guy on the right (to my left) is none other than MajorMadMax. The guy on the the left (my right) is even more famous: In college, he was Bucky Badger, the mascot for the University of Wisconsin.