About norconkm

I'm a person. I live in Grand Rapids, MI and work as an Electrical Engineer. My hobbies at the time of this writing are kayaking, skiing, archery, photography and maybe biking. As this is my personal blog, my hobbies are likely the primary topics about which you will be reading.

Octoberfest

[singlepic id=1848 w=480 float=left] One of the evenings when we weren’t cramming schnitzel into our faces, we went out to Octoberfest to drink large volumes of fair-to-middlin’ beer.  In hindsight, this was not a good idea, but it would have been rude to decline our hosts’ invitation. The entire todo… Continue reading

German Countryside

[singlepic id=1847 w=480 float=left] What’s interesting about this picture is not the pretty little village, it’s that this was a typical two lane road that we were on every day going to and from the plant.  Germany is known for the autobahn, a road engineered to be almost 2x as… Continue reading

Schnitzel

[singlepic id=1846 w=680] And, what does one get to eat at the Werner restaurant?  A meter long schnitzel!  For those who might not know, schnitzel is fried steak.  This place served schnitzel that was a meter long… and our table downed two of them.  It was not a healthy trip. … Continue reading

Uncle John’s Cider Mill

[singlepic id=1843 w=480 float=left] Happy Halloween!  This is the most Halloween picture I could find in my archives and it’s completely a shill for a place that I don’t really care about.  I might have some pictures of pumpkins somewhere else in the archives, but I’m not sure where they’re… Continue reading