As you may recall from last year, when I go on vacation I like to take a lot of pictures. And then when I get back, I am usually a bit overwhelmed by all the pictures I’ve taken and it takes me a while to go through them all. So in the meantime I make and post a big giant index print so as to give people a sense of what I’m up against.

This year I went to a wedding in Fredericksburg, TX, which also gave my lady and I some time to hang out in Austin, which is a cool town. Then we caught Amtrak’s Texas Eagle to Chicago (a 26 hour train), then we caught the Empire Builder to Portland (a 48-hour train), then we caught the Cascades to Seattle and eventually flew home. We spent about a day in each city, and more than 75 hours on trains. It was awesome.

I took 1,777 pictures, and made some hefty modifications to the RMagick script that processes them into what you see below. It still needs some more optimization for memory usage, plus I need to account for my camera’s choice 3 different aspect ratios – right now the script just squeezes pics that aren’t 16:9.

Naturally, the highlights from the above are coming soon to my Flickr page.