Julie and I just got back from a great trip to Germany, Greece, and Turkey. 18 days or something like that. We visited Berlin, Crete, Santorini, Selcuk (Ephesus), and Istanbul, and had a little bit of layover time in Mykonos and Frankfurt. There are a lot of highlights and things to describe, […]
Really funny– today I saw a CNN article titled “Pirates Sieze Indian Vessel with 25 Aboard.” Forgive me if it seems a bit silly to see this on the CNN.com website rather than in a 1760 newspaper clipping from London.
How is it that pirates can still be successful when there are guided cruise missles […]
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These are my feet. I took this photograph in Australia while I was whale-watching on Fraser Island. It’s a bit weird but I kind of like it.
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I ran the Chicago marathon last weekend with Kate and her friend Sarah. Kate beat me by 16 seconds!!! I’d like to say that my lack of training had something to do with that, but I’m super proud of her– she worked hard and deserved to beat me. My […]
As you may or may not already know, I came home a little early.
A couple days of surfing in chilly/rainy Byron Bay was enough to learn and enough to want to surf more, but I was ready to come home.
All it took was a 12-hour overnight bus, 24 hours in Sydney, and […]
Surf’s up. I surfed today for the first time. Sweeeeeeeet! I took a lesson with Black Dog surfing, which was funny because I was wearing my Black Dog shirt from MV.
Anyway, the feeling of catching a wave on your own (albeit an already-foaming wave, on a 9-foot foam board) is pretty […]
Now the trip is really flying. The last two days, I’ve been on Fraser Island, just a few hours north of Brisbane. I’ve seen a shipwreck from 1935, whales migrating north for the winter, a couple of dingoes, some scary-looking spiders, beautiful lakes, sand dunes, and lots of people trying to drive 4×4s […]
I’m so relaxed right now you might think I were drugged or something. Not so. I’m just back from 70 hours on a tallship, the 19m “Alexander Stewart”.
I couldn’t really begin to explain my state of mind right now, but I will try. You know the movie Office Space, right after they visit the hypnotherapist? […]
Time for a quick update. After a very long day of buses and such, I am now in Airlie Beach. I went diving in Port Douglas on Wednesday and met several people from Port O’ Call (the only backpackers’ with free transport to/from Cairns). We went out for seafood; it was probably […]