Wednesday, December 31, 2008

San Isidro

›
I've emerged from a nice sabbatical in Aimee's hometown-away-from-hometown. After the fracas that was the Nicaraguan border post, th...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Lest I forget...

›
My passport was returned after the Nigaraguan border crossing, by the way. An immigrations agent carried a huge stack of passports to the b...

Madness

›
I've been through a lot of border crossings, but I've never seen anything like the chaos that I witnessed today. About 5 hours into ...

Carnival

›
This is a quick post, but there are a couple more coming soon. I just wanted to show a photo of our last night in Costa Rica. We went to a ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

Pura Vida!

›
Alright. I'm sitting in a hotel room in Costa Rica, and I'm here with a friend of a friend's wedding party. We're staying ju...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Sandinistas vs. Contras vs. Pandemic Diarrhea

›
I'm an easy sell for any travel. Always. But I'm especially excited about tomorrow's trip. I'll be heading to Nicaragua wi...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Reality Bites

›
Ok, woah. A serious dose of reality kept me from posting about my return. I did, after all, miss two weeks of work, two weeks of class, and...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

Redemption

›
A very fortunate chain of events had us back at Sydney Olympic Stadium (aka ANZ Stadium), but we actually caught a game this time. We knew ...
Friday, September 05, 2008

Oh, that Sydney Football Stadium

›
I've outdone myself. Tim and I spent today rounding out the Sydney attraction package with two tower tours. They were both nice viewpoi...
Thursday, September 04, 2008

That's a liter?!

›
Well, the good news is that I made it to Sydney. Let's hear it for discount airlines. I booked the flight two days ago, The (bad? Well, ...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

What tunnels?

›
Melbourne's a great city, but I felt like leaving it for a day to see some of Australia's famous coastline. I picked the Mornington ...
Monday, September 01, 2008

Boomerangs, kangaroos, and women's dormitories

›
Must...fight...urge...to...open...with...G'day, mates. Alright, I'm sitting in an internet cafe after a day of walking through Melbo...
Sunday, August 31, 2008

The long road to recovery

›
The last couple of days in Fiji were marked by waves of celebration and recovery. Mostly recovery. The three of us walked around Lautoka on ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Couch hopping in the South Pacific

›
I've slept on a lot of couches over the last several years, but none of them were, well, in Fiji. Sam and I have been sharing bunk space...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Bula!

›
There's an old bluegrass song about the Big Rock Candy Mountain, where alcohol streams trickle down the rocks, and the jail bars are mad...