My muscles are flexed 99.9 percent of the time, probably even while I sleep. I get antsy when I wait. I don’t walk up stairs, I run, for no reason. I walk as if I’m being chased, as if what I’ve got to do must be so important. It’s not. I respond without thinking sometimes [...]
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
When you travel with an architect you may find yourself on an occasional architecture tour, like the time Mike and I visited the Getty Center. Budapest for us was no different. Mike and I don’t often opt for guided tours as we like to take our time exploring a place on our own, but if we see an [...]
When I travel I tend to organize my trips according to how I’ll blog them. I bucket the sites, attractions and restaurants into themes and I craft each post in my head as I go. Mike knows this about me and half way through our trip he asked if I had thought about how I [...]
Not that I’ve blogged in a while…. But in a week I hope to have a lot more content to work with. Hope you’re all having lovely weeks!
Flying through the streets of San Salvador on a bus – that was once used to take U.S. children to school – you’ll most certainly be approached by someone trying to sell you something, anything. When I traveled to El Salvador back in December of 2008, just one time, I decided to make a purchase… [...]
I made it seem like I was done posting about our summer road trip through Canada with that last one, didn’t I? Well, sorry about that. As I mentioned, we built the latter part of our travels around going on a whale watch in the Bay of Fundy and logistically, that brought us to beautiful [...]
St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick was our half way point between Halifax and Boston. We stopped here on our way home because it seemed like an ideal spot to catch a whale watch in the Bay of Fundy. In our short time here, St. Andrew’s proved to be much more than a half way point or [...]
I’ve been trying to come up with an intro for this post whilst getting distracted by my Otis Redding Pandora station and fidgeting with the millions of tabs open in Firefox right now. I’m going to have to just cut to the chase already. A lot of emails piled up in my inbox while I [...]
