Posts Tagged travel
After a long weekend of airport waiting, flying, and shooting/editing photos until the wee hours of the morning, and attempting to catch up with lots and lots and lots of people I hadn’t seen in nine months, all I wanted to do was nothing. And what better place to do nothing than New Bern, NC? [...]
The primary reason I came back to Raleigh so soon, other than to catch up with old friends by wandering the streets of my hometown neighborhood (as I accomplished in my last post), was a wedding. My close friends Bill and Jessica are getting married. I met Bill while packing a giant van full of [...]
Greetings from North Carolina. I write to you as I wait patiently for 4:30 AM, the time I should awake and begin preparing to head to the airport. I have just finished up a week in my glorious home state. I arrived at approximately 9:49 AM Thursday morning. I had expected ample sleeping time on [...]
Hello all! This has been a very productive week for me so far. I have some important updates to share with all of you. I will explain further below. But first, here some photos from the past week’s adventures: A few days ago, I went over to help friend Mark work on his particularly large [...]
Stories + photos from my most recent trip to San Francisco. Kate and I head out bright and early to catch out 6 a.m. flight to Houston, TX. I have no recollection of it, as I passed out immediately once I was seated on the plane. Apparently free breakfast was offered to me. I had [...]
So I started this habit of jumping recently. I suppose it happened after having the epiphany that I have a lot of good photos of things that thousands of other people have also taken good photos of. The sudden feeling that my photos lacked any sort of novelty led me to the decision to begin [...]
On the way back into town to finish up the last of our San Fran projects before plane boarding time. Project #1: go to Land’s End. It’s a strange process getting out here. You go to the golf course behind the Legion of Honor, wander until you find a dirt road blocked off by a [...]
We head northward to find Calistoga, a tiny town nestled within the Sonoma Valley. Out mapquest directions don’t seem to suffice, so we decide to rely on the navigation service on my phone. We end up on Petrified Forest Road, winding at about five mph to keep from driving off the side of the mountain. [...]
[March 2009] Day four: drive everywhere we possibly can. Vista point jump. Stop 2: Some amazing beach. Can’t remember the name, but I remember that it bore some sort of phonetic resemblance to pinot grigio. So we started hiking. Random Pacific Ocean cliffside jump. Even higher more dangerous Pacific Ocean cliffside jump. I was examining [...]
Day four of NYC. Possibly one of the best days of my life. Mikey (new friend who I met at Arrowbar last night) invited me to brunch with his friends, as well as George and Larry, so around noon I headed down to the subway to catch a train to Williamsburg, only a couple of [...]
Day 3 was long and began much like the last… tasty morning lemonades as the local coffee/video store and wandering around the desolate warehouse wasteland. I had the privilege of watching a very strange dispute between a barista and what appeared to be his friend/ladyfriend/some chick outside of the shop… something along the lines of [...]
Erika and I get the day started early by my standards. I was painfully exhausted and would have loved to sleep through the afternoon, but Erika keeps me in line and makes me be productive. First stop was a coffee shop not far from Hannah’s place… a half-coffee-shop/half-video-store actually. Full of pretentious NY hipsters. Best [...]
Hey folks. I am writing to you from a charging kiosk in the Atlanta airport. It’s 6:38 a.m. I just ate half of a disgusting overpriced airport breakfast, a nice little reminder that vacation time is over. I have an hour and a half before my second flight leaves, so I thought I’d divulge everything [...]
So I think I’ve been here long enough to make some retrospective observations. At this point I’ve roughly categorized my trip into three segments – the first being a giant onslaught of people and neighborhoods, when I saw a million new things a day and personally met 30-some people within the first few days…. Second [...]
I feel like cramming so much ridiculous adventure into such a short period of time is really messing with my head. Everything is starting to mesh together, and I’m having trouble remembering what happened yesterday vs. last week. I’m hoping things will come back to me as I write. So yesterday, I awoke at noon [...]
I’ll preface this with an apology for the fact that my emails keep getting longer and longer. I don’t mean to do it… I just keep getting caught up in more and more random things to write stories about. So begins day one of week two. I woke up just in time to meet Dakota [...]
I feel like a lot has happened in the past 24 hours. Especially considering I woke up close to 1:00 today (yeah, that’s 4:00 Raleigh time). It’s all kind of a blur at this point (from sheer quantity of activity, not intoxication), but I’ll try and piece it all back together. Last night was fun. [...]
Hello! This is the last bit of writing from the west coast. I rececntly just got back from rummaging around the bars and pubs in downtown Vancouver. Our trip to Canadia almost did not happen, since Julian left his birth certificate on his microwave last week, lost it, and forgot to search for it until [...]
