Louise intrigues me. She’s been places I (shamefully) didn’t know even existed. The Land of Oz? She’s probably been there and broken bread with the Man Behind the Curtain; she’s just that cool. So, I dropped her an email to see if she would be willing to share some of her experiences in East Timor.
For [...]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | stories | No Comments
I feel like I’m grounded. Now that I’m back working a full-time shtick, I’m slowly and painstakingly accruing PTO (which is just a simple way of saying, your sick time and your vacation time is the same darn thing) to blow on a trip to Prague in the fall. It’s freaking torture. Spending those many [...]
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 | general | No Comments
(Video courtesy of Jen, from our 2006 Costa Rica trip. As promised!)
Sunday, April 27, 2008 | general | No Comments
For a while, I was just too busy to go blog-hoppin’ like I used to. My lunch hour is pretty freakin’ precious and usually I spend it outside, in the sun, reading. But the other day, I was doing some googling and found this site.
France, China, Vietnam, Benin - these people are going everywhere I’m [...]
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | general | No Comments
It’s raining in Dallas. It does that a lot, I’ve discovered. For every sunny day, we get three or four that drain you of the will to live. Know what I do when I should be going out for my lunch-time walk? I plan imaginary get-aways
Brazil is top on my imagination vacation list, because [...]
Thursday, April 17, 2008 | general | No Comments
Before last week, I didn’t even know such a place existed. Okay, maybe I did (my junior high geography teacher was on the ball) but I didn’t really know. And then Louise mentioned all the great uses for dental floss while traveling in East Timor. And then, not two days later, I found this news [...]
Monday, April 14, 2008 | geography lessons | No Comments
I had no idea. None. Dental floss has about a thousand uses for the backpackin’, hostel-stayin’, clever-like-MacGyver traveler. To save you a scroll through the comments, here are a few of the most ingenious ones.
I’ve used it as a clothes line. Seriously. - Anna
Plain floss is excellent for things like cutting cheese. - Shanna
Joining my [...]
Friday, April 11, 2008 | travel tips | No Comments
My new neighbors really like each other. You know, like that. You can hear their, um, liking through the walls in three the rooms in my apartment. They are nothing if not enthusiastic. So, the other night when it became clear that I wasn’t going to actually fall asleep while they were going at it, [...]
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | advice | 2 Comments
Anyone know a simple way to get video footage off my camera and onto my blog? I have some fun clips from Costa Rica, Scotland and Barcelona that I would love to get up here. In fact, I thought I had them ready to go this morning, but it turns out, I am not as [...]
Monday, April 7, 2008 | general | No Comments
Okay, one last favorite from the ‘Embarrassing Travel’ submissions. For me, there is nothing as uncomfortable as running into a language barrier while traveling. And because of pride, and rather than risk injury to my self esteem, I clam up. You know, instead of saying a whole bunch of wrong words and looking like… a [...]
Thursday, April 3, 2008 | stories | No Comments
