September 2008
13 posts
“From Oakland to Sactown
The Bay Area and back down
Cali is where they put they...”
– Tupac Shakur
Surprise! I'm Back!
I said earlier that I had more to say about my trip to London, and here it is: Their immigration officers totally intimidated me out of overstaying my visa so I decided instead to cut my stay in Europe short.
Eh, blahh, there’s a lot of legal details you probably don’t want to hear, but basically, if you’re not a student you can’t get a visa for more than 90 days in Spain....
“To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a...”
– Chinese proverb
Granada and Madrid →
London →
Pals and Figueres →
August 2008
9 posts
I miss America!
Tarragona and Garrotxa Album Link →
“One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Czechyt Album II →
Me: Run, Stop, AHHH, Flash!
Hmmm, so for Prague I thought I’d describe a lot more but it would just make you more jealous (don’t worry, you can get here some day!). Instead, I’ll focus on the really weird last two days of my trip, one of which was mostly not in Prague.
First, above I’ve got more pictures of the Sedlec Ossuary in the album link. Isn’t that place incredible? It definitely belongs...
July 2008
18 posts
Czechyt Album I →
Prague! Prague! God, this trip is going to require a few entries.
Never in my life have I felt like I was completely surrounded by such a strange, foreign and fantastical world. I saw and did so many wonderful and crazy things that my two and a half day trip seemed like some long legendary journey. Ahh, so corny but true. I wandered every beautiful street saying “I DARE any other city in...
Too Much To Say
Okay, this weekend’s trip to Prague included:
Quite possibly the most beautiful city on earth * Secret Garden * Mochi Worship * Skeleton Art * Great meals, Pilzner and Moravian wine * Frustration with inability to fully capture Praga’s beauty with my camera * Trains—So Many Trains * My Hero: The Lonely Planet Guide or Heroes: Ray and Ro for the guide—thank you! * I have to...
Small Town Catalonia Album Link →
Greek and Roman Ruins of Empuries Album Link →
First Taste of Barcelona (and more to come) →
“Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.”
Buggers
I have to vent about my biggest gripe here so far: friggin tiger mosquitoes!
I just realized they’re the reason I’ve felt kind of weird and sleepy and swollen for the last two weeks. Last week I noticed my ankle and hands felt oddly plump and at first I was like, “Damn olive oil.” But it wasn’t until I noticed 3-inch wide hives on the back of my leg that I knew was...
June 2008
11 posts
My New Employer →
Ursula, the lady that hired me in Spain, runs this Catalan travel agency. The tours and travel planning options are awesome.
Blog experimentations
Oh no, I’ve got my own blog! I think I’m gonna keep this pretty simple—pictures that say a thousand words, or pictures supplemented by text if the things they say don’t add up to a thousand words exactly.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain