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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Man-Powerin' Across Michigan was a success! My bike ride started in Chicago at around 10:30AM on Friday, May 7 and finished up in downtown Detroit at roughly 4:30PM on Sunday, May 9. As with just about any ride of this magnitude, there were some difficulties along the way. I'll talk ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Day 4 began in a bit of a rush. We planned to take a ~2 hour train ride down to Füssen near the German/Austrian border to check out Neuschwanstein Castle and managed to stick to that plan, but were a bit sluggish after the previous night's festivities. As such, Karol ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Day 3 began with a Third Reich tour that kicked off near the Rathaus. It was led by a British guy who had moved to Munich a year earlier and (appropriately) knew a lot about the Third Reich.
The tour's first stop was next to the former Sterneckerbraukeller where Adolf Hitler ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Day 2 began with the sounds of construction. Though I admit we slept in later than we probably should have (almost noon), adjusting to a new time zone is even harder when someone is pounding nails right outside your door. By now, most everyone else in our 8-bed room had ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
The next several posts are a daily account of my recent trip to Germany with my friends Karol and Adam. The trip spanned nine days (March 24 - April 1), and in those nine days we visited Munich, Füssen (day-trip), and Berlin. These posts are an elaboration of the notes ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Last week before leaving for San Francisco, I explained to Katie that there was really only one thing that we absolutely had to do before I would allow us to come back home: eat at In-N-Out Burger.
In-N-Out Burger is a fast food chain spread throughout California, Nevada, and Arizona. I ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Freshly added to my gallery are the pictures from my trip to Seattle earlier this month. Thanks to Damon's hyperactive trigger finger, there are 280-something of them. Yes!
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
I've been out in Redwood Shores, CA at Oracle's campus for the past few days. On my way in, immediately after turning off the main road and onto "Oracle Pkwy.", I saw this sign:
Stolen from Flickr, since I forgot to pack my camera.
From the look of it, Tux has been ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
I finally got around to posting the rest of my photos from my recent Seattle/Vancouver trip. Some great scenery, good times, and plenty of drinks.
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
Tomorrow morning I leave for a weekend in Seattle/Vancouver with D-Ca$h. The only plans that I know of at this point are to get in his rental (a Rolls, perhaps?) and jet up to Vancouver for Friday night, and then come back to Seattle on Saturday to catch some of ...
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