Archive for the ‘From the road…’ Category

Man-Powerin' Across Michigan Recap

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 ...

Munich/Füssen, Day 4 (March 27th, 2009)

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 ...

Munich: Day 3 (March 26, 2009)

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 ...

Munich: Day 2 (March 25, 2009)

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 ...

Munich: Day 1 (March 24, 2009)

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 ...

Once You Go Animal Style…

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 ...

Pictures Galore

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!

The March of the Penguins

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 ...

Northwest Passage, Pt. 2

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.

Northwest Passage

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 ...