Sat, Apr 21, 2012 – 10:54
Patrick and I went down to Letchworth Park on Friday afternoon. It was summer weather, warm and sunny with a lovely breeze. Unfortunately, after driving an hour and being out in the sun with Patrick, I was too busy enjoying the afternoon and the walk to bother checking the settings on my camera – or [...]
Sat, Apr 14, 2012 – 09:40
Patrick is here for most of April, and since there’s not much for him to do while I’m at work other than hang around the house and go for walks, I took a half day on Friday and we drove up to Niagara Falls for the afternoon. The weather was sunny and cool and we [...]
Sun, Dec 11, 2011 – 20:34
I went up to New Hampshire over the weekend to visit my grandparents with my dad. We had a good time with them. My grandfather did some wandering though the forest with us, and we kept my grandmother company in her nice chair by the fireplace. It was quite a nice visit. They have a [...]
Sat, Jun 25, 2011 – 09:39
I absolutely love the Scandinavian landscape – especially those archipelagoes full of tiny, rocky, evergreen-covered islands. Even before I was a fan of Myst, I thought they were pretty much the most beautiful, mysterious, inspiring places ever. When I lived in Sweden, there was an old dry river valley behind my family’s apartment, with huge [...]
Mon, May 16, 2011 – 10:08
Continuing the post from last time about things that have struck me since being back in the US… I was finally starting to get used to German grocery stores when I left, so now I miss the routine I was falling into. I’ve even gotten into the habit going to the store every other day [...]
Sat, May 14, 2011 – 08:06
Strangely, the culture shock coming back from Cologne wasn’t as bad as when I came back from Dessau. I guess this time I knew what to expect from Americans vs Germans – how the two countries would be different. There are things I miss from Germany, but this time, I already had an idea what [...]
Wed, Apr 13, 2011 – 07:39
On Sunday of the Florence trip, I walked in to town from the youth hostel and went to the Galleria dell’Accademia to see the David sculpture. The wait wasn’t as long as I had expected, but the museum was disappointingly devoid of the quantity of famous art in other museums. The plaster original of “Rape [...]
Saturday was Siena at the suggestion of people at work. At breakfast, I talked with a German engineering student who was making a tour of Europe. He was startlingly happy to be able to speak German with somebody, I guess he was kind of starved for it after being in Italy. After breakfast I packed up and [...]
Quick post: I’m back at my parents’ in Illinois, jet lagged and disoriented from 20+ hours of travel. I have a bunch of half-written blog posts that I need to sort out before I can post them (not to mention IRL things like doing my taxes, catching up on my health checkups, and looking for [...]
Thu, Mar 31, 2011 – 17:51
Friday I took my time in getting up, seeing as I’d had so much extra time the day before. I took the bus into town to the Palazzo Pitti and its gardens, and spent the morning wandering around. Most pictures when I get a chance to go through what I took, but in the meantime here [...]
