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Labor day a year ago, I was waking up at 4:30 AM and heading out onto the Nina Moose River with a rented canoe, heading toward Lake Agnes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This year on Labor Day? I’m writing blog posts in order to avoid doing readings for school. What a difference a [...]

Sep 6th, 2010 | Filed under Personal History, Self, Travel

As if I’ve ever made a list before. The list is kind of restricted to stuff I feel like I control well enough to make happen also. Just FWIW. The three-month, 15,000-mile road trip. Become functionally fluent in at least one more language. Spend at least a(nother) year living in a foreign country. Get five [...]

Sep 21st, 2008 | Filed under Self Promotion

Just FYI, there were a couple days of my Kauai vacation that looked (and felt) like this: Even better: it’s at Wal-Mart. Saw this pic again looking through my photos today. Made me feel slightly better about being, you know, not there. Similarly, any time I think about my Utah house, I try to remind [...]

Jan 20th, 2008 | Filed under Self Promotion, Travel

Given a choice, never take the red-eye again. Changing planes in HNL probably isn’t that bad a thing. Look at the directions for how to get to the hotel/condo you’re staying in before getting into the rental car. And check to see whether the rental car has a dome light before driving off. Because if [...]

Dec 9th, 2007 | Filed under Travel