I’ve been going to Brazil since I was six months old–a fact to which my January 1986 Brazilian passport picture testified, through a couple renewals, until 1998. Though I was born (weeks before my time) in Lubbock, Texas, my mother was (and is) Brazilian. Through the magic of jus sanguinis, I too am Brazilian. This […]
In my introduction I neglected to mention the reason I started poking around with my old travelogues: I’m going to be writing a couple new ones. This summer from May 18 to June 2 I’ll be in on the way to, in, or coming back from Brazil. I’ll be visiting family, as I have many […]
This blog is part of a long-dormant effort to chronicle my travels. One day, in fantasyland, this will be updated with my travelogue from Spain in 2004 and at least a cursory overview of my adult traveling life (that’s Ottawa, Canada in May 2003; Spain, Portugal, and a dash of Paris in June 2004; and […]
This winter break I spent a little time between Christmas and the start of the new semester in Europe. I flew to Dublin and back with my friend Ryan, although we may not be friends after that much time together in US‘s aluminum cans. I’m editing this from one long itinerary post, so bear with […]
FR 1125 LGW-DUB 4 Jan 2035-2150 Although the UK immigration authorities had grilled me twice (and laid down two separate “leave to enter for six months†stamps within a page of each other), Ireland’s tired soul looked at the previous stamp and mumbled a bit. On this exit from Customs in Ireland I was not […]
Thanks to the automatic five trillion percent London markup, airfare from Paris to London proved to be no cheaper than taking a high speed train underwater. That almost makes sense coming from the domestic air market in the States, but looks odd in Europe. So I took the eurostar 9025 Paris Nord–London Waterloo 3 Jan […]
FR 22 DUB-BVA 30 Dec 0700-0925 I was greeted in the cornfields of Beauvais with the beginnings of a French blizzard–an unusual event which made the long line for coach tickets feel just a bit less friendly. I’m glad I brought gloves, coat, and ear protection. When I got to the stop in Paris the […]
US 828 PIT-PHL 28 Dec 1800-1910 US 98 PHL-LGW 2020-0825* BA 8082 LGW-DUB 29 Dec 1015-1140 In Dublin, I (almost accidentally) stayed with Ryan’s ridiculously hospitable friend Karen and family for the day (and night). They kept me primed with food and drink even when I was falling asleep on them. It was humbling.
This following is the first entry in my diary of my Summer 2004 Spanish Backpacking Shindig. The complete log is quite extensive and typed already in one big text file: I just need to find either time or tools to convert it into multiple posts of bloggy goodness.
Following are my notes from attending BSDCan 2004 in Ottawa, Canada. As you can see I wasn’t very good at taking notes then. “Roomy” exit seat flight from Charleston pretty uneventful. Detroit was more greeen (approaching from that side) than I had expected. Repaired my boarding pass (too small) and have been scoping out the […]
