Archives for the 'travel' Category
Blue-Ringed Octopus
My sister is a TA for a Carleton study abroad program in Australia right now, and she just clued me in to their program blog. It’s full of gorgeous underwater pictures, like the blue-ringed octopus:
Or, as I like to call it, the blue-ringed octopus of death. It uses a type of neurotoxin called […]
Melbourne, Distilled
When I was studying abroad in Melb’n I remember walking down Lonsdale street once when a passing, slightly drunk-looking Melburnian greeted with me an effusive, “G’day mate.” I wanly said, “Hi,” and he confidently replied, “Yeah, not bad,” as he strode past me. That experience has always seemed uniquely Australian to me, and […]
List of Places Slept, 2007
At the end of every year I publish a list of all the places I spent at least one night in during that year. Here’s the list for 2007. The ones marked with asterisks are places where I spent multiple, non-consecutive nights. Here’s the 2006 list and the 2005 list.
*Brooklyn, NY
*Logan, UT (Jan, […]
Volubilis, Roman Ruins outside Meknes, Morocco
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I went on a 5-day trip to Morocco this week. I flew from JFK to Casablanca with a layover in Paris. I spent two days each in Fes and Meknes, […]
