We finally made it to Phuket. We arrived with a plane load of Estonian tourists but my dad was still able to pick us out of the crowd at the airport and whisked us away in the Toyota “Soluna” he had rented to the place my parents are staying.
The island is as pretty as ever, [...]
There is no way to really describe it here. We’ve been in the city just over a day now and we’ve already done most of what we’ve come here to do…and more.
I guess the most amazing thing has to be the washroom at our hotel. I’m not even really sure I can properly explain it [...]
We’re in the middle of a layover in Seattle, living it up in an Alaskan Airlines lounge. It was a hellishly early flight and now it’s 9am Seattle time and we’re having free beers while everyone else makes business calls and drinks OJ.
Hey; it’s noon somewhere, right?
Going to bed early before a trip never works. Despite a list I have been steadily ticking the boxes off of for five weeks now, there were still some last minute things to get done.
Mike and I had our favorite pizza tonight from Tony’s, and did some last minute packing. I bought travel insurance (this [...]
The last few weeks I’ve had to do a few early morning shifts. 6am early, to update the newspaper’s website. It’s a quiet time, as it’s just me and the police scanner.
I always get a thrill out of that thing. Everyone, especially the cop reporters, have long grown weary of it, and only listen for [...]
I bought a new camera when I was in Minnesota (CANADIAN DOLLAR POWER!) and I really really meant to start doing daily updates, but it hasn’t happened that way.
Instead, here is a round up of all the singular posts I had planned on making the last week or so.
For my birthday I got a few [...]