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This past weekend Sonya and I went up to Saratoga Springs to meet up with some of my friends from college with the main event of the weekend being a trip to the horse race track. Here are a few A) highlights and B) things I learned from the trip (click on the image to [...]
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July 20th, 2009
Block Island
This past weekend we took my dad’s boat, Stampede, to Block Island to give Sonya’s mom one last site-seeing adventure before she heads back to Texas. We went on Sunday and the weather was perfect, so we ate lunch at Ballard’s on the beach, then did some sunbathing and body surfing in the waves, followed [...]
May 10th, 2009
Reporting live from Canterbury, England
Finally made it to Canterbury tonight after a long day of travel. I woke up at 4 AM this morning to catch a flight out of Boston at 9 AM. After a six hour flight (thankfully uneventful, although they did swap my shoes for explosives or something) and a two hour car ride, I made [...]
April 20th, 2009
Headed back to England
Today I found out that I’ll be heading back to Sandwich, England, for work the week of May 4th…just in case anyone cares! Update: Looks like I’ll be leaving May 10th and coming home on the 16th. Unfortunately, this means I’ll miss my first softball game of the season!
September 9th, 2008
Plantains and more plantains
In case you were wondering, so far on my stay in Puerto Rico I’ve had: Tostones (fried plantains)…twice Amarillos (sweet plantains)…twice Canoas de Amarillo (some creation that consists of a whole sweet plantain stuffed with meat and cheese) Plantain crusted chicken, with sweet plantain sauce And before I left, I had plantain chips at a [...]
April 16th, 2007
Anyone for a shot?
So this past week I’ve had a new roommate. One of the guys I work with has been over working in Ireland so he has been rooming with me in the apartment…and he has no car so therefore I am his chauffeur. Anyways though, I ended up taking him to Kinsale to see the Charles [...]
April 12th, 2007
ROME!, pt. 2
Just to backtrack a little bit…when I got to the hostel, the guy there gave me a map of the city. Between Saturday night and Sunday, I realized that I had pretty much covered the entire east half of the map. So naturally, I decided that Monday and Tuesday would be spent covering the West [...]
