The past seven days have been spent in the Mongolian desert, south of Ulaan-baatar. The journey was beautiful, exciting, lonely and thoughtful. I jotted a few hurried notes each night, except for the last few, since I was feeling quite ill. Below I have transcribed my journal from the road. Please excuse all bad grammar, hyperboles, long drawn-out ( Read more... )

Day number one: After arriving in China and meeting Gene's friends, Adam and Claire, we all went to Tianamen Square to see it after dark, and ran into a very nice toothless man who tried continually to sell us a tourist book of postcards or a Mao book of quotations. Adam tried nicely to explain to the guy that Mao killed 70 million Chinese, but the ( Read more... )

I hit the ground in weird, busy Beijing on Monday and now am about to leave on Wednesday making it possibly the shortest stay in China in history. But that's okay, the big city is a bit much for me to handle. The 12 hour flight from Canada was grueling of course, but I slept through most of it. That night we had good Sechuan food, and I found my ( Read more... )

wow... i leave for siberia in 3 days!! that's insane. i have so much left to do and not enough time to do it. added to the general stress of leaving for a month long trip in foreign countries (including sketchy visa companies who finally are releasing my passport from its hostage situation and sending it back to me today) is the stress of getting ( Read more... )

a week and a half before i leave this puny country and head for bigger and better countries! at least bigger. China, Mongolia, Russia and the diminutive Belarus. oh, and don't forget my one-night-only layover in Prague, the coolest city ever. i have way too much to do before i go, as always. and i will miss my house, my life and my puppy dog and ( Read more... )

This past weekend I went canoe camping on an island with some Dartmouth folks and Sarah. I reckon it was good practice for the kayak camping trip I have planned for this weekend, which will be somewhat more strenuous. Hanover was beautiful, the Connecticut river was cold and refreshing and the Dartmouth canoe rentals weren't too expensive. Good ( Read more... )

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Animals in My House
Portsmouth Night Out
Heather's VisitI have more from Taylor's wedding, caves with my sister, Mom's visit to Boston... They'll make it up there eventually. And I'm going camping for the next two weekends in a row, so I'll have a few pictures ( Read more... )

I have a lot to cover, so I'll have to blog in several installations over the next few days! Including: my trip to see Sarah and my sister in Maryland (including the bonus side story of the bewildering starbucks experience), my new dog, my trip to Rochester NY for the 4th of July, my new roommate, my big Antarctica trip for work coming up in a few ( Read more... )

i know, i know. i suck at keeping this updated (sorry sarah!) but i've been extremely busy lately. no really. more than usual. i've gone on a lot of trips, learned to ride a motorcycle (and got my license!!) and adopted a new dog. pictures are way overdue, it's true. just hold your horses, they're coming soon. oh, and still have to write about my " ( Read more... )

Currently in Aspen, at a super informal, but enlightening space physics conference. More about that in a minute ( Read more... )