I semi-recently went to a class on carnivourous plants and have acquired a venus fly trap. Here are various notes on the topic ( Read more... )

The long-awaited chronicle of my week in Peru.

Day 1: Jan 17 - 18 - Day 1/2 - flight to Peru-I'm flying Avianca for the first time, with my trip to Cusco, Peru broken up into 3 legs spanning an entire day in transit. Not ideal, but so it goes. At least I'll get to see a couple of South American airports I've never been to before ( Read more... )

Took a delightful weekend trip to Seattle to visit a friend. Here are some of the highlights of what I did.

Saturday: -Delta Terminal in JFK is much nicer now - several Shake Shacks and a Blue Smoke Restaurant ( Read more... )

Tuesday: Off to Berlin
-Amazing how quickly time flies. J and I wake early to get a traditional English Breakfast at the upscale Wolseley. It's a pretty old building and I enjoyed the cafe crema I got ( Read more... )

Manchester & London - May 2015
Thursday evening -> Friday Morning: Flight from JFK to Manchester-Flight to Manchester from JFK on a budget airline just expanding to the US: Condor/Thomas Cook. I get insanely cheap one way fare and my return flight from Berlin is paid for in miles I've accumulated from traveling. So, a relatively cheap trip to and ( Read more... )

Will be heading to Boston & Chicago in the next 3 weeks. Anyone interested in meeting up?

A life is a universe ( Read more... )

Am currently holed up in a hotel room in Oslo, which is why I figured I'd type up my travel notes from my trip to Las Vegas last December. I'd been to Las Vegas before, and mostly went to see as many Cirque du Soleil shows as possible, so there isn't that much new ground to cover aside from shows and food. Here they are ( Read more... )

I will be making a few trips in the coming months!

1. April - I will be in Stockholm, Sweden, and Oslo, Norway for a few days apiece.

2. May - I will be in Manchester briefly, London less briefly, and then Berlin.

Let me know if you're in the area and would like to meet up!

Just finished watching the documentary Backstreet Boys: Show me what you're made of, which is less a documentary and more a very slickly produced and pretty advertisement for their 20th anniversary tour and album. Still, it was an enjoyable enough walk down nostalgia lane and showed some footage I've never seen before (which is saying something, ( Read more... )