Monday: Delayed flight, no on-board lunch, cab driver fiascos, bank card fiascos, Cheesecake Factory. Tuesday: Work, philly cheesesteak heaven, supermarket yields St. Francis Merlot under $20, philly cheesesteak repeat heaven. Wednesday: Work, shopping spree at Perimeter Mall, dining spree at Seasons 52. Thursday: Work, Stone Mountain excursion for Mexican food. Friday: Work, talking about the [...]
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so much for my leftist travel plans.
Aww, shucks. I knew we should’ve gotten hitched in Cuba when we had the chance. Leanne, you are a lucky bastard.
christmas photos are up.
Happy 2008 to all! The Flickr album containing all the Christmas pics from Winnipeg and Gimli is now complete. I started to shoot in RAW in December, which I am now a huge fan of, but it does mean that you have to manually generate a JPEG for each RAW image you want to post [...]
a gimli christmas.
Andy found this great webcam feed of Gimli a while back. Looks like we are going to have a really white Christmas! Kurt and I have been visiting his family in Winnipeg now for the past 5 Christmases. This year is the first time we’ll be spending the holidays at their new cottage in Gimli, [...]
notes from the road, part deux.
Friday, September 28, 2007: 2271km @ 10:12am Purchased a coffee-table book as our last souvenir: the California Directory of Fine Wineries from Ramekins. Loaded up the car for the drive north. Realized I left my green winter coat at Rob and Jen’s. Oops. 2274km @ 10:16am Kurt: “That sucks! I only have 3 days before [...]
gushing about matanzas creek.
It’s been a great but long day of touring Sonoma with Rob and Jen, so I’m going to focus this post on the highlight of our first wine tasting experience in California: Matanzas Creek Winery. [For a glimpse into the rest of our day's adventures, view the California photosets from my Flickr homepage or on [...]
notes from the road.
Disclaimer: There is delicate language and likely offensive topics in this travelogue to San Francisco. If you are our parents…nothing to see here. Move along… Friday, September 14, 2007: 0km @ 9:00am Luggage in trunk: check. Picnic blanket: check. Wine cooler, empty: check. Rosé wine book, travel guides, and roadmaps: check. Camera: check. Acoustic guitar [...]
hong kong travel diary: day 7.
Lunch was at Superstar Seafood Restaurant with Quiny, a high school friend I hadn’t seen in 10 years and who had been living in Hong Kong for the past few. Superstar is on the 10th floor of the Food Forum in Times Square. After a great lunch catching up on the times, I went boutique [...]
hong kong travel diary: day 6.
Breakfast of vegetarian dim sum along Electric Road. Essentially pointed at each item that looked good and indicated how many of each I wanted. Even with my greedy eyes, the price was well under $20 HKD. Even more bitter about my 2 $75 HKD breakfast buffets at the hotel. Didn’t realize it was vegetarian until [...]
hong kong travel diary: day 5.
Back in Hong Kong and ready for breakfast! Finally got up the nerve to try the little congee house across the street from my hotel. I was worried about the language barrier but something about me must have screamed tourist (the giant camera in hand, perhaps?). An English menu was plopped promptly down on my [...]
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