Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Category: Travel & Places
Posts about traveling, and specific locations I visit or have or currently live in.
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My Favorite Street Names in Pittsburgh
Read More: My Favorite Street Names in Pittsburgh* Woolslayer Way* One Wild Place* Asterisk* Way* Mimosa Way* Day Way* Rodi Road
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False Shutter
Read More: False Shutter(An excerpt from some journal entries in Spain. 4/5/2006) They asked me to take their photo. I don’t know why. They are complete strangers on the street. The first words they said to me: <<¡Un Foto!>> They would never see it. Why do they want me to have a record of them of their stupidity…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 25-27] Recife. The Pretty. Bon Voyage
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 25-27] Recife. The Pretty. Bon VoyageI’m writing this nearly a month from the first day we arrived in Recife. It turns out that re-adjusting to life in the States is not only time consuming, but welcomes my attention more than reflecting on the trip. After dropping off our rental car (about a 45 minute procedure) we grabbed a cab to…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 23-25] Porto de Galinhas
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 23-25] Porto de GalinhasTravel Getting to Porto de Galinhas was going to be a bit challenging. Unlike Foz de Iguaçu and Iguazu, which were very small towns and easily navigable, Porto de Galinhas is located over an hour south of Recife. We had my smartphone with some offline maps, but no navigation. Renting a car in Brazil may…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Sidenote] Bathroom Doors, Teflon Tape, and Slamming Car Doors
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Sidenote] Bathroom Doors, Teflon Tape, and Slamming Car DoorsDoors Alex and I couldn’t help but notice for the first two weeks that not a single one of the bathroom doors in all of our accommodations worked without issue. Either the door would get stuck once you closed it and you’d have to push all your body weight to open it. Or the door…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 18-20] São Paulo – Big Tokyo of South America
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 18-20] São Paulo – Big Tokyo of South AmericaTravel This time, our flight was on a real Gol flight. The plane was substantially cleaner and newer feeling, with LED mood lighting, grey seats instead of vomit-green, and … magazines in the seat backs! What luxuries. We descended over São Paulo, South America’s largest city by population, and I was amazed at how vast…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 17-18] Cataratas de Iguaçu
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 17-18] Cataratas de IguaçuTravel Traveling to Iguaçu was simple, but a bit of an experience. It was our first domestic flight in Brazil. We booked all of our travel on Gol airlines – a decent looking discount airline with a pretty new fleet and an orange color scheme. They seem to be relatively successful (unlike Pluna) and are…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Day 13-16] Rio de Janeiro
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Day 13-16] Rio de JaneiroTravel Travel to Rio de Janeiro was done with pretty much no problems. LAN was a pretty decent no-frills airline. They had the same Boeing model that we flew on AA, but it was much nicer inside. The flight in was interesting – we had to circle around the city a few times before landing.…
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 10-11] Montevideo. North Eastern Block.
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Days 10-11] Montevideo. North Eastern Block.Travel From Colonia, Montevideo is best reached by bus. The bus line was quite nice – featuring comfortable seats and even had wi-fi on board that had a better connection than our Bed & Breakfast. The ride is scheduled to be about 2.5 hours. I was expecting this would be a fairly direct route, but…