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* Woolslayer Way* One Wild Place* Asterisk* Way* Mimosa Way* Day Way* Rodi Road
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False Shutter
Read More(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 […]
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 25-27] Recife. The Pretty. Bon Voyage
Read MoreI’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 […]
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 23-25] Porto de Galinhas
Read MoreTravel 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 […]
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Sabbatical 2012 [Sidenote] Bathroom Doors, Teflon Tape, and Slamming Car Doors
Read MoreDoors 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 […]
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 18-20] São Paulo – Big Tokyo of South America
Read MoreTravel 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, […]
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 17-18] Cataratas de Iguaçu
Read MoreTravel 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 […]
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Sabbatical 2012 [Day 13-16] Rio de Janeiro
Read MoreTravel 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 […]
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Sabbatical 2012 [Days 10-11] Montevideo. North Eastern Block.
Read MoreTravel 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 […]