I left the Turk Museum tired, but in a great mood. It was Friday night, and the first major night of the Columbus Couch Crash. For those of you who aren't familiar, a couch crash is an event that has grown in popularity over the last few years on Read More »
The 2012 Madison Couch Crash is coming July 26-29. Here's the first in a series of promotional videos I made for the couch crash.
A Couch Crash is a CouchSurfing event in which we invite people from around the world to partake in a weekend of festivities in our city. This video highlights some of… Read More »
After a long drive to Dayton, OH, I rang Dr. Turk's doorbell. The last time I saw him was on a road trip to Florida with my parents in 2006. We had met a few months earlier in Antarctica when he saw my nice camera and asked if he could have some of my photos.… Read More »
An entire species went extinct yesterday. Lonesome George was the last known Pinta Island tortoise, one of eleven remaining Galapagos Island tortoise species. Until his discovery about forty years ago, scientists thought his species was already extinct. But then someone found George walking by himself on Pinta Island and brought him to the Charles Darwin… Read More »
On Memorial Day weekend, I joined the Hoofer Outing Club for their annual whitewater kayaking trip. About twenty of us drove to the northwoods, where the club owns several acres of rustic land near Lakewood known as Hooferland.
Our whole group went to the Pike river, the border with… Read More »
It's hard to believe with last weekend's 80-degree weather in Wisconsin, but today is the first day of spring.
Two weekends ago when it hit 55 degrees for the first time this year, I went with the local mountaineering club to nearby Devil's Lake for some rock climbing. For most of us, it was our… Read More »
Last weekend was the Duluth CouchSurfing invasion. CouchSurfing is a great way to connect with other travelers in your city and around the world. About thirty-five of us made it all the way up to Duluth, Minnesota for a chilly February weekend. Madison has had such a mild winter, it was a… Read More »
I know it's been a very long time, but I finally got this blog up and running again. Look for posts in the coming months about what I've been up to, as well as lots of travel advice. And before you ask, I don't have any big trips planned, but stay tuned.
April 19, 2008
Day 934
The final day of my trip had arrived. After a long night without much sleep, I couldn't keep my eyes open on the hour-long bus ride to the airport in Cancun. Nothing of any significance happened on my two flights home. People complained about having to wait an hour… Read More »
April 15-18, 2008
Day 930-933
Today I entered Mexico for the first time in ten years. The bus went from the Belizean border up the Caribbean coast to Playa del Carmen, one of those all-inclusive American resort towns. Seventy-five percent of people on the beach were pasty and fat. They looked like in the… Read More »
