A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
Mein gott – two posts in a day?
It’s ’bout that time… my daily routine (the one that sorta makes it difficult to write on account of every day looking kinda like the day that came before) is starting to break up a bit. Now I spend afternoons pouring over travel sites, looking for stuff to [...]
Teaching. It’s… not me. I’ve thought about it for a bit – since I got here, really – and I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that I’ve got a lot of traits and skills that might make me like a teacher, but that’s not exactly my thing. My enthusiasm for the things here that [...]
I leave for Wuhan in a couple hours – Victor will be swinging by my place at 6:30 to collect me, then we’ll be hustling off via train. I’m not sure where in Wuhan we’re going, or what I’ll be doing, or how I’ll be doing it – I’m sorta just going along for the [...]
So I’ve moved into the position where counting down the hours until I move into my apartment is not an unwieldy, triple-digit task, but actually somewhere under 36 hours. Of course, moving closer and closer to moving-in time over the last couple of weeks has put me into that frustrated, impatience funk, making the necessities [...]
(Written at 10:18 PM, July 18th)
I really need to apologize to everyone. Or, maybe I don’t, but I will anyways. Floating from one uncomfortable station to the next to finally land in the mother of all uncomfortable circumstances, I let myself fall into a self pitying, naval gazing, despair mode wherein all I could do [...]
Xuzhou Travel Journal 1: Dalian Airport
(Originally written between 6 and 7 PM, Dalian, yesterday)
So I get a couple days reprieve in Xuzhou, as I’ve mentioned before. It’s about 6 PM now, a small child just waved at me, and the flight leaves at 8:40. The sound of the airport (and my fatigue) is quite distracting. [...]
So far, this leg of my journey has been pretty godawful. It’s been a graceful snowball of small things (and one gigantic thing) into a literal mess that now leaves me sitting in the departures terminal (not behind security) at Incheon International at 8:37 PM until 6 AM tomorrow morning, when they’ll let me check [...]
Today:
Backpacking!
Soon (Sunday at the soonest, I think):
Zoo and Backpacking pictures! Random Miscellany!
Before I get around to writing about the Anchorage Zoo, I need to share with you all the events of the last five hours.
Shortly after breakfast, around 11 or so, I started the process that would ultimately consolidate the bulk of my federal loans into a single, comprehensive payment under the Department of Education – [...]
We’re a bit busy packing and preparing for our RV trip up to Denali, so I can’t really make too much of a post (though I do have some pictures from my trip to the Zoo yesterday – I’ve got connections to let me see the wolves up close). However, I did more or less [...]