So the next legs of my journey would take me to Fargo. Ryan (aka Rihan) is my friend/ middle-aughts traveling & concert-going companion who is finishing up school there, so I figure now would be the best time to pay him a visit. I always wished some of my friends would have visited me when I was in Graduate school, so that explains my motivation. ( Read more... )

For the first time since I started documenting my life on a bi-weekly basis, I've missed a self-imposed entry deadline. At least, that would be the case if that hadn't already happened back last December. I just didn't make a big deal of it then. But that entry went up the day after the deadline, where as this one is way late. So, what happened? ( Read more... )

The flight itself was super short, and we probably spent more time in the shuttle than on the flight too. Predictably, our hotel in Waikiki wasn't as nice as the one we left. Plus, we all had to share one room. My companions were also not used to sleeping in a large, noisy city. I was fine with it for the most part. I knew Honolulu had a large ( Read more... )

Day 4, Thursday ( Read more... )

While I wrote this mostly in real time while I was on the trip, I'm going to post it in two parts. Today will cover up through Wednesday, while the second will cover from Thursday onward. While I took over 1000 pictures, I'm not going to post any here, but if you'd like to see some, go to twitter and search #pkhawaii. Part 2 might have a video to ( Read more... )

Saturday ( Read more... )

To make the rest of this entry entirely pointless, Austin was a lot of fun.  I'm beginning to learn that I really enjoy big city life.  The trip went off pretty well, thought there were a few things that could have gone better, I am overall pleased with the exception to this truly epic weekend ( Read more... )

Something strange happened to me this week.  I was reading online how a movie theater that I loved and went to a lot in Kansas City was having a Scott Pilgrim theme night.  And it was at that point that I started to miss Kansas City.  I've been lucky in that I've found something to love in all the cities I've lived in over the past few years.  ( Read more... )

That was fast.  2012 is certainly going to be an interesting year for me.  I accepted a paid internship working on exhibits in a museum in Lubbok, Texas, so my next few weeks will be spent moving there.  Still, this doesn't feel like a victory because I haven't achieved my goal of getting a long term job.  I would rather it be something more ( Read more... )

Before coming to Kansas City, the only thing I knew about it was its BBQ.  Therefore, I decided that over the course of the summer, I would make it my quest to sample the best of Kansas City BBQ.  And so, this is the end result of that quest. I traveled all across this city and even across the state lines to try the best BBQ this city had to offer ( Read more... )