Today I found my missing pictures from my Balkans trip, which makes me incredibly happy. So I was browsing through them, and was surprised to find that almost all my Europe-related bitterness has evaporated. Time (almost a year) has healed that wound. When looking at pictures I no longer rail a litany of invectives in my head, but instead think "Aw ( Read more... )

My dad rides his motorcycle a lot in the summer. My dad likes participating in contests/competitions. So Dad does a lot of motorcycle contests, the kind where you have to visit certain places and then you get entered in a drawing for a prize. His latest one was the Talk Like A Pirate contest, which meant he drove around New England taking pictures ( Read more... )

Well I'm off. I'll hit Budapest for 5 days, maybe take a day trip to a smaller town from there, and then go to Spis and Strecno castles in Slovakia. Then home for a few days to wash my clothes and see Dark Knight and do some business license stuff, and then I'm off to Croatia. I'll try to get to an internet cafe occasionally to let everyone know I' ( Read more... )

So I've been trying to time my window-openness to allow the least possible amount of bugs in. Why nowhere in the world other than the US has screens, I do not know. Anyways, I've been fairly successful, but last night I accidentally let in a big white moth. It was quite pretty actually, so I named it Kitten (big sloppy kiss to anyone who gets the ( Read more... )

( In which Rachel can't decide where to go. )

Today we went to Dresden to file for our visas, which is my 19th country! I didn't get a passport stamp though. :( There's not even a border. Sigh. But it was very pretty so I'm posting pics! Before I post pics of Prague! Cause...I'm weird. I don't know. I'm not happy with my Prague pics. But most of these are dec, aside from the lame gray sky ( Read more... )

I'm home, oh joy, I missed my apartment. Didn't really miss Prague, just the apartment. I start teaching in earnest next week, though I still don't have a full load of classes because the organizers are sick, grr. I start Czech lessons next week too, funfun. Not really, and dear lord could there be a more useless language to put on my resume, but I ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas everyone! Yeah, I'm really late, I know, and hideously behind on all forms of communication. Helen's doesn't have internet (though her computer has been resurrected, yay!) and her city (Warrington) has no internet cafes aside from $10/hr wireless at Starbucks. Dammit Starbucks, even when you're in another country you make me hate ( Read more... )

Well, I think anyone that cares if I'm alive has talked to me in some fashion, so really that was never in question. But it feels weird to not have updated for this long. I've just been working and trying to get stuff done before I leave. I was kinda spoiled before - on SAS everything was taken care of for me, and for Western Europe I just...left. ( Read more... )

I'm looking up stuff on the Moleskine city notebooks, specifically Prague of course. http://www.moleskines.com/klcn001-pr.htmlRead more... )