The Elizabeth (yes, she is preceded by an article) has been here since Monday, and it has been good but there's really not much to report. It's really weird how not weird it is to have her here; it's kind of like my normal Scottish life, just with more pictures and more tourist attractions ( Read more... )

The final installment:

( Days Three and Four: Mazes and Ruins and The Winding Road Home )

[It's 17 August 2006, and high time I wrote about adventures that happened four months ago. So, FINALLY (backdated for continuity if nothing else):

( Day Two: Moving to the Country or A Return to Their Ancestral Homeland )

[Okay, so here, over a week later, is the first part of my road trip to Yorkshire. I've decided to split it up because (1)It's getting quite long, and (2)I'm growing rapidly bored/tired ( Read more... )

Today, I returned from a most fantastic road trip the Scottish borders and the Yorkshire Dales. I'm not sure what the logic behind our choice of destination was other than its relative obscurity, the fact that it was within driving distance (although, I suppose, arguably, you could say the same thing about France), and that it catered to our ( Read more... )

I am glad that I know the word dodgy because nothing else can adequately describe the Iceland Air experience. They had CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS on the overhead storage compartments, and they piped Christmas Muzak through the plane's sound system. They didn't even have movies in the backs of the seats -- they played episodes of Everybody Loves ( Read more... )

Last week, I was in Florida with the cousins and the grandparents. The highlight of this expedition was my two hour long trip to Miami to see the following sculpture by Claes Oldenburg:


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One year ago, at this exact moment, i was on my way to the airport to go to Germany -- squished in the back of Elizabeth's forrester with her, my mom, and so much luggage. It's so strange to think that it's been a whole year -- it is even stranger to think that one year ago, I had not been to Europe at all. Yet, the most startling realization I' ( Read more... )

Canada is a very exciting and mysterious place not often frequented by Americans. For the enlightenment of you, my fellow countrymen (and others of you who are not my countrymen at all), I have captured my Canadian experiences with some rather blurry and inadequately taken photos. By the end of this post, you will all be wishing that Elizabeth ( Read more... )

So, Thursday night we had this Gala. It was pretty good, and very long. We left at 4:30 and didn't return until 1:30AM, so there wasn't really any point to sleeping. I showered around three, met Caitlin (her name could be spelled incorrectly, but she's this girl from New Jersey who, on Thursday night, I discovered was going on the same train as ( Read more... )