Archive for July, 2009

California Trip Part Two: San Francisco

July 12, 2009 at 7:30 pm in Travel

I’ve been to some really touristy places in my life. Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Padre Island, Texas. And at the heart of all these places was something that really was worth seeing (thus the tourism) that was inevitably overstated by kitschy t-shirts, refrigerator magnets, and guided sightseeing tours. So when we set out for [...]

California Trip Part One: Yosemite

July 6, 2009 at 9:29 am in Travel

We officially began our summer this year with a trip to California, partly to celebrate my recent college graduation, partly to see our good friends Seth and Laura in San Francisco, and partly because we both needed a vacation. We spent the first part of our trip at Yosemite National Park, which has to be the [...]

This Looks Vaguely Familiar

July 2, 2009 at 1:55 pm in Random

I’m not much of a blogger, though it’s not for lack of trying. First it was Xanga, then Livejournal, WordPress, and even my own personal site (which was really more of a design experiment, and which still exists here, for  purely aesthetic and nostalgic purposes). I always started so well, with so many thought-out posts and [...]