April 2011
3 posts
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I already eat cereal this way…
March 2009
21 posts
“This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty, this...”
– William Shakespeare
“Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?”
– Eliza Cook
A Perfect Afternoon at Vianden Castle, Luxembourg
While I have been to older places, Vianden Castle in Luxembourg remains one of the most memorable…
Our trip to the canton of Vianden—and Vianden Castle—in Luxembourg occurred during the summer of 2000. I was traveling through Europe on something of a club tour with a group of close friends. We had just spent two weeks in Ibiza, and we had arrived back in Amsterdam. Looking for something...
“So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.”
– William of Baskerville
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough...”
– Benjamin Franklin
My care package would contain tuna fish. Just tuna...
Why my homesick friend deserves nothing more than a box full of tuna fish…
He wouldn’t appreciate it, but for some reason this prompt reminded me of a prank a couple of my closest friends played on me during our junior year of college. So I’m going to pretend that the friend in question in this case, spending his six homesick months abroad, is a member of this small group of...
February 2009
35 posts
“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do...”
– Cyril Connolly
Reading 'The Sun Also Rises' opened my eyes
The book that introduced me to “expatriate nihilism” and changed my outlook on life forever…
During college I would go through different “writer periods” where I would skip class and sit in a booth in the Burger King on Nassau Street in Princeton, NJ, reading book after book. I would normally choose a writer I liked and literally read everything I could find by...
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the...”
– Buddha
“I don’t know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing....”
– Steve Hofstetter
My trip from Galveston, TX to Harrisburg, PA
My two-day odyssey from TX to PA fueled by nothing but a Texaco credit card…
While this wasn’t the longest trip by distance I’ve ever made (I’ve driven cross-country twice), it was far and away the most physically grueling and mentally taxing. A friend was starting a graduate program in Texas, and I volunteered to tow his car (packed full of all his worldly possessions)...
“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of...”
– John Wesley Powell
A trip to The Grand Canyon would be nice this...
The Grand Canyon
My girlfriend and I have never been to the Grand Canyon, and as someone who lives in Las Vegas, that simple fact always seems strange to people given the Canyon’s proximity. For Valentine’s Day, however, it seems to offer the whole package: Sweeping vistas, good photo opportunities, a bit of physical exertion, and the ability to inject some romance into any part of...
“New York…is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and...”
– Roland Barthes
