A blog. Thoughts. Musings.
On our last team call, we had a big problem: Lucille had received a bunch more Intel paraphernalia: speakers, keyboards, and more! It was basically enough to fill a whole other suitcase. “How am I going to fit all these […]
About two weeks had gone by since my dad left the safe haven of St. John’s Island. I had been checking his progress every couple days, and this particular morning I hadn’t looked yet, nor did I know that you […]
This year it was role reversal: I was an assistant whereas last year I participated as a student. Clearly it was a very different experience, but still very fun! Here’s a little video I put together for the team and […]
Say What? Yeah. He’s talked about sailing around the world, so this trip from the Caribbean to the UK is, let’s just say: his training trip. So I’m a tiny bit worried… this sort of trip was not something done […]
The first thing I notice when I haven’t slept much is that my skin starts feeling unhealthy: more red spots, more sensitive and brittle. All it takes is one night of only 5 hrs of sleep. We all know that […]
A little late posting, but better late than never. Was just having too much fun since Thanksgiving apparently and had no time to post. This year, I decided to forgo the “usual” Thanksgiving dinner with the usual suspects in Portland […]
This was a journey requiring 1 hour of shopping, 6 hours of mixing and baking, and 1.5-2 hours of decorating. The idea came out of a weekend getaway in the enchantments. On the drive home, a two hour discussion then […]
Monday. My second to last day in Europe. I stayed at a hostel that night, woke up sort of late, then took some time to find an indoor bouldering place which ended up being closed till that evening. Then I […]
Aka: Lanmannalaugar. The Icelandic language looks impossible, but it is actually quite simple, they are just lazy to put spaces, so the language stuck that way. Some words I found common to Norwegian, for example “Takk” is thank you in […]
At the Tegel airport in Berlin, I was messaging this man who had contacted me through Couchsurfing.com. He said he was going on a trip to south Iceland from Reykjavik and didn’t want to go alone. I was kind of […]