Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Friday, August 7th, 2009
No, I didn't go hunting with Mr. Shakespeare. This is about going out and taking pictures with my Bard camera bag by F-stop.
It's one thing to use a bag to carry stuff around with, but it's something entirely different to go out in the field and use it as a ...
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
I finally had good weather today, and decided to make the drive to Mt. Mitchell State Park, which lurks around milepost 354 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The last time I was there was in 2007, right before I left for Japan, so I figured now was as good a ...
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
I'm in Asheville for the weekend, and I decided to take in the Bele Chere festival today. Yes, that's how it's spelled. According to the official website FAQ, it's Scottish for something along the lines of "have fun."
It's definitely not a misspelling of the French phrase that refers to your ...
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
I just had a shocking discovery-- my AAdvantage miles have been taken away from me. American Airlines pulled the rug out from under me when I wasn't paying attention and expired them, since I haven't flown American in the last 18 months.
So the 23,500 miles I had so diligently hoarded ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
I had a really nice lunch with my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and my cousin Tuesday at a great sushi shop in Wilmington called Genki Sushi. It's my new favorite Japanese restaurant in the whole state. It's sort of like a cross between a sushi bar and an izakaya (which is ...
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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
I made it safely to Wrightsville Beach, NC, where we have a big family get-together every year. It involves eating way too much food and a lot of staring at the ocean. There's also a lot of setback involved.
Setback is a card game that apparently only the people in my ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Tonight I completed a dangerous and important task. I got cannoli for the big family get-together in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Since I'm in Baltimore, I might as well find an Italian bakery and give it a shot, right?
I decided to try to find one of the branches of Vaccaro's Italian ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
I've got some extra time to kill, since I'm skipping some of the Organized Fun Events at the conference, and instead just being a tourist here in Baltimore. I've only ever spent the night in Baltimore once, about 8-9 years ago, so I want to take the chance to see ...
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
So, after a somewhat uncomfortable drive on I-95, I made it to Baltimore for the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference.
Along the way, my TomTom GPS decided that no, the Beltway isn't a perfectly good way of going around Washington D.C. Instead, it kept insisting that I wanted to get off ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
I honestly can't remember if I posted this before, and I don't particularly feel like wading through the 90,000+ words I wrote about the trip to Japan to see if I have posted this before, but I found the whole breakdown of the various trains I took on my 52,000-yen ...
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