Category: travel
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SF III: Flora and Fauna
San Francisco is a magical land where succulents grow like shrubbery outside. For scale: Succulent next to man. The types of growing things also changed dramatically from one place to another. Here, by the Golden Gate, everything looked like a dusty-colored version of itself. The sea lions were so very strange. I don’t know that I had…
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SF II: Dark and Light
San Francisco is a city of dark and light. The murals were beautiful. The people and the community we found there were helpful and inspiring. While walking through the Latino Mission looking for murals, we found a woman breaking a glass bottle to collect discarded cigarette remains to smoke. On Monday night, after a beautiful…
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SF I
San Francisco may have been one of the best vacations I have ever taken. Granted, as a farm kid, my family wasn’t able to travel a lot, so my vacation experience is limited (though I think all the time I spent in Spain probably more than makes up for that). It was more or less…
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Weekend Pairing: Wanderlust
This Weekend Pairing is brought to you by my wanderlust. In honor of our travels (to Baltimore for a wedding, and then onto San Francisco for a fun anniversary trip) this week, enjoy the following. I love the second one especially. MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. ” Traveling Denim ” Recording color fade for…
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Flashback: Canada
I originally planned to root around to find the pictures from a missions trip in Costa Rica six (six!) years ago, but that is proving to be a time-consuming task. Canada is easier and more accessible. My mom’s twin sister’s husband’s family (lots of possessives!) owns a cabin on a Beverly Lake in Delta, Ontario.…
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Travel Flashback: Spain
I returned from a semester in Spain four years ago this past May. Four years is a long time, and I didn’t really do much to document the trip at the time. The camera I was using (that I bought specifically for the trip, earning money by hawking Penn State clothing and paraphernalia in a very student-centric…