After spending a couple days on the Cook Islands’ main isle, Rarotonga, in the spring, we caught an inter-island flight up to Aitutaki, one of the country’s more exclusive components and the most stunning spot I’ve ever visited. Of anywhere. EVER. You gotta love a place where the inside of the airport terminal looks like [...]
Going to the Dogs
August 27, 2009 By 21 Comments
One great thing about my job and working from home is that I can get up at the crack of dawn (6am in this case), work until noon in a coffee-induced frenzy, then hop a train down to San Jose to meet Sarah for lunch. Not like I do that often or anything; I’ve been [...]
Photo Friday: Geirangerfjorden, Norway
August 21, 2009 By 27 Comments
Our seven-hour drive from Oslo to Geirangerfjorden was so beautiful—sunny and 75 degrees, not a cloud in the sky—that we had high hopes for the coming days. Ellen had packed all sorts of trekking gear and picnic supplies for us both, with the intention to spend our entire time on the coast outdoors. So imagine [...]
I Live Here: SF
August 19, 2009 By 26 Comments
When Julie Michelle e-mailed me asking if I wanted to take part in her amazing photography project I Life Here: SF, I was over the moon. The concept is capturing different personalities of local residents in urban settings and having them write up their stories and what this city means to accompany the photos on [...]
And the Winner is…
August 17, 2009 By 2 Comments
Of the 121 of you who left comments plus the 15 of you who got double entries from Tweeting and/or blogging about the contest, Random.org has declared the winner to be… Congratulations, Teej, AKA #23! Proper blog post to come this afternooon…
Photo Friday: Aarhus, Denmark
August 14, 2009 By 21 Comments
This is the town in which I used to live. This is the top-floor flat that SVV and I shared, compliments of IKEA. We had seven Danish flatmates. They liked to drink. And smoke. This is the bedroom, nine-square meters with slanted ceilings (and we didn’t even kill each other once). This is a dinner [...]
Friendship Without Borders
August 12, 2009 By 29 Comments
Some people you’re destined to befriend; fate makes your meeting simply inevitable, wouldn’t have it any other way. For me, Ellen is that person. A chance seating assignment on an IcelandAir flight a couple years back resulted in five hours of ceaseless, chatty conversation. Ellen hadn’t even been vacationing in Reykjavik as I had; she [...]
Mind the Gap (plus, a Giveaway!)
August 9, 2009 By 124 Comments
If you follow me on the Working Closet or take note of most of the self photos I post on here, you’ve probably noticed I’m not so much a jeans girl. In fact, I’ve often been described as denim-phobic. This is not because I find jeans too casual or feel like I always need to [...]
