My first time in Switzerland was in September of 2003, when I was still a backpacker on a very tight budget and, as a double whammy, at a time when Switzerland was nowhere near as affordable as it is now. (The franc is one-to-one with the US dollar finally…can you believe it?!) So I lived [...]
Photo Friday: Lake Berryessa, California
September 25, 2009 By 11 Comments
We began the day bleary-eyed and sleepy at 630am on a Sunday to beat the traffic and weekend warriors. My good friend Danny had purchased this sexy race boat for a song from a dude desperate to purchase ANOTHER blown 454 Chevy speed-boat last year [...]
What Not to Care
September 23, 2009 By 14 Comments
I “met” Sarah Jackson back in the spring when she was preparing to embark on a three-week solo journey through Oz and was a bit weary about things. So she contacted me and I tried (tried being the operative word) to ease her fears. Well, as you can read below, things worked out swimmingly. A [...]
So You Wanna Be a Travel Writer?
September 14, 2009 By 59 Comments
Nomadic Matt’s recent post on how he started blogging as the ultimate goal to become a professional travel writer got me thinking about the industry as a whole, how the Internet creates this false facade that everyone is a writer and a sort of “why am I not getting paid to do this, too?” mentality, [...]
Photo Friday: San Diego, California
September 11, 2009 By 23 Comments
Until this past weekend, I hadn’t been to San Diego since 2002. It’s funny how differently you view a place when you’re in college and just looking for a good time versus when you’re all “grown-up” and value attributes like peace and quiet. After Holly’s wedding in Carlsbad, SVV, Moose, Jemima and I stayed downtown [...]
Hatmaker, Hatmaker, Make Me a Hat
September 8, 2009 By 25 Comments
I’d known about this wedding for nearly a year, and hardly anyone was more stressed than I, except perhaps the bride (kidding). Why, you ask? Because it was a very English wedding thrown by a very classy, English family, and my monster noggin does little to accommodate hats (and don’t tell me I don’t look [...]
Four*
September 2, 2009 By 30 Comments
*By now, those of you who have been my blog friends since Camels & Chocolate has been up and running are probably sick and tired of the tale of Scott+Kristin: Through the Ages. Well, then, you should probably divert thine eyes, as today is our fourth anniversary—or “Happy four years since I ignored you and [...]
SURPRISE!
September 1, 2009 By 24 Comments
Alternatively titled: In Which I Fly Home to Tennessee for My Mom’s Big Birthday Bash and Totally Catch Her Off Guard with Both My Visit and a Puppy, aka The One in Which I’m the World’s Best Daughter. Heh. OK, back up, rewind. My mom and dad were supposed to have come to California for [...]
