My sister Kari recently wrapped up a four-month, round-the-world trip via UVA’s Semester at Sea program. She will be stopping by here periodically throughout the next few months to regale you with tales from the ports. If you want to know anything specific about the trip, leave your questions in the comments, and she’ll answer [...]
Anchors Away: Eye to Eye with Jaws
April 12, 2010 By 25 Comments
This is one topic you likely thought you’d NEVER see on my site, given all the times I’ve talked about my biggest foe. Luckily, I have acquaintances even braver than I to make up for my lack of courage in some arenas. This guest blog is courtesy of Richard Luck, my sister Kari’s boyfriend whom [...]
Anchors Away: The Jewel of the Indian Ocean
April 6, 2010 By 16 Comments
My sister Kari is currently en route from South Africa to Ghana on her four-month round-the-world trip via UVA’s Semester at Sea program. Here, she talks about one of her favorite stops thus far, the African island nation of Mauritius. Hopefully, one of these days, she’ll have time to fill us in on the dozen [...]
Anchors Away: Postcards from Asia
March 16, 2010 By 12 Comments
Since Kari clearly has better things to do than stop by this blog and regale you guys with her tales (ahem, Kari, ahem), here’s the consolidated version of what her last six weeks have entailed: Visiting Pearl Harbor and Okinawa; skiing in Nagano, Japan; hiking the Great Wall in China; playing with pandas in Hong [...]
Anchors Away: The Big 5-0
February 16, 2010 By 28 Comments
My sister has agreed (albeit begrudgingly) to stop by occasionally and blog her trip around the world via the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program. Unfortunately, Internet time on the ship is minimal, so this is the first chance she’s had to write something up about her four weeks and one day on the [...]
Bon Voyage, Petite Souer!
January 18, 2010 By 23 Comments
Thanks to many of you, my little sister set sail last night from Ensenada, Mexico for her four-month around-the-world trip. I say “thanks to many of you,” because she had pretty much decided not to go until I wrote this post, and so many of you weighed in and convinced her she’d be making the [...]
Will She Stay or Will She Go
April 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I was surprised and, quite frankly, humbled by how many of you seemed genuinely concerned that my little sis, Kari, would make the biggest mistake of her life in turning down the opportunity to go on Semester at Sea. What I didn’t realize is that prior to posting my stance on the issue, she had [...]
Because You’re a Convincing Bunch
April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Alternately Titled: The One in Which You Persuade My Sister to Travel Around the World on a Ship for Four-and-a-Half Months. My little darling sis and I are polar opposites. Whereas, I’ve always been independent, she doesn’t like to stray far from my mom. She’s a brilliant, motivated, talented 20 year old, to say the [...]
