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how I’ll live my days from now on
I recently finished reading through Thom Hartmann’s Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight and have decided to design all my future days around an excerpt from the book, A Cree Native American storyteller and teacher told me: “According to my tradition, from the beginning of creation, every morning, when the sun comes up, we are each [...]
porter sculpture park and the corn palace
On the way out of Sioux Falls we stopped off at the towns namesake. The falls were intriguing but underwhelming because we were used to the massive waterfalls from North Carolina. However, for people accustomed to the rolling prairie-land I’m sure this was quite a sight. Perhaps the single most awesome (non-nature related) stop on [...]
driving through Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota
We left Chicago early in the morning, around 7:30am to allow plenty of time from driving through the rough traffic.
British Columbia rules
Flying into Charlotte-Douglas airport today was an emotional experience. My return home for the first time in five months was a great time to reflect on the beauty of all the amazing experiences I’ve had. However, I think I was mostly disappointed in the pristine landscape ruined by cookie cutter homes and cul-de-sacs cutting through [...]
welcome to the Midwest
Editors Note: The original intention was to post a description of my Summer 2009 roadtrip closer to the time that it occurred, but now 2010 is approaching and since I’m not even half-way through I need to get on this! When we drove through Gary, IN fighting through the traffic and then seeing Chicago’s skyline [...]
on the road to Chicago
The drive from Nashville to Chicago tied for our longest drive of the road-trip. Rarely did we have a full day of driving that was as long as this one. We started out by heading to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It is the longest cave system in the world! But unfortunately, the crowds [...]
a day in Nashville
After a solid rest in Nashville at the home of our CouchSurfing host, we departed for Fido on 21st Ave, a local coffee and breakfast joint. Delicious. Next up we paid a visit to the Parthenon. Yes, the Parthenon. Because Nashville has so many universities, Fisk University, Saint Cecilia Academy, Montgomery Bell Academy, Meharry Medical [...]
leaving North Carolina
Starting Friday, June 26th 2009 my life changed dramatically. I left my job at Duke Energy, I spent a few weeks in western North Carolina at Lake Santeetlah with Jane and her family, I packed up, said goodbye, drove for a month across the US and Canada with my fianceé and @serdmanczyk (Erby), moved to [...]
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the “Googlization of Everything” at UBC
The best thing about being back in a university environment is the opportunity to explore talks from great thinkers outside my field of materials engineering. Thanks to the magic of a running twitter search for UBC I found out at 11:45 that University of Virginia cultural historian and media theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan was giving a [...]
I’m not alone: many leaving to US and going to school in Canada for good reasons
Apparently many other college students are leaving the United States and going to Canada. The Canadian Embassy reports that as many as 10,000 American students are being educated in Canada this year, a three-fold increase from a decade ago. I’m going to graduate school in Canada for several main reasons: I can work at a [...]
