Travels

This is from the blog of Marie Javins, an American living for three months in Kuwait as an illustrator, who a few years ago did a World Tour. The Scene: Four employees of an unnamed publishing company are in a small office on the 28th floor of a high-rise in downtown Kuwait. The lovely, youthful Lebanese translator is working on translating a panel in an unspecificed comic. She looks up at the Indian copywriter, a young man with a slightly…

Boing Boing posted this list of the World Livestock Auctioneer Championships. This is pretty amazing. I’m thinking that they’d sound good also mixed with an electronic/techno track. I’ll try one later today. When I showed my co-worker, Curt Poff, our resident Midwesterner — he hails from outside St. Joseph, MO — he told me that his father is a professional auctioneer. That’s pretty sweet. This is a part of America that I know nothing about. On the American (Hadsell) side…

So despite the fact that I’m a stockholder, I’ve never actually flown JetBlue. My grandmother pointed out that they’re currently selling $39 one-ways from OAK to Long Beach, and I immediately grabbed it. (Although in my haste, I had to make a change from a Friday eve flight to an early Sat morning flight due to a thing at work that I forgot about.) I’m leaving my craigslist ad up for now on the off chance that someone replies so…

As a Christmas gift to everyone, tonight I put up some photos from West Africa on Flickr and finally finished Episode 3 of The Wanderlust Geek Podcast

On various occasions, I get pangs of wanderlust that pulsate through my veins. I read about I am in a constant struggle with my general love of the Bay Area and all of the wonderful people and sights that it holds and with my desire to see the world. I have a map of the world in my bedroom and one above my desk at work and am constantly reminded of all of the places in the world that I…

Head over to Wanderlustgeek.com for the skinny, or download it directly here.

Wanderlustgeek.com ! First episode includes a chat about spending Thanksgiving abroad with Bhu and Lane.

Second (and final) half of photos from Turkey. These include the 1,000 year old church-in-a-cave paintings, such as this one. Incredible.

My cousin Nena do Nascimento (who I lived with in Switzerland) is studying abroad in Brazil this year, on her junior year abroad at McGill University. She’s just started a LiveJournal. For those of you who’ve studied abroad before, some words of encourgement I’m sure would be appreciated. Go Nena!

These are some photos from the first few days in Istanbul. More coming soon.