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Maccu Picchu: Good, Bad, Beautiful, & Ugly
Monday, April 5th, 2010

It´s been awhile since I´ve posted, but I have good reason for that — I´m traveling sans laptop meaning no photoshop meaning no pretty photos for you (yet, that is).  But I have a good reason for writing and I want to do it while it´s still fresh in my mind.  Last night I got [...]

Pão de Açúcar and Why I Hate Tourists
Saturday, February 13th, 2010

I have issues with tourist attractions. I hate the Disney World-like lines. I hate the fashion-challenged crowds decked out in mid-calf socks and running sneakers, Hawaiian-print shirts, and cameras hanging around their necks waiting their turn to get the generic “look-at-me-I-have-proof-I-was-here-at-this-place-so-far-away” photo only to speed off to the next destination to do the [...]

Pretty As They May Be, Birds Are Not My Thing
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

On our trip to the zoo, my Aunt Lynn was all excited that you could feed the birds and they’d come right over and hang out on your arm. And I was all, “I don’t trust those things, they’re spastic and poop everywhere.”

Sure enough, once one got wind that the nice lady was feeding [...]