So far, things are going great for our first annual English trip 🙂 [scroll to the end for a few pics] Yesterday we drove 640 miles from Houston all the way to Carlsbad, New Mexico. We made great time and even got to drive by the Alamo and take some quick pics! Near Kerville, the… Read More In the Middle of Nowhere
Here’s a compilation of delightful signs I’ve put together over the years. Some are funny. Some are obscure. Some just give me a jolly chuckle. Some are just worded interestingly. I’ve posted some of them before, but enjoy! SINGAPORE INDONESIA MALAYSIA THAILAND CAMBODIA LAOS JAPAN INDIA first, notice the groupings. remember those homework papers you… Read More Signs.
This is way past due, but I wanted to add it to the blog anyway. Last summer, I got to visit Kiev for a few days. It was wonderful. My friend Sasha at Texas A&M is from Ukraine. I had met her parents once before when they came to Texas, so they invited me to… Read More Kiev in Pictures
Detroit is crazy. Let me tell you about it. The last day of our trip, we woke up in Ann Arbor. It was somewhere around 7-10 degrees F. SOOOOO cold. Naturally, I took a hot shower. And it was beautiful… At first. Just as I was about to rinse the conditioner out of my hair,… Read More Michigan Part 2: Detroit is Bizarre
I have never been so cold as I was in Michigan… It’s not all Michigan’s fault… I’m sure Chicago would have felt just as cold if not colder if we hadn’t left when we did… The morning that we boarded our Amtrak train from Chicago, the weather had dropped to 19 degrees F… By the… Read More Michigan: The Great Lakes State: Otherwise known as the Freezing State
I officially found my favorite U.S. city. Chicago. Hands down. Not so stuck up as New York. Not so laid back as Seattle. Just perfectly in the middle. Granted, I was only there for 2 days, but you can tell a lot in 2 days. It was a great quick trip. Friday morning, we boarded… Read More The Windy City
So it’s becoming a joke these days that my new life tag line should be “Will Travel for Weddings”. In the past year, I’ve gone to 2 Indian weddings, a Korean wedding (though it was in the US), and an Indonesian wedding. And an Albanian wedding is already in the works for next year. It started… Read More Will Travel for Weddings…
So Indonesia is awesome. It’s officially confirmed. I felt that way jthe first time and I still feel that way this second time. However, my first tip to any American who travels here: If you’re served fried chicken, or any kind of chicken for that matter, make sure the piece you’ve chosen for yourself isn’t… Read More Sumatra
I am so thankful for my Singapore friends. It’s a weird thing, really, because we go years at a time without seeing each other. (well, we’re averaging about once a year). So it’s weird in some senses because a lot changes in a year and we’ve lost a lot of what we shared in common.… Read More Same Same but Different
Lauren Around the Globe 