I am taking a little study break from my Money Markets and the Fed exam studying and decided to quickly express my feelings on how pumped I am for Spring Break. Myself and 12 friends are headed to Aspen for a week of skiing (think snow) and then 15 of us are headed to Acapulco where…
Last summer after graduating from school, I spent a month traveling around South Africa by rental car. What a fantastic country. One of the places that I visited was Gaansbai which is about 90 minutes north of Capetown. Gaansbai, South Africa known around the world as the capital for great white shark diving. So…. given…
Since I now have the ability to embed videos and pictures in Spaces, i am checking out how it looks on a few different sites. Below is a embed of a slideshow of my pictures from the South American segment of my around the world trip in 2002. Enjoy! http://p.webshots.com/flash/smallslideshow.swf Chris’s South America Experience Overview –…
Someone told me today where Kazakhstan (Borat’s country) ranks in the world in terms of size and I was surprised. So I decided to pose the question to you as well: What rank is Kazakhstan in the world in terms of size (sq. kms)? a) 1 – 5 b) 5 – 10 c) 11 – 15 d) 16 – 25…
One of the things that I love to do is partake in large parties around the world and celebrate with the locals (and fellow tourists…). I have attended a few world famous ones in my life so far: Carnival in Rio, Mardi Gras, JazzFest, and Oktoberfest in Munchen but I still have a bunch more on my "future travel" wishlist….
Given our love of music and food, Beth Ann and I had been talking about visiting Austin ever since we met, and unfortunately I had never made it down for SXSW. So, when we saw that the Memorial Day weekend weather was going to be classic Seattle spring (read: rainy), we booked a last minute…