Well, I am headed off to Aspen for a long weekend to celebrate my brother’s bachelor party. Should be nice considering that they just got 12-15 inches of snow over the last few days and it is suppsoed to be sunny for the rest of the weekend. As I was packing for the trip this…
After about 12 hours of travelling, I am back in Seattle. What a great vacation in Costa Rica. So nice. My only complaint is that 7 days is just not long enough to fully enjoy a vacation from work. I have now caught up on all of my accumulated magazines and other random things…
It was a last minute decision but I decided to take a week long vacation next week and go to Costa Rica. I leave on Saturday and am going to spend 8 days of rest and relaxation with a lot of surfing, some golf, and other things that you do on vacation in Costa… Playa…
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 –…
For the second day in a row, I woke up, opened my eyes, and was able to see Mt. Rainier. What a refreshing site after the last 5 weeks of rain/snow. In order to take advantage of the nice weather, I am going to go skiing on Saturday at Crystal Mountain (90 minutes from…
Sometimes when you are sitting in traffic on 520 wondering why you see people that have 1 or 2 people in their car but are still using the 3 person HOV lane, wonder no more…. The reason: the fine is only $86 if you are caught for the offense. Im sure a few people…
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….
Although this winter has been: 1) unseasonably rainy – we set the Seattle record for rain on the 15th of November and it rained for 5 days after that 2) unseasonably snowy – it has snowed more times so far than in Chicago i believe It is days like today that make you get…
I just read an article on MSNBC about a section of the Brazilian Amazon which had been saved from deforestation and plantation growth with a $1MM grant from Conservation International. The grant protects an area called the Guayana Shield, the 57,915-square-mile area which contains more than 25 percent of the world’s remaining humid tropical forests and…