November 30, 2009 – 6:56 pm
From infancy to the time I worked (and thus had few vacation days), I have visited West Virginia. I still try to visit at Christmas. My mom’s from there, and my grandmother still lives there “in the house by the road,” not to be confused with our pre-Civil War “house on the mountain,” which is–as [...]
With the second installment of my Off the Wall series, I thought I’d show you something on a wall.
During the Ireland/U.K. trip of ‘08, my best friend Jessica and I took a Black Taxi tour through Belfast to hear about the Troubles, the strife between Catholics and Protestants that, sadly, continues.
This particular picture was [...]
Writing a journalism blog is difficult when you’re not exactly writing anything. Well, that isn’t quite accurate; I am working on that travel essay. And, sure, I copy edit and design for a newspaper, but it’s not as compelling as, say, escaping the Taliban. (Er…not that I would want to be captured by the Taliban. [...]
Not much going on. I’m writing a travel essay I’m going to submit somewhere once I get the fact-checking done.
However, I wanted to share this article. Apparently, a family’s Christmas card picture ended up as an advertisement in Prague. Even more interesting to me–because I love these small-world type stories–is the fact that she had [...]
The last installment of my backpacking trip, called A Wales of a time in Britain, is available at the News-Journal’s sister site Go386.
In it, I discuss five cities you can’t miss in England and Wales: York, Stratford-upon-
Avon, Cambridge, London, England; and Cardiff, Wales.
It’s slightly bittersweet that it ran because with the shortage of people at [...]
For the Daytona Beach News-Journal, where I work, I’ve been writing a series of articles about my month-long adventures in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales with my best friend. I mention CouchSurfing quite often. (I would love to provide links to said articles, but they disappear from the Web site after a week.)
A [...]
