Sometimes you take a trip for the purpose of seeing a city. Other times you do it for the purpose of seeing friends. My most recent trip to London definitely fell into the second category.

Throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. -Mark Twain
Going new places, all the time. Pictures, anecdotes, and experiences.
Last weekend I got a visit by the illustrious Tommy Flanagan, a fellow PLU alum who’s currently teaching English in Germany on a Fulbright.

Continue reading “Being a tourist in my own city (and in Copenhagen, too)”
I went to Berlin last weekend to reunite with my favorite city, see the illustrious Edwin again and pick up the bicycle I left there last summer. It was wonderful, nostalgic, surreal… and kind of abusive. As much as I love this city, I’m constantly reminded that it doesn’t love me back.
Continue reading “Berlin doesn’t love you”
A few weeks ago (noticing a trend here?) my BFF Edwin and I went to Hamburg for the gay pride weekend, officially known as Christopher Street Day. Continue reading “CSD 2013: Hamburg”
Last Saturday me and four friends took a little day trip to Erfurt and Weimar, two cute little German cities deep in Thuringia. Continue reading “Erfurt and Weimar: An excursion into Thuringia”