Category: Misc

  • Rome

    From Florence I took a high speed train to Rome in late June. I stayed at a small Airbnb loft near Palatine Hill, the Colosseum, […]

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  • Florence

    After my stay in Venice I jumped on a high speed train — the trains in Venice leave directly from the main islands via a […]

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  • Venice

    In June after visiting Barcelona I took a flight to Venice and stayed for a few nights. I only visited the main island chain, though […]

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  • Barcelona

    In the very first post in this blog, I justified its creation by stating that I had some things to talk about, or “In other […]

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  • Eurotrip 2017: Itinerary and transportation costs

    In a previous post about my trip to the Mediterranean earlier this summer, I broke down how I decided to take a month long vacation […]

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  • I took that crazy cheap flight to Barcelona

    Recently a new airline called Level introduced a crazy cheap nonstop flight from Oakland to Barcelona. I immediately decided to take the plunge and book […]

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  • The guy who teleported to Mars with Obama is running for president

    Back in 2012, I covered the story of Andrew Basiago, a man who claims he teleported to Mars with Barack Obama. This even made it […]

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  • My homemade pipe stool

    Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about design, and specifically how the environments we encounter can suggest that one take a certain course of action. […]

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  • ClickHole’s obsession with firetrucks

    The Onion has always had long-running gags to tickle the minds of their most astute readers. For example, does the name Don Turnbee ring a […]

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  • Surge resurges in 2014

    Before Red Bull reached American shores in 1997, there were no “energy drinks” on our store shelves. Not knowing what we were missing, we went […]

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