Blogs from Davis, California, United States, North America

I've been thinking for quite some time about how unfortunate it is that I stopped writing these blogs after I left Argentina. When every day of your life is an adventure, how can one rank the importance of place? Is it not worth writing about my life if I'm not living and learning about a foreign land? My parents just went to sleep. This is the first night since I've been home (3 weeks) that I am staying up later than them...and no...I'm not stoned. They usually mention something about being tired around 10:30 and then....boom! It's 1 in the morning...and another episode of _(Insert any tv show you want here)__ winds down on Hulu. I had my own odd too-early-to-be-real sensation of tiredness this evening. At about 8, after finishing a delicious dinner of take-out ... read more

I have spent 21 years on this planet, and were it a body, I would only be acquainted with one ass hair of it. I've lived a good life by most standards. Hailing from Oakland, I study history and English at UC Davis. But whether it's the methane in the cow pastures or the too many biking accidents, I have an itch that must be scratched. I have to get out. And so I leave the comforts of college life, my loving friends and family, and burritos to go to the opposite side of the world to find myself and why I left in the first place. I will be with the University of California Education Abroad Program for the better part of my trip, yet I will set off to explore for myself as much ... read more

leaving linz's today and will arrive in santa rosa about 2. maybe i'll take some photos of the area like sonoma which is a cool little town.... read more

So Frizz and I are going on an adventure. We leave this evening at 1:20 am! We will be going to India, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and then will have a few day stop over in Hong Kong. Our adventure will last roughly five weeks and we will return the 4th of July. I will post more as I settle in and have something exciting to actually talk about but I am very excited. I pretty much have been running around like a mad women trying to get everything done before I take Amtrak/Bart to SFO and am finally done I think. Hopefully I will manage to get to the airport with tickets in hand and in one piece, which knowing me will be quite an adventure. I will be sure to keep everyone posted. ... read more

Davis is about an hour east of San Fran in the desert. I camped at the airfield along with 200 other skydivers for 5 days and had a lot of fun. I was taking it easy though as I hadn't jumped for 5 months and its bloody expensive. I did 9 jumps and I learnt so much in such a short space of time. Met some fantastic people and my love for the sport has grown more. Its something however I'll have to pick up when I return as skydiving without a job equals an extremely poor and single man. Still worth it though! Once again I'll have to update photos and write more when I find a suitable computer.... read more

June 11-22 San Diego June 23-July 26 Stockholm & Sigtuna, Sweden This is a summer abroad program to study Viking Life and Times ... and no, it does not have anything to do with either of my majors. July 27-31 Amsterdam, Holland August 1-27 Edinburgh, Scotland Working with Assembly Rooms, one of the biggest production companies at the Fringe Festival. August 27-30 ????? August 31-September 6 San Diego... read more

I moved away from Mexico. I don't have a job, so I'm kind of hanging out for a few weeks. I decided to take a jaunt to my old ciudad universitaria. (I regularly update this blog.) I got into Davis on Thursday night. (I chose the Carl's Jr. Jalapeno Burger over In N Out. What? I wasn't hungry at the Kettleman City offramp.) When I got to Jason's house there were fraternity pledges preparing an exchange with a moderate sorority. They aren't a politically centrist sorority, they're the fairly attractive sorority, which is a major accomplishment for the chapter of the fraternity having this exchange. I'm not sure what the theme was but I was zip-tied to a girl who was excited to find out that I was responsible for the Picnic Day Anthem . She ... read more

So I leave for Denver, CO in a couple days. I am meeting up with Kevin and then we are driving down to Texas from there. Im excited to be going somewhere new to climb and to be going for so long which should be an amazing experience. I am really tired still from all the New Years hubbub so its hard to piece together sentences and make sense; sorry if its kind of jumbly and haphazard. At the same time, I am extremely aware of what I will be missing while I'm gone; I will be without my closest friends, my wife (who is actually going to be in Washington, D.C.) my job, and my boyfriend. Wierd, in that sentence I have both a wife and boyfriend...pretty swanky life I lead... Anywhoo, I think this ... read more