Blogs from Seattle, Washington, United States, North America - page 96

The Friday Night Liquor Cult Goes Global! DJ Gibbyabreak is getting married in Santorini, Greece on Wednesday June 8th and two correspondents from Seattle's degenerate Bar Fly community will be tagging along to bring you live coverage of this monumental event. Along the way we'll spread the gospel according to Mark... (Maker's Mark) while sampling local delicacies like Amsterdam's Heineken, the Ouzo in Athens, Absinthe from Prague and whatever it is those crazy Hungarians drink in Budapest... :) Here's our Clark Griswold inspired schedule: Amsterdam June 1-4 Athens June 4-6 Santorini June 6-10 Prague J... read more

Cinnabon. Taco Bell. Mandatory eavesdropping. Relatively humdrum traffic. Box stores. 7-second limit on staring. Lack of 15th-century farmhouses (well, 15th-century ANYTHING). WAAAAY different food. American keyboards. The annoying urge to compare everything to Italy. These are among the millions of aspects of my home country that are swamping me right now. I knew it would be a shock, but could never have imagined how foreign my birth country could seem to me. Or how much I could appreciate the little things. Like friendly shopkeepers, or walking by a crew of construction workers and realizing that the knee-jerk inward cringe I have developed in Italy has become relatively unnecessary. On the other hand, it was a testament to another habit I've cultivated (espresso) when I took a swallow of drip coffee and realized it was completely indistinguishable ... read more

Testes, uh, 1...2...uh...3? This is pretty much just a test run to see if the travel blog works, how easy or difficult it is to get to it, etc. I have the reader's best interest in mind, believe me. If travelblog.org ends up being dumb, I'll switch, but it seemed comparable to the other blogserv sites, less crowded, and specifically designed with the traveler in mind. Check, check...sibilance Hmm...so, I'm about to embark on this journal of epic, Gilgameshian proportion, and I'm as excited and scared as I can be. I've done some traveling, as most of you know, but I've only really gone for month-long stints to countries where I spoke the language (at least tolerably). This is a year-long contract, and I speak Korean about as well as any Korean...any Korean that is also ... read more

Hope everyone is well! Well, we finally crashed on our Seattle hotel bed at 11pm after a 30 hour flight including short stopovers. We can't complain too much as there weren't too many delays, and the Pacific crossover wasn't as painful as feared. We certainly caught up with a number of recent movies missed due to all the planning for the wedding and holiday!! Though you can only handle so much in that time frame. You would have been in your element Michelle! The long haul flight got off to a bad start with our Jumbo having to divert from Melbourne to Sydney for refueling (due to upgrades to the runway and building of new terminal). Besides the added flight time, we had to disembark and undergo a second more rigorous security check at the Sydney ... read more

Hello all, I’m now back in Seattle, flew back two nights ago, and as always I’m playing catch up with the blog, but here are some highlights, and most importantly I’ve posted a bunch of pictures. So I did do another couple of days of backcountry in the Alta area before leaving Utah. I met up with some friends from Bozeman and we did two days on the lifts and two days of hiking for our turns. So if anyone heads out that way for backcountry (well worth it) talk to some patrollers at Alta to get info on where the good snow is and where not to go. Those guys were great, usually patrollers just will tell you to avoid the backcountry in any conditions, but the Alta guys pulled out maps and gave us ... read more