Amsterdam

..Is awesome! I had a great time in spite of the cold weather. Here are a few BlackBerry photos.

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Vacation!

I am leaving today for a two-week vacation to Holland and India. I'll try to post pictures from various places. So excited!!!

I still have posts from five more years to add here. I seem to never have time.

Going to try (again) to figure out how to make posts directly from my BlackBerry. Again, never had time/got around to that...

Time to get the final few errands done before time to leave for the airport. Hooray!

Frequent Flyer

I would like to take a moment to wrap my head around December and January's travel schedule.

December: Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Washington DC, Columbia, MD, Tulsa and Lawton, OK, Various Small Texas Towns for Christmas, Los Angeles.

January: Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Amsterdam (!!!), Bombay (!!!!!), Ahmedabad, New Delhi.

Now time to try experimenting with uploading images here - and how to do this from my BlackBerry so I can post from all of these random places.

San Fransisco - interesting poodle sculpture at the SFMOMA (October).

Testing 1...2...3

I had a blog for many years, seven to be exact, but once I got caught up in the whirlwind of corporate America, I stopped writing. I miss it, though, so I'd like to start back up again. Some loser domain squatter company bought my old domain, so for now, until I get them to sell it back to me, blogspot it is. This is a heck of a lot easier than the old days, I have to admit - it took about five minutes to set up this site, rather than the weeks or even months it used to take me to hand code this mess. I'm going to try to find all my old posts and get them added here as it's quite fun (at least for me) to go back and read my thoughts from back in college, during my 20s, etc.

What I Did During 2006 - Mexico

I traveled to Mexico to attend the fifteenth birthday party of Cristina's little sister, Mayra. The birthday girl would return the favor five years later by coming to my wedding in India. Fifteenth birthdays are a big deal in Mexico, and this one was no exception.

After spending some time in the girls' hometown on the east coast of Mexico (including Cristina's dad surprising us with a trip to a classic car show - Cristina and I both love old cars), I headed back to one of my favorite cities, Monterey, and attended a real deal Lucha Libre (wrestling match) with some other friends.

What I Did During 2006 - New Orleans

This trip was for work, and just a few months after Hurricane Katrina and the floods (you can still see that quite a lot of the buildings were still boarded up at this point). The city was so different from how I remembered it from my last trip. What a place...

What I Did During 2006 - Puerto Rico

During 2006, I worked and I traveled. That's really about it. I'll post some photos from various trips, starting with Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico - visited the main island, Culebra, and Vieques with an old friend from my teaching days. Swimming in the Bioluminescent Bay in Vieques is likely the coolest thing I have ever done in my life.

First picture is some cool art in Vieques. Next, no lie, a Cock Fighting arena. Can't believe that this is legal. PR is, after all, part of the US, right? Clearly I was not the only surprised by this unique...family business in the third photo. Look at the people craning their heads around on the right. Next picture is of a fabulous beach in Culebra. Finally, the sodas building - I always love good graphic design.