Last night marked the end of daylights savings time, and as such, our clocks were moved back one hour. When I was a kid, I recall quite a bit of effort taking place to make this happen, as my parents would have to manually change each clock in the house by hand. I [...]
There is a large, framed and very old photograph hanging in the back hallway of a bar in downtown Portland that captured my attention the very first time I saw it. This washed out, turn of the century black and white photograph shows a barren hillside, upon which sits two homes, and before them stretches what appears [...]
Bob Dylan turns 70 this month and tributes are pouring in from around the world. I figured it was only appropriate that I take a moment to put down some thoughts on the man who I point to as the most influential person in my life (parents not included of course). While these days my musical library [...]
I love to travel. So much so that if money was no issue, I would leave town tomorrow and travel the globe non-stop for the rest of my time on this planet. There is really nothing I enjoy more than seeing a landscape I’ve never encountered before – coming into a town I’ve never walked [...]
An old school-mate of mine who happens to share my interest in web design and serial entrepreneurship recently completed a challenge he devised called 100 Goals In 100 Days. The concept is simple – list out 100 goals, and complete them in 100 days. As someone who recognizes the power in setting goals – this seemed like a great [...]
2010 is rapidly coming to an end, and it’s time to review the past year and plan out the next. I’m pretty obsessed with planning out my life – especially when it comes to travel. I find that if I can plan my adventures out far enough, they not only always come to [...]
I’m flying down to San Francisco at the moment – 20000 feet in the sky – writing a blog post on my iPad. In fact, minus a few obvious items like clothes and an assortment of travel size bathroom products – I brought little more than my iPhone and iPad on this trip.
I didn’t even [...]
When I was twenty-three years old, I packed up what I could into my Honda Civic and drove out West with my girlfriend and good friend to Oregon, sight-unseen to start a new life. I quit a good job at a university, and with about $1000 to my name, headed West with abstract thoughts [...]
On our second to last day in Ireland, my father and I negotiated the Ireland busing system, and purchased two tickets to Ardee, a small village about an hour and a half north of Dublin. The bus would apparently stop a five minute walk outside of the main town – and another bus would [...]
On the far end of the Dingle Peninsula of Ireland, out past the quaint little fishing village that is its namesake, are a series of stone bee-hive shaped dwellings in a circular formation, surrounded by a stone-wall and sitting on the side of a hillside overlooking Dingle Bay and further out over the Atlantic Ocean. [...]
