February 2012
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no legoland for me =(
There’s a Legoland here in San Diego!!
Deeply saddened that it’s built without adults in mind at all though =( Found this and a bunch of other similar reviews on Tripadvisor:
Our boys were 13 and 11 - huge Lego fans. The rides were generally too little for them but they loved Miniland, Xbox game space, Build and test, and shopping. We wish we would have visited here 3-4 years ago!...
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An update from San Diego, aka "Why does nobody do...
I’ve been in San Diego for 1 week now. I’ve been looking for a semi-permanent place basically since the day I arrived and still have yet to find anything promising. Prices here are high ($700-1500/month for what I want) and my requirements for a place are limiting: large bedroom that I can fit a bed and a desk in (master bedroom, typically) + short term lease (3 months or less). The...
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WatchMade it to San Diego! It’s so warm here. Think I will probably stay awhile.
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Cost of housing per day
I was talking with my dad on the phone tonight and we had a discussion about the cost of hotels, apartments and houses. One interesting finding for me was that I’ve always tried to do the “cost of housing” calculation by year - never looking at it from a monthly or daily perspective. This may make more sense for travelers, especially those working and traveling like me.
The...
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January 2012
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WatchCorpus, ho!
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Travel Tip #10: Change/DELETE your old address
This is more of a moving tip, but since I sold all my stuff and left my house, it’s a travel tip too =)
Change your address on all your accounts, especially bank accounts. Address changes with the USPS only go for 1 year and then they stop forwarding.
DELETE your old address from everywhere you can think of, particularly places that save multiple addresses like Amazon.com and...
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Single, traveling alone, not religious in the...
To Filipinos, I’m not sure which was more confusing.. the fact that I am:
- Single
- Traveling solo
- Don’t believe in any sort of god, Christian or otherwise
Alone and Single
Everywhere I went, some of the first questions that were asked were, “Where is your girlfriend?” and “Who are you traveling with?”. I of course replied with the truth, “I...
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Travel tip #9: Join Couchsurfing
Join Couchsurfing.org.
1. Join some groups, add people you already know.
2. Get verified. You will have more people accept you AND, just as important, you’ll show up in more search results and get more people who want to stay with you.
3. Host people! Meet travelers, learn the pain and pleasure of being a host.
4. Join local groups when you start traveling. There are tons of...
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This morning I got interviewed on hometown radio...
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Travel Tip #8: Find other travel tips
Some of the best advice I got was from other travelers. Before you go though (these are awesome, btw):
Travel the world - How I did it stories (43 Things) Backpack through Europe - How I did it stories (43 things)
And of course, don’t forget to google for travel tips.
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The California Plan
I’m going to California; the Bay Area, specifically. I’m taking a route through Austin to grab a couple items I left with friends and then through a few more cities to spend time with friends and family while I make my way toward the coast.
Google tells me that it will take me 3,084 miles and 50 hours of driving. I told a friend about it and she asked how much time I had planned...
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Travel Tip #7: Use earplugs
I kept a ziploc baggie of about 10 of them because I used them every night and didn’t want to use the same ones over and over. Also, they’re small and easy to lose.
I wore them pretty much every night in the Philippines. They protected me from the aural hazards of: traffic, people outside, people inside, roommates in hostels, roosters crowing all night long, early rising/late...
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New Years Resolution: nailed it.
33,845 words in my journal for 2011. Almost a novel! New years resolution for 2011 - nailed it. Upping the bar for 2012 =)
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Weather
Currently in:
Manila: 77F (25C) Austin: 60F (15.5C) San Francisco: 60F Springfield: 25F (-3.8C) with a low of 13F (-10.5C) tonight. Also, 24 mph winds and snow flurries at the moment.
There’s a reason I’m not staying here.
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Regain my endurance
When I was younger, about 18, I took the longest bike ride of my life - 75 miles.. By mountain bike. I went from Springfield, Illinois to Jacksonville, Illinois via a bunch of country roads. I didn’t know where I was going, I just took off riding and headed west; eventually I found a route. I didn’t eat much the entire trip. I remember stopping in Jacksonville along the main road -...
December 2011
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Diversity in the USA
I really took the diversity of the United States for granted.
That whole “The United States is the melting pot” business they taught us in school means a lot more to me now that I’ve spent 4 months away from it all. I heard it all the time and thought “yeah yeah, I get it”. It’s really incredible thing if you look at the rest of the world though. Aside from...
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i feel like i can breathe again