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Thursday, January 27th, 2005Elaine & Snoop hangin' (more on the trip here)
Archive for January, 2005
The rest of the trip
Thursday, January 27th, 2005I'm currently in the DFW airport, waiting for my flight back to Seattle. Assuming we're on time, this will complete a 16 hour travel day and start my final 136 hours in the US before heading off to Africa. Still have much to do, but I have a plan and ...
Hotel Rwanda @ the Oscars
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005Hotel Rwanda has picked up three Oscar nominations: best actor, best supporting actress, and best screenplay. I actually haven't seen most of the films nominated for best picture, so I can't comment on whether Hotel Rwanda got screwed on that account, but I can definitely say that Don Cheadle and ...
Random Observations
Monday, January 24th, 2005Here are a few random things I've observed about Quito (and Ecuador in general) so far on this trip. I need to blog the weekend's activities (they involved something like 15 hours in vehicles for a bunch of meals and a look at a weird museum) but for now this ...
Club Havana
Friday, January 21st, 2005After a day mostly comprised of relaxation (including lunch with Marcelo's grandparents at their house... the first place I stayed in Quito some eight years ago), we went out last night for music and dancing at Club Havana. The club is a cute little place that's been open for around ...
No hay aire
Thursday, January 20th, 2005I've made it safely to Quito and, as you would expect, have found internet access fairly quickly. Old habits die hard and being disconnected even while theoretically on vacation just isn't an option. Please pardon any typos as the keyboard is set up for Spanish and all the symbol things are ...
Off to Ecuador
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005In about 3 hours I'll be on an MD-80 heading to Quito (by way of DFW and MIA) for a week or so hanging out and decompressing with Marcelo and his family. I've visited twice before - the first trip was in 1995 and was my first “real” trip outside the ...
Everyone else is blogging it, why shouldn’t I?
Monday, January 17th, 2005Matt's dancing video is one of the purest acts of genius I've run across in a very long time. Elaine blogged it tonight after seeing it. Ditto Mark. I guess it's my turn. (and yes, bonus points for a great domain name).
Eleven days
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005So, based on a draft itinerary I saw today I have around 11 days left in the country before leaving for Africa (number of days is reduced by forthcoming 8 day trip to Ecuador). Um, yeah. Holy cannoli all over again. My list is at around 45 items and growing, not ...
Hotel Rwanda
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005I bawled in the corner of the theater throught the credits. 'nuff said. More later but the basic message here is go see this film... (more info on the movie) (update 1/17 - by more later, I mean I'll be blogging from Kigali, not that I'll write more about the movie (although that was ...
