p-town throwdown

every spring nature's classroom invades provincetown - i had been hearing about "the throwdown" since i first got to nc. i had been to provincetown before, with ruth, zoe and pete. for an afternoon of walking and poking our heads into shops. i wasn't quite prepared for the debauchery of spending and evening drinking, buying drinks for strangers or enjoying drag queen karaoke!
and what better cure for a hangover than a boat ride...
i wasn't too hungover, and since i've never been motion sick before i wasn't surprised when there was no sea sickness!


a whole group of nature's classroom teachers set out on the boat. a few had been on whale watches before, but it was my first. in fact its the first open sea boat journey that i've ever been on.





and as you can tell not only where the whales so close to the boat, but they are pretty awesome too.


the boat basically took us to an ocean preserve, which sounds sort of odd, but it makes sense. shipping boats cannot use the area, which helps protect the animals that live there. on the way back to solid land a few people took naps.

scranton-icity

so while i have driven east many a times, and through Pennsylvania before, i had never been this close to Scranton! and as they say there "ain't no party like a scranton party". so i felt like i had to make a little detour. mostly i drove around for a bit. i did get out of my car to take some pictures. but there was no Dunder Mifflin around.
oh well!

my bags are packed...

well almost everything is back to being packed up! just like it was over two months ago when i headed back east the first time this year. except since i am now taking the first leg of my journey by plane, it is a little different. i have 2 pieces of luggage to check, 4 boxes to have my mom send, and my backpack- full of laptop, books, extra clothes & 3 cameras.

tomorrow is technically already here, and boy do i have a LOOONG journey in front of me.
1) flight to columbus ohio.
2) somehow get myself and all luggage downtown to find the greyhound bus station
3) take bus ride to mansfield ohio.
4) get ride to pro auto body
5) make sure the 9,000+$ being spent on fixing the car worked out
6) drive to cleveland

and from there i still have a 10 hour drive to ivoryton!

but after that i'll be out of this weird limbo that i've been in, and life will resume.
though many trips across this half of the country are pretty normal nowadays.
all i'm hoping for is to be able to have some more 'travel'like adventures on the wast coast, and continue this life of mine.

more like sliding

well its been over a year since i've posted, and i've traveled to some of the same american cities as before, and stopped in a few new places. i've definitely kept on the move.

that (and the fact that since i got julio one and half years ago i've put 20,000 miles on him) has led me to reboot this sucker. though sort of in secret since who knows who reads this, or knows about this or what not.

my plan (and please, someone hold me to it!) is to update with new travel stories:
the places, the people, the candy

as well as update and fill in the gaps (israel, spring breaks, hiking trips)
because lots of ridiculous things have happened to me, and continue to happen. and in my old age (22!) my memory has begun to fail me sometimes. so this "trip" down memory lane will hopefully help me and entertain you.

and the new posts may just clue you in on where i am and what is going on with me!