south dakota, v.4

Once we crossed the South Dakota border, it took us a good portion of the drive to figure out how many times I’d been to Watertown. We finally decided that this was my fourth visit. (We based it on the number of times I’d been to the Harbor Bar, i.e. every time.) We rolled in around 8 on Thursday night, ...

a thought 6

My mom always told me to bring an extra pair of underwear on vacation, just in case. So I always have; on week-long trips, I’ll sometimes even bring two pairs. I’ve never, ever needed that extra pair of underpants. It’s always come home with me, the last one in the ziploc underpants bag, and I’ll throw them in the wash ...

so metal.

Last night, Matt and I saw Anvil at the Parkway. If you loved hair metal (and who didn’t?), see it. It’s fantastic. I intentionally got up an hour earlier this morning so I could work a half-day and get on the road. We have plans to go rescue Lauren from work at 1am tonight, and tomorrow we’re going to see ...

the travel update 4

ITEM THE FIRST: Our Jamaica travel journal is finally complete. It was really hard to go back and look at all those photos again! Sigh. ITEM THE SECOND: I bought flights to Vegas for Kate’s birthday. (Hobbit Travel can be relied upon for awesome deals.) Now I have to talk to our landlord about his properties there, because it’s possible ...