April’s Travels
Kara almost had a heart attack when she saw that I was writing a blog post. Anyway, I figured I would give an update of what has been going on recently. Work has been fine lately. This month was pretty full as far as travel is concerned. A couple weeks ago I was in San Francisco. On my off time, I went around and saw the Golden Gate, Point Bonita Lighthouse, Coit Tower, Lombard Street (a curvy road with a 100 foot elevation change), Municipal Pier, Pier 39, & the Marina Green Park. San Francisco was a cool city to visit. The last day of the trip was interesting. I got up on Friday around 6:30am, finished up everything for work in the afternoon, and did some final sightseeing in the evening. I took the red-eye at 11:00pm pacific time, landed in Atlanta at 6:30am eastern time, then left Atlanta, and landed in Nashville around 8:45am central time on Saturday. As crazy as it sounds, if I need to go to the west coast in the future I would probably prefer the red-eye on the return trip over waiting till the next day. It just seems like such a waste to burn the next day on travel alone, when you can get in the next morning and still be able to do stuff, albeit drowsy. Anyway, if you want to see the pictures from this trip, see the San Francisco album in the gallery.
So this last week, I also had to go to Atlanta. Kara tagged along as she wanted to see a number of people she knows there. We also wanted to go see some stuff together. On my off time, we took the subway into town and went to the World of Coca-Cola museum (since I had never been), Centennial Olympic Park (well we walked just outside of it as there was a private event that day that had it closed), and the Underground. I don’t know what the big deal is about the Underground. Maybe it was cooler in the past, but I wasn’t at all impressed (this was my first visit). I am not being judgmental since Kara agrees with my opinion. In fact, I would not be comfortable going there at night. There weren’t even any cool places to shop. For example, there was this store that said it had items “as seen on TV”. We thought that was interesting, so we went inside. It turns out this store had knock-offs of the items “as seen on TV” (i.e. ShamTowel instead of ShamWow). How pathetic? We also went to Stone Mountain. It was a lot of fun despite having developed some kind of sinus illness half-way through the trip. Towards the end of the trip Kara was also feeling under the weather. Needless to say, we were both tired and glad to get back home. To see my pictures from this trip, visit the Atlanta album in the gallery.
I’ll end on one final thought. I already mentioned this in a previous Facebook status, but I will relay the idea for any non-facebookers. I found out last Sunday that I will be going to Manchester, England for 4-6 weeks in June for work. Apparently, most of the people involved with the project my boss and I will be working on are in Manchester. Therefore, we are going over there. I don’t know if it is going to be six weeks all at once or two weeks there, two weeks home, two weeks there. Either scenario, Kara wants to go with me. We’ll have to see how long our budget allows her to tag along for. We would like to use some vacation time and travel through Europe while we’re there. Luckily, we have some money saved up; we just have to decide how much we want to spend (it could get expensive quickly). I hope these plans don’t fall through as I have wanted to return to Europe for a while.
