I want to clarify something so all y’all don’t get the wrong idea. Some people have referred to me as a seasoned traveller, and that as such, I’m a good packer which is by many accounts true. I can go on a week’s vacation with a single duffel bag and not feel a pinch1, I […]
I’d traveled before this trip: over the States and into Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, the UK, France, Scandinavia, college – you get the idea – and I’d never had culture shock. Granted, I’d never stayed in a one-room hut with 30 other people in the middle of the jungle, but these places were, um, different in
I’m back in North Carolina for the first time in over five months. It’s not that long a time, but it certainly feels like an age. Things look the same, and I still generally know my way around. I had dinner with Beth and Brendan, and things immediately reverted to our old college ways. I’m
Something that’s decidely unnerving about being back in the states is the view around. Walking around Scotland — everywhere except Glasgow, really — there are rolling fields, old farmhouses, building dating back to before there was a Pennsylvania, and even in the middle of Edinburgh you could look down the hills of some streets and