2 pages tagged with "travel"

When I left Seattle, I jokingly told my friend "the first country I'm travelling to is Hawaii". "But it is isn't a different country," she replied. It is. Oh it is. Looking at Maui from the Kula Lodge Having travelled around the United States, I can't say there are many places … read more

This is the first of posts detailing my current trip, which will take me around southwest Virginia, Seattle, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Japan. My first stop was Blacksburg, home of Virginia Tech. I lived in Blacksburg from 1996 - 2009, so it was both familiar and a little alien,… read more