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Fall in Pennsylvania

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Fall in Pennsylvania

Even though I spent almost the entire summer and Fall in New York City, I ventured into Pennsylvania a couple times to catch up with friends outdoors and get a break from the city.

Exploring Finland via Train and Water

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Exploring Finland via Train and Water

Back in the spring of 2019, I had the opportunity to visit my then fiancée (now wife) in Tampere, Finland. She was living there for a few months working, and I was glad to get the chance to take a week off from work and spend some time with her while exploring the two largest cities.

Behind the Scenes of Seattle's Transportation Infrastructure

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Behind the Scenes of Seattle's Transportation Infrastructure

A few weeks ago, I went to Seattle on an exchange program with between the Seattle Chapters of Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT). I was able to go on behind the scenes tour of transportation infrastructure throughout the city.

Trip to the South African Museum

Today we went to the South African Museum which was interesting but pretty tiring like most museums. Instead of focusing on just one topic the museum was enormous and covered everything from ancient rock paintings to ocean life to dinosaurs. There even was a planetarium although we did not get

Berg River Dam, Scones, and Khayelitsha

Today was our last trip out as a group for this course which is kind of sad, but it was an interesting day overall. We left around nine this morning and drove through Stellenbosch. Sadly I don't have any good pictures, but our professor told us about his experience at

Lion's Head Hike

After our trip to the Kalahari, things calmed down a lot. I have mostly been in class the past few days. The class is now looking at environmental issues more from a natural science perspective with some economics involved as opposed to from the people's perspective which means I feel

Kalahari Trip: Day 5, 6, and 7

We woke up the next morning at the Kalahari Trails at 5:30 AM and went for an hour long walk around the property. The owners also do a night drive where you get to see some actual animals which is supposed to be pretty cool. Many of the animals

Kalahari Trip: Day 3 and 4

We left from the Oranje Rus Resort around 9:00 in the morning and started to make our way toward the Kalahari desert. We stopped along the way at the Molopo Kalahari Lodge to listen to a Masters student present a little bit about the Kohmani San (identify themselves as

Kalahari Trip: Day 1 and 2

Day 1 We set out at 8:30 AM or so on January 15th from our house in Cape Town. It was bright and early in the morning. We left in two Kombi (VW Vans) along with a trailer. They served us well throughout the trip. We stopped randomly in

Concerts and Memorials

So two days ago we went to a concert at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Macstanley performed and it was a pretty fun time with the other students and even the professors as well. As an artist, he is a pretty standard pop rock star with a nasal voice which fit

Trip from Signal Hill

A few days ago we all went on a trip to the top of Signal Hill. While the weather was absolutely atrocious by Cape Town standards, to me it was still a lot of fun. This was also when the deep freeze was hitting the States, so our 65-70 °F

First Days in Cape Town

So I've been in Cape Town, South Africa for 6 days now and this is definitely top three in the most beautiful places I have ever been. On our first day we checked out the New Year's festival downtown which was good fun. Everybody goes and stands alongside the street