My first trip to the UK with Aimee was a surprise, at least to her. We spent a few fun-packed days in London over New Year’s 2003/2004. The trip was the first in the Doubleperf Era, so you can read all about it here. It was a short trip, between December 31st and January 4th, […]
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UK 2003-04
July 28th, 2012 · Comments Off on UK 2003-04
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UK 2002
July 27th, 2012 · Comments Off on UK 2002
2002 was a peak year for UK travel: for the first (and only) time in my life, I visited twice in one year. First, another spring break trip, this time as part of a trip with my buddy Josh to Iceland. We spent time in London and Edinburgh only, maximizing our time exploring these two […]
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UK 2000
July 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on UK 2000
Having had such a great time the year before, I decided to head back to the UK in 2000, taking advantage of cheap Virgin Airways tickets and another two-week spring break. Brent joined me from Seattle, and we rented a car (a Skoda, this time), and headed up to Scotland. The trip was a little […]
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UK 1997 and ’99
July 23rd, 2012 · Comments Off on UK 1997 and ’99
After the intense and in-depth six months I spent in the UK in 1995, I was ready to return at the next opportunity. My chance arose when I went to Poland in the Spring of 1997 to do research for my thesis, on the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. My flight took me through London, and […]
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UK 1995
July 20th, 2012 · Comments Off on UK 1995
When the opportunity to study abroad during my junior year at Amherst came up, I knew where I wanted to go. I was enjoying Amherst enough that I didn’t want to spend an entire year away, which was how the exchanges with Cambridge University proper worked, but I could study for a semester through a […]
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Back in the UK
July 16th, 2012 · Comments Off on Back in the UK
July is upon us, and Olympics fever is starting to build. I’ve been planning a trip to the UK for more than a year, and it’s hard to believe I leave two weeks from today. The seed for the trip was planted sometime last year when we met Neil and Melanie in Paris, and after […]
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36 Hours in Portland
July 11th, 2012 · Comments Off on 36 Hours in Portland
Our quick trip to Portland last weekend had an itinerary that felt like a kid-friendly version of the New York Times travel column: ride the streetcar, find the fountains (like the one Grace, in her bee suit, is pondering above) and playgrounds, visit the kids’ section at Powell’s, and order something with avocado in it […]
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Back to Amherst
May 29th, 2012 · Comments Off on Back to Amherst
We took Grace to my fifteenth college reunion in Amherst this weekend, and we all had a great time. We arrived in Boston early Thursday morning, and after spending some time with Aimee’s family in Wellesley, we headed west to the Pioneer Valley. I stayed in the dorms while attending the fifth and tenth reunions, […]
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Family Road Trip
April 9th, 2012 · Comments Off on Family Road Trip
By the end of the trip, Grace was able to utter those three words in a row, which made the occasionally trying times in the car seem completely worth it. The trip was a lot of fun, and Grace did an amazing job adapting to days spent in the car and nights in strange new […]
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Road Trip!
March 30th, 2012 · Comments Off on Road Trip!
We’re setting off tomorrow for our first ever family road trip, around California. Since moving here in 2006, I’ve only ever driven as far north as San Simeon, and only visited San Francisco once. This time, we’ll be exploring more of the Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Big Sur, and up to Sacramento before heading back […]
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Sunny, snowy Switzerland
February 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on Sunny, snowy Switzerland
Life speeds on with Grace walking and talking up a storm, a hectic schedule of new preservation projects at work, and a busy fall/winter of photobooth projects. This week I returned from a terrific week-long trip to Switzerland, where I participated in the opening of a new exhibition about photobooths at the Musée de l’Elysée […]
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Marathon weekend
December 1st, 2011 · Comments Off on Marathon weekend
We enjoyed a really nice weekend with my parents in Seattle for Thanksgiving, punctuated on Sunday by a rainy, windy run through the city in the Seattle Marathon. I got my first chance to engage in that age-old Dad tradition, watching a parade while your kid sits on your shoulders. It felt good. We enjoyed […]
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Denver pile
October 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Denver pile
We have a long family history in Colorado, but since Grandma passed away and dad’s childhood home was sold, we’ve had fewer reasons to return as a family. My dad’s high school reunion and the fact that Aimee and Grace hadn’t met much of our extended family in the area was a good excuse to […]
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Alaska 2011
September 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on Alaska 2011
We took Grace on her second trip to Alaska, and her first during the summer, over Labor Day Weekend. She had a good time seeing both my family and Aimee’s (visiting on vacation), and also discovered the world of stairs, since our house has none and my parents’ place has many. She took right to […]
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Summer in the City
June 26th, 2011 · Comments Off on Summer in the City
I spent a three-day weekend in New York City last week, which was a nice chance to see friends, catch some theater, explore the new High Line, and see a couple of movies. I was there to introduce a screening of Upstream (which got a nice write-up on the New Yorker blog), and had some […]