Last chance for a true travelblog, as I'm returning to the States soon. So it seems like an entry highlighting my 2 months in Switzerland is in order. It has been amazing to spend time in a quiet, cozy, tight-knit mountain village. It's a place a little separated from the rest of the world, where your main focus is about what is right in front of you, the people, the nature, and you. No politics, no marketing infiltration, no tv, and no pollution, yah. Fresh Air and Sunshine galore. The sports here are awesome, my job involved running rec activities twice [View Full Entry]

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Above the clouds away from the core of the Earth, sits the peak of Mont Blanc. Tallest mountain peak in all of Europe, it sits at 3842 meters above the numberless height of the sea. The entire Leysin American School staff was treated to a day in Chamonix, France (super famous ski resort) and the mountains above it. It was mind boggling to go up there with the new staff I'd just met and sit above the clouds on the peaks of the Swiss/French Alps. I even felt like I was unfairly allowed to see such an amazing sight with my [View Full Entry]

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A hike from Leysin to Les Fers. [View Full Entry]

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Basel, Switzerland ... A day and a half later, after 20 hours of car, bus, plane, train, and tram, I landed in Switzerland, awaiting fun football matches, cobblestone city centres, and foreign languages. My dear friend Dafnah was kind enough to put me up for the week, in her apartment in Basel. There I slept, cooked, kicked back after long days, and low-keyed it and listened to chill music with her. Fortunately, her English is awesome, so my "Schlecht Deutsch" remained that way. When I got out of the house to see the city and the river, it was great, although [View Full Entry]

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Washington, DC American capital, chocolate city, marshmallow center, insensitive governance, brick, Embassy central, the grid, too many suits, metro, sweatin' humidity, Natties, Redskins DC. DC. DC.. DC... DC ......Dark City. Dense Center.. Drug Culture. Driving Circles.. Detailed Corruption. Doles & Clintons.. Drunk Collegiates. Doctored Constitution.. Dick Cheney.......... New York City Big Apple, "City that never sleeps", bums, Wall Street Jews, hipsters, subway trash, tall buildings that hurt your neck, hi-style sexuality, $8 beers, taxiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii [View Full Entry]

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What is travelling, and what is not? Just because I don't pack my clothes into a bag and find a new bed each night, does that mean that I am not a traveller? I choose to oppose that framework, and to say that even the static person can still be the traveller, there still are thousands of personally untouched terrain to tread. There still are thousands of unshook hands to shake in this town. OK, maybe I'm wrong. That's why I decided to get OUT of this town when I finished my winter quarter finals last week. 2 maths and 1 [View Full Entry]

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They say that one drop is a contaminant. Just one drop sets the stage. It serves as the facade for the whole, and doesn't relents. It can't be undone. So be it. [View Full Entry]

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Back to School, Back to School. To Prove to Daddy that I'm not a fool. I've got my lunch, my shoes tied tight. I hope I don't get in a fight, Oh, Back to School, Back to School, Back to School..... School, fun, work, school, fun, basketball, music, beer, Statisticcal Analysis, Hyperbolic Planes, Girls, Football, fear of graduation, open-mindedness in a oft closed-minded world, school, fun, nargila, funk-night, 1 dollar pints, solution sets, new bedsheets, the Co-op. Davis. Sacramento, San Rafael, San Francisco, Davis, Davis... [View Full Entry]

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The cold freeze of Switzerland required drastic measures. Either it was to turn into a freakin snowman, or jump onto a plane to Spain. So be it, I got onto my EasyJet plane and rode south. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Barcelona. Say it with me, "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah". Warm(er) weather, Christmas lights everywhere, and the hustle and bustle of a Mediterranean country I've been missing. Not to mention the chance to spend a 4 days on my own again, and to crash late-night in a youth hostel. For two days with my folks, we saw possibly every existing site of Barcelona, from the Montj [View Full Entry]

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Ah free booze. For some, an unexpected sign that heaven can exist on Earth. For others, a surefire ticket to hell. Today, everything bad in the world was forgotten in favor of all-you-can-drink beer. In breaking news: Rheinfelden, Switzerland The Feldschlösschen Brewery in Rheinfelden was shut down due to a lack of beer. The Rachelson Family took the all-you-can-drink tasting session a little too seriously and was too strong a force for the factory's 90,000 bottles an hour production. Although free food was also given - including fleischekase (german for "meat-cheese" a [View Full Entry]

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