It’s so glorious to feel this kind of happy. Ya know, the standing on top of the world, seeing everything around you… Next to an amazing guy… It’s almost as awesome to remember how much we hiked this one day… Oh, and in case you’re more interested in the pictures than Read more…
In case you were curious, this post is because I am so so SO tired of working on my class! I’ve spent oh… 15 hours or more(?) working on it this week. It feels like way more. And Matt is out of town until Saturday night. I don’t really know Read more…
So…. this has nothing to do with my trip to Greece and Turkey. I still need to put up some pictures from Turkey so you can see what it was like. However, this last week I went hiking in Yellowstone and the Tetons with a fabulous guy named Matt Schultz Read more…
Life is a smidgen interesting right now. I think — hope!– that it’s because I’m at a very transitionary point of my life. Tomorrow I leave my full-time employment of over two years. I’ll be going back to school full time. I will be a university professor this fall, responsible Read more…
Welcome to Turkey! So I got out of chronological order a little bit, but that doesn’t matter. This is my blog and I can write in whatever order suits my fancy, right? And sometimes different stories are just more compelling. Remember last time how I talked about the awesome humanitarian Read more…
So this post was actually written on July 1, 2010 but for whatever reason I didn’t actually post it. Enjoy!I got a job! Just in case I didn’t already have some for Fall… (aka teaching and most likely being a TA as well). In addition to those, I will be Read more…
One of my favorite moments on tour this year was the day we did our humanitarian work (July 16th). Part of what we do as Clog America, besides representing the United States of America at international folk dance festivals, is we select a humanitarian project for a country we visit. Read more…
… waiting for the bus to come. The next phase of our tour involved getting from Athens, Greece to Istanbul, Turkey. It doesn’t sound that difficult, right? To forestall any Greek transit strikes, our bus was coming for us from Turkey. Word on the street was that the bus ride Read more…
Tourists, let it be known that on the day of July 8, 2010, you were out-walked, out-pictured, and out-toured! Joni, Nikki, Sarah and I powered through Athens from morning till night, visiting everything from the Acropolis, the Theater of Dionysus, the museum, and local vendors to the ancient Agora, the Read more…
We have this dance we do called “El Cumbanchero.” We don’t very much like it, so we decided to add some enthusiasm to our performance of it by dubbing it the “My Hat is AWESOME!” dance. It helps. We did this dance a few times on tour, once in Athens and Read more…