I’m writing this in between the two longer legs of this journey. Best thing I can think to do at this point is go all “Things They Carried,” so this post is dedicated to Tim O’Brien. With me now, in my carry-on, I have my laptop, laptop and cell-phone chargers, two spiral notebooks, one medical […]
Moroccan Bound
It is currently 7:30AM and I am aboard the plane heading to NYC. Tomorrow afternoon I will land in Casablanca and I have absolutely no idea what will happen. A surreal feeling washed over me as I took my obligatory picture of the infamous PDX infamous carpet and the moment began to sink in. When […]
One week out
Okay, so now I’m seven days away from taking off. This is also my first full day back in Portland, after being gone for a bit. Is now the time to panic? I feel a little like I should be panicking more, but mostly I’m just sitting around my house, reading. Remember that list I […]
Post #1: 4 Days until air time!
Kia ora (Hello) family, friends, and anybody else reading this. In about 4 days, I will be embarking on a wonderful adventure to New Zealand (NZ), with the purpose of studying biology. The time difference between NZ and California is 21 hours, so even though I depart on January 3rd, I’ll be arriving to NZ on […]
2 weeks out
Two weeks from today, at 0630, I’ll be on a plane taking off from Portland International Airport. We’ll go to New York, then take a night flight to Paris, and finish with a 3 hour flight that lands in Casablanca, Morocco. Until then, I have to say goodbye to my family, say goodbye to my […]