NY Marathon – In Pictures

Carbo-loading the night before the marathon with Hoa, Mike, Rob, Susannah, Emily, Jeff and their family

Hoa took this pic:  me, very tired at 6am getting ready to catch the ferry

Day 8 – Booze, Cruise, Mountain House and Diesel Tries to Put Women’s Clothes on (But Is Stopped!)

After spending the night in peaceful and mysterious Montserrat, we got the car and started driving towards the Penedes region, which is dotted with dozens of cava makers.  Cava is sparking wine, basically Spanish champaigne, but don’t tell the French that.
We stopped at a small cava maker that had very cheap cava (about 10 euros) [...]

Day 7 – I Hate Pepecars and Here Come the Monks

On the 7th day of Barcelona, we gave up our keys to the apt. we were renting in the Poble Sec neighborhood (the name “Poble Sec” literally means “Dry Village.”  Why?, you ask.  I don’t know) and made our way to the airport, where we were picking up a car and driving to the Penedes [...]

Barcelona – Day 6

Everything is pretty calm here though it was touch and go for a little bit. K woke up one morning
stressed out that we weren’t taking full advantage of our traveling because I was sleeping in
until 10am. What was so important? I’ll give you a hint…it involves our credit card.
So we decided to part ways for [...]

Well allow me to retort!

Well, Kelly is stealing the thunder of my post by writing one of her own right after me and because this stuff is sorted by date. Now maybe I would normally let this go, but she took an hour to write that last post while I sat here watching Pans Labyrinth on a projection screen [...]

Day One – Singing Negro Spirituals

We arrived in Barcelona at around 10am and headed over to Barceloneta.  I leave the meal details to Tim who has planned this trip around meals and visits to the markets.
My friend Anna, one of my best friends from my study abroad year in Germany, took the day off to hang out with us.  [...]

Hi from Barcelona

I can’t believe we’ve already been here for four full days. It has gone by very fast. We haven’t had much luck getting our travel computer (which I meant to tell you about earlier) on wifi, but have been checking email and facebook via other computers. Maybe tomorrow I’ll try harder to find a better [...]

bloglovin’

Now you can stalk your fave bloggers via bloglovin’.  All of a sudden, the vast list of random people I began to follow has become much easier to keep track of.  The site also finds blogs similar to those you add to your favorite blogs.

Congrats, Kelly & Seno!

Kelly finished her third and final marathon on Sunday, completing the NY ING Marathon in 4 hours and 24 minutes! Kelly worked very hard to train for this marathon, sometimes getting up at 4 or 5 in the morning on a Thursday to run 20 miles before heading to work so that our weekends were [...]