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I Need About Three Fitty.
My wonderful sunglasses from the 2005 Canada Summer Games swag package finally bit it the other morning. I went to put them on and they completely snapped in half. It was really sad because they were the greatest colour. There was some opportunity within this tragedy though: buying ridiculous Jordanian sunglasses.
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Shisha & Coffee
The one thing about living with 30 other people is that you’re living with 30 other people. 28 too many sometimes. So this evening, Stephen and I went out for a walk around the Suq and then shisha at a rooftop patio near the King Hussein Mosque. It was such a gorgeous night and so nice to have some peace & quiet (as much peace & quiet Jordan can afford to give someone, that is).
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Beginning of ‘Umayri 2012
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind getting here – with emotions ranging from low to high. It’s been hard to think about how Saxon won’t be there when I get home, but there is a lot going on here to keep me preoccupied, so for now, I seem to be getting by fine. The flights were okay, but I definitely couldn’t sleep on them for some reason. In the first week of being in Jordan, I didn’t get a full night’s sleep until Friday night, after a day of digging. It was all 3-hour bursts before that and I’m so glad that seems to be over.
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Geek history was made and I was there.
A couple of weeks ago, geek history unfolded before me. For the first time in 25 years, the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation was gathered at the same place. If you recall, when this was announced, I was pretty excited. And yes, the day lived up to everything it was supposed to be. It was a mess trying to get in. It was a mad cattle drive through the Stampede Corral (now that I think about it, given the name, this was quite appropriate), and then a dash through the vendor area, and finally, I was in the autograph area.
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Dreams really do come true!
Or they might be about to. I point you in the direction of this page. Go on. Click. And then come back. I’ll wait. … … … … … … DID YOU READ IT?! Oh. My. God. Not only is the whole cast reuniting, but THE WHOLE CAST IS REUNITING AND THAT INCLUDES SIR PATRICK STEWART! I swear to you. Once this year’s Comic Expo is complete, I can die a happy girl. I have loved this man since I was a little girl. I don’t know what I’m going to say to him. A friend posted this on my Facebook page and I’m worried this will happen to me:…
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Full Couches to Empty Houses
Olivia is the world traveller I aspire to be. I met her last year in Jordan, while we were both happily toiling on the top of Tell ‘Umayri. We were friends while working on the dig, had good conversations, but really didn’t get to know each other until we each got home and found much comfort and laughter in several Skype calls a week. She’s one of my favourite people in the world.
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Bulgaria Photos!
You’ll see most of these photos again when I do my writeup on September’s camera over on my Logee Photography blog, but here are all of the non-iPhone photos I took while I was in Bulgaria. For those of you who are curious, these were all shot on Fuji Sensia slide film using a Canon Rebel SLR.
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The End of Solo Travel
As I’m about to leave Bulgaria and head back home, I have something to confess: I’m done with solo travel. It’s not that it hasn’t been fun or that I haven’t learned a lot from it, it’s just that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. If you spend any time reading some of the popular travel blogs, you’ll find articles about how solo travel is great and that really, it’s the only way to travel. Many of these articles will tell you you’re missing out on a new culture by going with a friend, since you don’t get to completely immerse yourself in a culture.
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Goodbye Emona Dirt Roads, Hello Sozopol Nights
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Shopping for Housewares and Epic Baked Potatoes
Laura and I left in the evening of the 18th to make our way – fumbling – to Varna. Broken Bulgarian and several scares about being on the wrong bus later, we pulled up in the bus station in Varna and a short taxi ride away from my hotel and her soon-to-be-home. Laura has done a very gutsy and respectable thing in my book… She’s moving here. A series of unfortunate events left her with nothing but wanderlust and an eye on a new life and having spent a few weeks in Bulgaria earlier this year, she decided volunteering for Balkan Heritage and finding her own path was the life…
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Hot Air Ballooning!
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Goodbye Emona Dirt Roads, Hello Sozopol Nights
We have driven down the treacherous 8km stretch of land – generally referred to as road around Emona – that connects Emona’s remoteness to the coast’s highway for the last time. A quick album cover shoot and a send-off from the hostess of the local pub and we left for Sozopol, another coastal town along the Black Sea. It feels very bizarre to be somewhere where we see other people walking down the road instead of donkeys, cows, and wandering horses.
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Goodbye, Pretty Bird.
Pisco & Paracas
Pregnant Cats, Princesses, and the Rose City
to see the world in a grain of sand.
