This has probably been the craziest two trips of my life over the past two weeks. I was first on the west coast attending a wedding for my Cali cousin Michelle at this amazing place in Healdsburg, California. We met with friends and family over this extended weekend and saw much of the Sonoma Country Wineries. It was great to attend such a great event with such good company even though the room Will and I shared had scary porcelain cats that where placed by the fireplace to glare at you. Getting back to the San Fran airport was even pretty cool since we took the Oakland bridge which gave a totally different prospective coming into the city rather than taking big red across the bay. As for my family getting back to North Carolina, it was pretty easy but as for me and Jen it would be a total read more…
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Back in the land of rules.
October 27th, 2009 by
Michael in Raleigh, NC
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Blame it on the rain…
May 14th, 2007 by
Michael in Basel, Switzerland

Saturday was our final day in Holland so our host friends decided to take us north of Amsterdam to visit a small cheese shop and a clog museum. We packed all our things and the four of us crammed into a mini Daewoo large enough to fix two kegs of Heineken beer. On the way I was pretty excited to see the arena where the national team of Holland plays futbol but I would have to leave seeing a game for the next trip.Going through the cheese room, the tour guide was very impressive as she kept changing languages on the fly to accommodate for all the people. She also reprimanded anyone who tried to come through the door into our showing. She just shooed them off and told them to wait until the next tour, one man kinda seemed insulted but she just carried on with her multilingual lines. read more…
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New to the Netherlands
May 12th, 2007 by
Michael in Leiden, Netherlands

Ahhh…so my craving for some travel has been fixed once again. On Wednesday I left with my sister bound for Europe. We both left from our respective homes, me from Greenboro and her from Raleigh where we would rendezvous in Newark, New Jersey. It was a stunning sight seeing the skyline of New York while on approach to the airport but at the same time the absence of the World Trade buildings reminded me of 9/11. Here in New Jersey we had about five hours to kill but as my sister manages our time well, we already had a challenge waiting before us… to find a Post office in the airport. Simple enough you think?? We scoured every corner of the airport asking five different people who worked there for a post office boxes. The answers we got were: go to the continental mail service which really was for employees, read more…
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