Category: travel
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PEACE Alternative Break – day 2
Our second day in Southeastern Florida was mostly spent volunteering at Horses for the Handicapped. We did a variety of things while there, from painting to picking up rocks to grooming horses, but mostly we cleaned up horse feces. Horses defecate a lot. I was happy to help, but I’ll be happy if I never…
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PEACE Alternative Break – day 1
My work efforts over the last 2 1/2 years since I started at UT have been focused almost exclusively on two things: research and teaching. Something I have done very little of is volunteering. When our service program on campus issued an email asking for faculty volunteers to serve as advisors for service trips, I…
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Key West trip – day 5
We had originally planned to visit the Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, but with the weather hovering in the 40s, another trip to the beach didn’t make sense. We then thought that maybe we could just bike around the island, as the southeastern side of the island has a great bike trail on it. But…
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Key West trip – day 4
Day 4 of our Key West trip dawned overcast, drizzling, and freezing! I kid you not – it colder in Key West than it has been since 1873: 42 degrees. Of all the times to visit the Keys… Trying to make the most of it, we opted for inside stuff in Key West, with one…
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Key West trip – day 3
Checking the weather, this looked like our best bet for a day at the beach as the temperature was in the upper 60s and it was sunny. So we headed to Bahia Honda State Park, on the recommendation of a friend. We had our regular beach stuff (chairs, umbrella, towel, etc.), but we also brought…
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Key West trip – day 2
We didn’t do much this day except drive down the keys to Key West, which is a pretty cool drive. We stopped for lunch on Big Pine so Debi could participate in a conference call, then continued to our hotel. However, while there we did see some Key Deer: We tried to do the same…
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Key West trip – day 1
A while back my brother-in-law, Mario, let us know he’d be attending an academic conference in Key West in January and wanted to know if we were interested in heading to Key West with him. Always up for an adventure, we agreed. So, Mario flew into Tampa (instead of Key West) and we drove both…
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England Trip
Anyone interested in what I did while in the UK can follow my adventures here (I posted the trip reports on the actual days): Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9
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England Trip – Day 9
Aside from nearly missing my flight, not much interesting happened here. I arrived at Gatwick a bit later than I had hoped, about 1 hour and 45 minutes before my flight. The line to check in at US Airways was quite long, but I met a guy in the line who was on the same…
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England Trip – Day 8
This was our last day of touring around London. As we had visited all of the major attractions that we really wanted to see in the previous days, we opted for two less visited attractions. We started off the day with a visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. For those who don’t know, this…