Ryan and Debi

Tag: travel

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • England Trip – Day 7

    We were surprised at how many things we had been able to fit in at this point.  If you’ve been reading these posts chronologically, you’ll know that we skipped two attractions for various reasons.  This was our make up day.  We started out with a visit to Abbey Road, the recording studio made famous by…

  • England Trip – Day 6

    I drug Steve out to do a little more Sociology-related fieldwork during this day in London – we made the obligatory pilgrimage to the burial place of Karl Marx, Toren’s namesake, at Highgate Cemetery.  Unknown to me before we arrived, there are a number of other famous people buried in the cemetery, including: Douglas Adams…

  • England Trip – Day 5

    Given that this was a work trip, we started the day out properly – we went to a church service so I could do a bit of ethnographic field work.  I had big plans for visiting a variety of different churches to get a sense of the variety within the Church of England.  But what…

  • England Trip – day 2

    I arrived at Gatwick airport around 8:00 am, relatively unrested (thanks to my talkative neighbor).  I quickly made my way through customs, picked up my bag, exchanged some currency, then found the stop for the direct bus to Oxford.  I missed a bus by about 15 minutes, which meant I had to wait another 45…

  • England Trip – Day 1

    While I wasn’t particularly excited to leave for the UK on my birthday, in a sense it was kind of a nice birthday present, so I didn’t really mind.  I arrived at the airport a couple hours before my flight, checked in fine, and headed to the terminal from where my US Airways flight to…