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I finally finished tagging my photos from my family’s trip to Italy and Spain over Thanksgiving. You can view the whole photoset here. As a plug for Flickr, they just upped the uploading limit for free users from 20 MB bandwidth to 100MB and Pro users now have no upload limit.

Here are some of my favorite photos from the trip. Enjoy!

At the Monumento al Vittorio in Rome

My dad being swarmed by pigeons in St. Mark’s Square in Venice.

The picturesque countryside of Chianti.

The pretty sunset in Venice.

The Parque del Retiro in Madrid.

[tags] Italy, Rome, Madrid, Spain, photos, Flickr, travel, Europe [/tags]

This post is coming from a hotel room just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana.
I’m done!!! The ceremony was awesome and the post-ceremony dinner at Top of the Hub in Boston was also great! The next day was not as fun as I spent it packing up my stuff, going to the airport to rent a mini-van, and driving to New Jersey while exhausted.

On top of all of that yesterday, as we had been planning to for a long time now, Francys and I broke up. We decided that although we felt that we were great together, it didn’t make sense to do the long-distance dating things for the next three years or so. Especially with me being her first boyfriend and all. If we’re supposed to be together later on, things will work out that way. All that logical stuff aside, I still already miss her a ton and am looking forward to the next time I’ll be back at Olin (Oct 14-15 for Family/Alumni Weekend) when I can see her in person to hang out as friends.

Currently, I’m about a third of the way done with my cross-country trek to get my crap back to San Diego. In the last 28 hours, I’ve driven over 1000 miles already. I was at Sean Munson’s house in Jersey last night, and I will hopefully make the trek to Grant’s house in Oklahoma City tomorrow night. The goal is to make it back to San Diego on Sunday or Monday.

When I make it back to San Diego, I’ll be picking up my RX-8 on Tuesday!!!!

Alright, enough blogging for now. Time for some sleep so I can do the next leg of the trip tomorrow.

[tags] Olin College, Boston, San Diego, RX8, travel [/tags]

I don’t know about you, but when I was going through my [tag]CNN[/tag] RSS feed and came across this article about a new tomb that has been found in the Valley of the Kings, I got friggin’ excited. I consider myself an Egypt nut and would love to visit the Great Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings someday.

“The tomb contains five or six mummies in intact sarcophagi from the late 18th dynasty, about the same period as Tutankhamun, but the archaeologists have not yet had the time or the access to identify them, the archaeologist added.”

To me, this is an amazing discovery and I cannot wait to find out what new mummies they find. If I had the time, I would definitely continue my work in learning how to transliterate hieroglyphs.

[tags] Egypt, mummies, Valley of the Kings[/tags]