London: Natural History Museum

London has a plethora of free museums, and most of them take more than a day to explore. The Natural History Museum is one such place.

London: Baker Street, Hyde Park and Science Museum

Contrary to some people’s popular opinion, the Oxford comma is not taught in English schools. Not at ours, anyway. The debate rages on, just like the rain that pelted down one Saturday afternoon as we explored London on our own.

London With a Bunch of Men

There’s a reason why I keep alluding to our unpreparedness for school and then refusing to talk about it. We’ll talk about school in a bit. But not now. Now we’re going to talk about the time we had company exploring the city with us. The best company.

Vancouver: Granville Island, Part 2

If you haven’t read my first post on Granville Island, you can check it here (= Welcome back to the lovely little haunt that Adri and I so adore for our (so far) bi-annual catch-up. I’ve done almost all my exploring on this island exclusively with her, really. Today we delve a little deeper into…

West Fourth

I thought of having some sort of inspirational quote about traveling in local parts to start this post off and then I realized that my journeys aren’t super inspirational. They’re just kinda fun and weird and crazy all at the same time (kinda like me, except I’m not always fun).

Vancouver: Granville Island, Part 1

At a recent conference, a professional blogger stood up and shared with her fellow bloggers this valuable piece of advice: Write about the places around you. Write about where you live. Thus this post: Welcome to Granville Island. I suppose I could resort back to the hipster label I gave Gastown but Granville Island has…

Finding Godot

Today after class (first real day of lectures!) I met a girl named Godot who just came from China and was looking for her ECON 101 class. We conversed in Mandarin and English and walked around campus looking for her classroom. She was cute. But I could see her dilemma, because I often found myself…