Travels Without Miranda, #2: Alcatraz Island, California

Rae | November 30, 2009

Alcatraz Island is breathtakingly beautiful in a barren and desolate sort of way, architecturally graceful ruins blending in perfectly with scrub grasses, trees, and various flowers. Birds abound and, in fact, most of the island is white with guano. It is a stark, foreboding place, but truly beautiful. Some might think me crazy to find [...]

Travels Without Miranda, #1: Tijuana, Mexico

Rae | November 30, 2009

Our journey begins in Mexico, in the border town of Tijuana. I went there just to say I’d stepped foot in Mexico. I was in southern California, crossing Hollywood off my to-see list, and knew that I would most likely never again return to that part of the world, at least not in the life [...]

The Travels Without Miranda Series

Rae | November 30, 2009

I thought that while I’m here replenishing my coffers and not doing much that’s post-worthy, it might be interesting to travel back in time to some of my travels without Miranda. I have selected ten anecdotes from my previous travels which demonstrate lessons I learned about how I should live my traveling life . Some [...]

Sometimes It’s Good to Hang in There

Rae | November 29, 2009

I found out this evening that my sporadic part-time work schedule is going to come to an end in the new year. Starting January 2nd, I will be on a four day on, four day off, two pm to 10pm schedule. I could not have written a more ideal schedule for myself!!! It’ll be enough [...]

Vice-President of This and That

Rae | November 28, 2009

There hasn’t been much going on other than work. So long as I’m only working part-time, that’s all that’s going to be going on. I keep on applying for other work and working contacts for contracts, but nothing has panned out so far. I’m okay with the situation thus far in that I had braced [...]

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