Aces and Eights (Jason Marsell): Travel

Off To Europe!!

Tue, 22 May 2007 04:27:59 GMT

Ten fabulous days and nights in London and Paris!

We leave tomorrow night, at 8:15 (Denver time) on a nonstop flight to London. We'll be in London Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sunday morning, we take the chunnel train to Paris. We'll be in Paris Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We then head back to London, and fly home Friday afternoon.

All in all, we'll be gone from 5/22 to 6/1. The house is on the market, and hopefully there'll be a handful of showings, while we're gone.

We'll take plenty of pictures...See you in 11 days!

Cabo San Lucas

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:11:44 GMT

Cabo was interesting. First off, I have to say, a vacation is a vacation. Regardless of the location, it's always great to get away, and be by the ocean for a few days.

That being said, I don't think I'd ever choose to be by the ocean in Cabo San Lucas, ever again. It is REALLY, really touristy and the local peddlers are over-the-top obnoxious. You can't walk five steps without being harassed by someone selling trinkets, gum, hats, taxi rides, silver, fishing trips, sunset cruises, decorative dinnerware, wooden snakes, braids, meals, or one of a million other things that apparently Americans think they can only find in Mexico.

There's nothing quite like eating breakfast, with a chain of peddlers standing at the foot of your table, shoving silver bracelets in your face.

Other than the constant barrage of harrassment from the local "merchants", it was pretty fun. We did an ATV tour along the oceanside that was totally awesome. Ami and I decided to get separate ATVs, and we had a blast, tearing up and down the beach. You should have seen her flying around on that bike, like a motocross pro...I was totally impressed.

Oh yeah, I ended up pulling an "Evil Kneivel at Caesars" maneuver and flipping my ATV, while being thrown about 10 feet onto the beach. I didn't get knocked out, so fortunately all that was damaged was my pride. That, and the clutch on the bike was a little hosed after I tipped it back over. Glad I bought the insurance! It was a riot, although a little painful.

The food was awesome, too. We ate fish, shrimp, lobster, ceviche, and about every other seafood available for really cheap prices. Most places had beers for $2 and tacos for $2, so we'd sample a whole bunch of different local favorites, and decide which ones were our favorite. If you've never had the chance to try chilaquiles, I highly recommend them. All in all, our eating excursions ended up to be one of the highlights of the trip.

More high-res photos at our Flickr account.

My Google Maps Addiction

Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:17:23 GMT

If you haven't yet been to maps.google.com, it's a sweet way to while away 4 hours, like it was ten minutes. They have satellite imagery for almost every single square inch of land in the United States.

Best part is that they have a feature called "Hybrid", where they take a satellite image and overlay it with street maps. Sweeeeet.

I've attached a few of their images of my favorite places I've been, around the country.

Hints:

Top left corner: The public park that houses the San Diego Zoo.

Top right corner: The place where 747s are born.

Bottom left corner: The tower in NYC adorned with hubcaps, hood ornaments, and gargoyles.

Bottom right corner: My most favoritest theme park in all of the world. An Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, as it was planned in the 1950's.

Holy sheet, it must be late and I must be bored. How cheesy. Oh well, have fun with my silly little "guess the location" game.