This post is part of a series called Senegal 2018 We woke up a bit early in Dangane, hoping to catch the sunrise. The horizon was cloudy, so instead we watched the birds swooping out over the marsh. Three kingfishers came to take a bath in the pool, and numerous other birds were in the…
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This post is part of a series called Senegal 2018 This morning we were off to a much better start. Kat was feeling better and was able to have some bread at breakfast. We started the day by hitting up a grocery store before driving to Dangane. The drive was smooth – we think Bala…
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This post is part of a series called Senegal 2018 Today was a bit less fun-packed than days past. Kat came down with some stomach trouble overnight, and we spent most of the day in the car traveling from Saint Louis to Kaolack, via Touba. All the car time didn’t help Kat much, with plenty…
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This post is part of a series called Senegal 2018 One of the downsides of a canvas tent in the desert is that they don’t tend to have ultra secure doors. The type of doors that would, for example, keep a cat out in the middle of the night. Aside from our brief cat-terruption, we…
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This post is part of a series called Senegal 2018 This morning we were met by Alex, our guide for the week. First stop was the morning market. We ate the Senegalese version of a cheesesteak and then wandered around the market for a while as Alex greeted his favorite vendors. Properly fed, our next…
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This post is part of a series called Senegal 2018 The Super Bowl is coming to the Twin Cities. Perhaps hopping a plane to Africa is an overreaction. But perhaps not. Regardless, we find ourselves in Senegal, the westernmost point in Africa. This trip is a new experience for us – our first time in…
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You should visit New Orleans because, along with perhaps New York, it is that rare city that manages to feel authentic while catering to tourists. It is accessible to the visitor, without being a theme park. It is beautiful and delicious and full of character, without being designed by a committee. And it probably won’t…
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You should visit Hanoi because Hanoi doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t care about your worries, your hopes, or your neurosis. But it’s not that Hanoi doesn’t like you. Hanoi is just too busy to worry about you. And for some of us, that’s deeply comforting. Hanoi is Southeast Asia, turned up to full volume….
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You should visit Bogotá because it will help you understand the true meaning of friendliness, hope, and community. As with all good travel, it will give you perspective about your own trials and tribulations and those of your country. And you should go to Bogotá now, so you can go back in ten years and…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 You only find them when you’re not looking. But if you’ve got a smartphone, you can eventually track them down. Our last day in Colombia started in Medellín with packing and tidying our Airbnb. We then wandered down to Hija Mia for, ostensibly, a quick…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 You might be surprised to learn that Colombia gets roughly 70% of its electricity from large hydro power plants. More than 30% comes from a single dam, near Medellín. Building that dam meant flooding a valley, which created a set of newly-lakeside communities catering to…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 A gorgeously sunny morning greeted us when we woke up. We only had a few hours in the morning to explore before until our food tour at 12:30. The walk to Pueblito Paisa seemed like a good way to spend that time. We headed north…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 There comes a point in every trip where you need to just flop around for a while in the morning. Today was that day. Our apartment came stocked with some bread and eggs, so we made first breakfast around 8, brewed a second Moka pot…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 Our last day in Bogotá! We woke up early to hit the Museo del Oro before leaving the city. The museum opens an hour earlier than some of the others, a good enough reason as any to visit. That and it reportedly had an excellent…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 You can’t ignore the mountains that surround Bogotá. For our last day in the city, we decided to get up close and personal with the most famous peak – Monserrate. Rather than doing it alone, we met up with another friend of a friend, Nick. Nick…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 Two days in one, on account of a lack of internet. Before our trip, we connected with a friend of a friend who lives in Bogotá. Colombians are impossibly friendly and welcoming to guests, and Ximena was no different. She invited us to spend a…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia 2017 Before we get to the clickbait title, let’s back up: what are we doing in Colombia? There are a number of answers: we’ve never been to South America, we have Colombian friends back home, and Bourdain did a compelling episode. It’s also the type of…
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We recently visited Berlin for the first time. Because this was mostly a work trip for me, we didn’t do our normal daily-blogs. Blog entries about structure from motion and debates on LIDAR point cloud density would be a bit off topic for this site. We did want to capture our thoughts on the trip…
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