Hey, everyone! This week has been all about monotremes for me. What is a monotreme, you may ask? A monotreme is a type of mammal… that lays eggs! This includes platypus, short-beaked echidnas, and long-beaked echidnas. Luckily, Australia is home to both platypus and short-beaked echidnas, and I was lucky enough to see both this… Read More Monotremes
Hi, everyone, and happy new year! I can’t believe 2022 is over. What a year it had been. Before the year ended, I was finally able to see a dugite – one of the many venomous snakes here in Australia. Neil Hawkins Park One morning, I took the train up to Joondalup to meet with… Read More A Venomous Snake Encounter to Wrap Up 2022
Exploring the Lake Shore Trail (South of Adler Planetarium) On a breezy Sunday afternoon, walking, biking, and jogging along the lake shore isn’t uncommon for the people of Chicago. Some of us, though? We’re lazy. I know I am. Living in the third most popular city in America, it’s sometimes easy to take it for… Read More Lake Shore Trail (South of Adler Planetarium) – Chicago, IL
Kennebunkport, Maine Traveling from Boston to Maine went much better than Providence to Boston. When researching travel ideas in Maine, I happened upon whale watching tours. I’ve never seen a whale in real life and for $48 (First Chance Whale Watch), I couldn’t pass the opportunity. Blue skies dusted with clouds encouraged us on our quick… Read More Whale Watching in Maine
How much is too much when it comes to traveling? Not having seen my good buddy Mike in half a year, we wanted to take a trip together somewhere. He had been living in Australia for the past several months, and I was working in Chicago. Well, ideas became plans. Our destination needed to be… Read More How to Decide If Plane Tickets Are Too Much
Initially, the flight was going to be from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts but herein lies the trouble with flying standby: it’s never a guarantee you will get on the flight you want. The night before we were leaving for Boston, we looked up the flight schedules to see what they looked like. D.C. to… Read More Travel Glitches from Providence, RI to Boston, MA
pre-flight Kevin and I bought our tickets on December 30th to take a trip to Dubai to a) see Kevin’s good friend Ken for his birthday, and b) ..well, to go to Dubai. It’s all felt very surreal up until this point, because I’ve only been outside of the country once and it was to… Read More Spending a Week in Dubai