by cwells | 2014-01-27 | Air, Car, Pix, Travel
Gentle readers, I have been taking a few days to get sorted back out after returning from Senegal, Africa. There are so many impressions of my short time there that I am still contemplating much of the experience. To be very honest, what I saw of Senegal was virtually...
by cwells | 2014-01-20 | Air, Transit, Travel
Gentle readers, you may know that I have a daughter who is in Africa from last August to this April, and I had planned to visit her since I moved to Spain. It’s much more accessible here than from the United States, and the flights take about seven hours total, not...
by cwells | 2013-11-06 | Air, Bus, Car, Culture, Expat, Spain, Spanish, Travel, Valencia
(Sorry, folks, this post is without pictures. I promise to make that up to you soon!) I arrived in Valencia about 48 hours ago, and so much has happened since I went through airport security in Atlanta, my head is spinning. My trips through airport security were...
by cwells | 2013-07-23 | Air, Car, Food, Graduate School, Pix, Residency, Train, Travel, Tribe
Yesterday was a travel day. If you are not a person who travels long-distance by plane, then you miss the joy of flying for a number of hours, navigating through airports, eating airport food (some good, some bad), being in close quarters with strangers, and being...
by cwells | 2013-07-17 | Air, Graduate School, Residency, Travel, Tribe
My last residency for my PhD program is in Paris, a city where I have worked in the past and enjoy a great deal. There’s something for everyone in Paris, and the best thing to me is that I get to enjoy it with my tribe! Instead of staying in the residency hotel,...
by cwells | 2013-07-11 | Air, Culture, Employment, Expat, Graduate School, Residency, Spain, Travel
The world is strange. Bureaucracy is even stranger. While I am willing to throw caution to the wind in some carefully considered situations, I know that I must carefully managed other events in my life, or they will manage me. Consider, gentle reader, the concept of a...
