Category: travel
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Uber Can Do Anything As Long As We Buy What They Sell
Uber is a private company. They set pricing, company values, and customer service. If a company run by a pretty awful bro turns a blind eye to assaults, has no respect for consumer privacy, and touts a price-gouging (dynamic) business model, then make the decision to not support them. Like every other private company, they will only be around as long…
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Why I wanted to be a RDU Baton holder
I am the RDU Baton holder on instagram today (@rdubaton) and I plan to use it as a soapbox for multimodal transportation, sustainability, utilizing urban space better, the need for public art, and so on. The mission of the RDU Baton is to showcase Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and the surrounding communities. We’re supposed to “show off…
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Canoe Camping Trip! The Roanoke River Platform System
6 of us set out towards the North Carolina coast last Saturday with beef jerky, whiskey, sleeping bags, and miscellaneous supplies (I’m not going to list them like I did for Puerto Rico, but it was similar). We met Heber of Roanoke Outdoor Adventures (highly recommended) with the canoes, loaded our gear, and paddled out. The…
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Puerto Rico Pictures
Arecibo Somewhere inland, off the Ruta PanorámicaRight on the beach in San Juan. A lot of the buildings looked like this. The cemetery in Old San JuanRhea and I in Old San JuanStreet vendors machete’d the top of coconuts off and stuck a straw in it. Later we smashed them in the street to eat the…
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Travel Map
I have been keeping a google map of all the places I have been as well as starring favorite places–which I need to catch up with–and thought I should share it with you. You can view the map here. As you can see, I’ve traveled quite a bit within the United States, mostly in the…
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Puerto Rico Trip + Lists
for the next week: 1 backpack, 0 laptops What I packed: Clothes: straw hat, vans hat, rain jacket, underwear, socks, bikini, board shorts, cut off shorts, edmund jeans, belt, blue polo, button down, blue sweater, 4 v-necks, 3 cutoff t-shirts, running shorts and shirt, nikes (these or these would have been better), and vans Other: toothbrush…
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Animal Behavior: Collective Movement and Shapeshifting
Animal behavior is fascinating – how are thousands of birds or fish able to communicate with each other well enough to swirl and bank in perfect harmony, creating vortexes, undulating lines, and spheres. The underlying theory is that individuals take cues from their neighbors on where to move next. This collective movement acts as a…
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NYC
I just booked a flight to NYC for my birthday in July! This might have to be an annual trip – I have been in July at least 4 times since 2007. New York is a great example of population density, public transit, architectural styles, racial and linguistic diversity and large central parks. I could lose myself in…
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Savannah, GA
I was in Savannah over a long weekend and I can’t stop thinking about it. The layout of this city, America’s first planned city, is superb for getting around town quickly – especially on a bike. (It was a little rough on the cobblestones but next time I might take a wide, knobby-tread bike instead of my…
Catherine R. Hofmann 