All the Way Around it

Because Americans have to be different, it’s not a big surprise that we are driving automatic cars while the rest of the world is manually getting from place to place. The few times I’ve attempted to drive manual (thanks Gris) i have failed as horribly as i do when converting Fahrenheit to Celcius, feet to [...]

Awesome 19: Road Trippin

Jun 30 2011 / 9:28 am / Italy

Awesome 18: Everything is melting together, and I’ve lost track of what happened on what awesome day. Here are some pictures from the last week of awesome, in case I missed something:

Awesome 18: Everything in between

Jun 30 2011 / 9:24 am / Italy

America has done a great job of interpreting foods from around the world, giving us the opportunity to experience different cultures via our taste buds. That is awesome. And to be honest, I’ve always believed the American versions of these foods are better then their inspirations. That is, until I got to italy. You all [...]

Awesome 17: Indulge

Jun 30 2011 / 9:17 am / Italy

My dad used this family trip as his first (and last) attempt at booking airline reservations with expedia.com, and we were destined to spend this Awesome day in another series of discomforts, fatigue, and airport food. Thankfully, with the help of my best friends and modern technology, I was able to numb the 5 hour [...]

Awesome 16: Italia!

Jun 29 2011 / 1:18 pm / Italy

We took a day trip to the steaming hot town of Cordoba, and walked around all day looking at maps and learning why people on Spain take siesta. It was awesome.

Awesome 15: Adventura de Cordoba

Jun 29 2011 / 9:28 am / Spain

I love speaking spanish. I’m horrible at it, and almost always say inappropriate things when I speak it, but I like to picture myself as that adorable foreigner everyone likes because she forms her Spanish sentences around her extremely limited vocabulary, providing a hilarious icebreaker for any first encounter. So i’ve been looking forward to [...]

Awesome 14: Me llamo Kait

Jun 28 2011 / 8:15 am /

It’s not every day you get to ride a camel, but one day, it will be. And on that day, I suggest you skip it, because camel riding is not as awesome as you think it is. Nevertheless, Day 13 of Awesome involves camels. But instead of lying to you and saying my camel ride [...]

Awesome 13: The Life you Save may be your Own.

Jun 24 2011 / 8:28 am / Morocco

As you can tell by these photos, I am extreme: I have been skydiving, I can shotgun a beer, I have been sandboarding, and one time I actually [unknowingly] went skinning dipping in close proximity to a shark. So naturally, when the chance arose to go 4-wheeling in the Moroccan desert, I jumped, bringing my [...]

Awesome 12: Get X-treme

Jun 24 2011 / 7:46 am / Morocco

I’ve learned that when someone in Europe says its going to be 40 degrees outside, you really can’t comprehend it until you get out in it and realize that we don’t have that temperature in America for a reason. It’s f’ing hot. But like any great tourist would, we needed to get the full Moroccan [...]

Awesome 11: Lunch with the King

Jun 24 2011 / 6:53 am / Morocco

When the macaroni necklaces and hand-painted dishes no longer seem “cute,” fathers day turns into somewhat of a challenge. What do you do for someone that sacrificed their independence, time, and sanity to raise you into who you’ve become on the day commercialism created specifically to honor them? After 10 years of my awesome, smiling [...]

Awesome 10: Dennis McNally

Jun 21 2011 / 7:58 am / Morocco