Spring Skiing in January!

So this weekend we decided that instead of trekking all the way up to NH or VT for skiing, we would stick close by and check out Mount Wachusett. It was an absolutely picturesque day much more fitting of late spring skiing than late January! It will be a couple weeks before we get a chance to head back up to another mountain, but I think we will be heading towards NH this time.

In other big news, Friday was the last night of the Tonight Show with CoCo. It's sad we had such a great show going and now we have Leno back and no Conan at all. The finale was awesome with great guests and of course the Will Ferrell and friends version of Free Bird was a great way to end the show, especially with Conan rocking out on guitar.

Also last night we saw Up in the Air. It sure hit home with my frequent stints in the airport and my frequent flying! American Airlines and Hilton certainly got some good advertising out of it! I think even though I feel like I fly tons, I certainly won't be hitting 10 Million FF miles in this lifetime! Great movie though.

Off to DC next weekend!

Guess who's back... back again...

It has been about 6 months since I've added anything to this blog, and I feel it’s about time to get back into it. It feels like I really have been all over the place in the past couple months. When I looked at my old entries, it took me a while to figure out what direction I wanted to go with this blog since I'm no longer searching the world for future Rollins students. I am however continuing to travel the world and do things that I really enjoy, just from a different setting!

This fall I moved up to Rhode Island to work and recruit students internationally at Roger Williams University, but that is not what I feel like writing about. I traveled to some cool parts of Latin America including a new country and a couple new cities where I hadn't traveled before. I went to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, which was a new destination for me, as well as Mexico City, Mexico and Guayaquil, Ecuador. I met some good people along the way, spent some time on the beach in Montañita, Ecuador. Basically I really enjoyed my time down there!

The last couple of months have gone by way too fast and 2009 ended faster than I expected. 2010 has kept up the pace and before I know it, we’ll be in April. This spring I am continuing on my world travels with visiting the two most populous countries on Earth. I will be traveling to both India and China in February and March respectively. These are two places that I’ve been hoping to go for quite sometime, so I’m quite happy that 2010 is the year that I get to take advantage of that

My travels haven’t been limited to outside of the country. I have spent sometime in ATL, DC, around RI, and FINALLY out to the mountains in NH to get back on my snowboard after 5 years! Last weekend I went to Gunstock and this weekend I hope to check out either Sunapee or Loon Mountain. This is something I was really missing living in FL, so I’m glad I can take advantage of it now that I am in New England.

Last but not least, I am also starting to brew my own beer! Thanks to a wonderful Christmas present, I have bottled my first batch and get to taste it in less than 2 weeks! It is a Belgian style Witbier that is sitting in bottles and carbonating naturally. In the barrel is an IPA that will be ready to bottle when the other is ready to drink. This is pretty exciting to be since I have been touring around various microbreweries and have wanted to try it for the past couple years.

So I guess what I decided to write about is my travels and what goes on in my life. I think that I get to see and do cool stuff, so I should share it. I'll see how it goes and if that doesn't work, I'll try something else!

I’ll do my best to not be a stranger…happy 2010…