One of the highlights of living in Colorado was getting a chance to leave the southeast plains and head toward the Colorado Springs and Denver areas to go hiking. I can’t believe it’s already been ten years since Adam and I traveled around the Mosquito Range of the Rockies and did a bunch of high […]
Just before Y2K I had the opportunity to go on a trip to Mexico City and Teotihuacan with my choral group at Nazareth College of Rochester. The trip was incredibly fun and I think an eye-opening experience for me. Having the chance to see another part of the world was incredibly influential; I met a […]
March came and went, and now I find myself defending my dissertation in four days. It’s been a long road, since first coming here in 2004, and a lot of crazy shit has happened, but I’m finally graduating, finally finishing this educational path. It certainly has solidified this ethno-type of work as something I greatly […]
My trip to Cape Breton by way of motorcycle was quite the long haul. In total, I turned 5,739 miles, visiting fifteen states and two Canadian provinces. The majority of my time, however, was spent on Cape Breton Island, in Grand Narrows on the Barra Straight. I also stayed in Glace Bay, Sydney, Christmas Island, […]