Category Archives: Travel

NYC: Day One.

By daz | Published: January 15, 2010
The League of Nations United Nations Building Good afternoon. A quick blog to let you know that I am alive, despite what was a hellish commute to New York City. By the time I emerged from JFK airport, I resembled Homer Simpson when he runs the Springfield marathon in that episode way back years ago. Big [...]
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Preparations complete.

By daz | Published: January 13, 2010
Unfortunately, Pebbles, I’m not sure I’ll get you through customs. Well. Not long now. For better or for worse, I am prepared. My baggage is probably about 5-6kgs overweight so looks like I’ll have to cull. I have all the important stuff including several new Nintendo DS games and a copy of Slaughterhouse 5 to read [...]
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In the beginning

By daz | Published: January 12, 2010
Welcome friends and strangers, old and new. After what seems like an eternity of preparation, I’m almost ready to leave Brisbane for New York City this coming Thursday morning. I’m flying direct to New York via Seoul, hopefully avoiding North Korea’s Taepodong missile ‘tests’. I’m doing an internship at a certain international organisation for two [...]
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