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This time last year, I began to write up my notes from my May-June trip to the Dalmatian Coast with my mom — I posted what I had so far, but it was an incomplete account of the adventures we had, which included but weren’t limited to a giant squid, a rescue plan for a capsized boat, inappropriate flirting, supermodels, secret cliff-top bars, wild animals hunting at night, and bottomless pits of despair.* Today, I still have my notebook, the photos, and Lonely Planet as my guide, and my memories are mostly intact, if not more humorous and condensed (which is how these “blog” things are supposed to be, right?). This may come as a shock to you, but this actually started out as a travel blog. So enjoy.
Click-through for Opatija, Plitvice Lakes, Trogir, Split, Korcula, and Dubrovnik, Croatia, and Kotor, Montenegro. Plitvice and Korcula are funnier than the other ones.
I met my best friend, let’s call her MBF, in my first week living in Austin. Three years later, we’ve moved back to our home states on the east coast. She invited me to spend a weekend with her in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. I didn’t research the city, its restaurants or hotels prior to the trip. I had no agenda. I just wanted to enjoy Charleston her way.
Pleasant trip to the Research Triangle of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. It being my last business trip for this job, I felt the need to make it as typical as possible. For better (and for worse), it was.
Long story short: I canceled an event in Houston on the Monday following Hurricane Ike’s tragic path through east Texas. I could postpone my flight and arrive on Tuesday, but any other changes to my schedule would cost me at least $600. So I went. I landed and immediately drove to Austin, and then on to San Antonio.
Memphis
The Memphis trip will likely withstand the test of time on my memory. In my life, it was the closest I’ve come to getting kicked out of a hotel lounge, it has the deathiest tourist attraction, most tasteless advertisement for wine, and most poor choice of shape for a building not in Egypt.
