Finally! An Update!

Hello peoples of the internet, long time no see.  How've you been?  I've been well, thanks.  Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, it's time to get down to business.  And first order of business is... an update!

10 months; 15 more countries; 37,738 miles by air, bus, sailboat, and foot (6.3 more of these and I'm at the moon baby!); and I still haven't figured out how to use semi-colons properly.

I finished my globe trotting almost a month and a half ago, but was so caught up with incredibly time consuming, civilization altering decisions (like how to heterosexually accessorize my devil costume for Halloween) that I didn't get around to updating this mal-polished turd.  So, my deepest apologies goes out to all 7 of you out there who might actually read/skim over this :)

After doing Kilimanjaro in early August, my travels took me back through Kenya where I taught English, Math, and Science at a couple of Kibera's primary schools for a few weeks.  By the end of August, I found myself in London and on my way to Cardiff, Wales to visit the gal I met in Australia, trekked with in Nepal, and subsequently worked and traveled with in Kenya.  From Wales, I made my way back through London, under the English Channel, through Paris, across Belgium, and up into Holland for my final few weeks in Europe.  My camera rarely came out of hibernation for the last month or so of my trip to take pictures, but I'll toss up the ones I managed to snap below.

So that leads me to my new life back in America.  I've semi-officially settled into Tampa, Florida and am being enlightened to the weirdness of the city each and every day.  It's a lot like slowly cranking up the juice on one of those adjustable brightness lights in a dark living room, only this light is in an abandoned industrial complex and the joint is filled with shoe-licking teenagers, old men dressed in women's lingerie, and neighbors who howl with their semi crippled dog on their porch.  But more on those later!

- Final pictures from the trip -

Kenya

St. Juliet's Education Center - Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya

Wales

Conquered!

Annabel after the hill

I wasn't nearly as alright with the whole running situation as she

London

How Real Men tame lions!
- With a sledgehammer and some tongs -

 Paris

Holland

Uitmarkt - Amsterdam

The Hague

Mauritshuis Art Gallery

Family roots.  Can't wait to see the rest.

Back in Amsterdam

Dam Square - Amsterdam

Don't be an asshole.

Canal outside the hostel

 Back in America

Sorry we were late picking you up from the airport Curt,
Dave and I were stuck in traffic...

Been a while since I'd seen a California sunset

... or a pretty intense workout :)

The only small dog I've ever grown fond of

Sunset from Griffith Observatory

Los Angeles (and a chunk of my finger)

Well dudes, that's it for the trip.  I had a blast, met some really amazing people, saw some nifty stuff, and definitely can't wait for the next one.  In the meantime, I've got Tampa to keep me busy.  And right now, it smells like my meatballs are burning, so I'll get some more posts up later.

P.S.  Oh, and sorry about the carbon emissions GreenPeace.  I'll plant a shrub tomorrow, promise.