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Award Winning Author Aaron Brownell

Everybody Gets Sick.

This post is a little late in coming. I did say something in the last post about following that post up with some heartwarming story about home during the holidays or some such thing. But, then I got like, super sick, and had some time to think better of that. What probably would have happened…

vern2011

January 12, 2019

Travel

Alabama, coffee and drugs, contiki, drug store, Egypt, heartwarming posts, Imodium AD, international travel, MT Saint Michel, New York, Nile, Normandy, optimism, Paris, Pharaohs Revenge, pharmacies, Road Trip, sick, suck it up, Texas, United States
Taking the Long Way Home.

I had every intention a couple days ago with being able to give you this great end-of-year little US road trip experience. I’m headed back to NY from TX to see mom and dad for the holidays. Having made the drive numerous times, I decided to diverge a bit on the way and see some…

vern2011

January 2, 2019

Travel

apathy, beer, Chicagoland, enjoying life, killing time, laundry, mom and dad, New York, Road Trip, Texas, USA
Decompression.

A sizeable chunk of bloggers on the internet is primarily focused on how to get adventuring. Those that aren’t are focused on the actual adventuring itself. The ‘look at me! I’m somewhere cool’ posts we all like to read so much. For self-inclusive purposes, I would think I best fit into the second category. I…

vern2011

December 16, 2018

Travel

adventure, decompression, Kristin Hughes, Kuwait, Middle East, new novel, Oman, Ubar, writing
English as Your Only Language.

So, I’ve been reading this book called The Timbuktu School for Nomads. It’s helping me keep my head in other places over the winter, before I start travelling again in the spring. I enjoy the story very much, and it makes me think of my own time in the desert (such as it was). The…

vern2011

December 2, 2018

Travel

Bangladesh, bilingual, Brassiere, English, France, French girls, India, Kuwait, Lauguage, Middle East, Nepal, Pakistan, Paris, Peru, Timbuktu School for Nomads
Boxes Of Photographs.

This is a follow up post, of sorts. A little while back I wrote a post about travel photos and wrapped philosophic about what happens to them when you return from vacation. This is an adjacent take to that post. A bit more, present day. Since returning from the middle east, I have found that…

vern2011

November 24, 2018

Travel

Dublin, Egypt, Eiffel Tower, Ex-Pat, international travel, Lisbon, macchu Pichu, Middle East, Nile, Pamplona, Paris, pictures, Pyramids, stonehenge
Kilts, Cabers, and Klans.

Though I admit at the outset of this post that I only travelled across town, and it is a small town, I like to find new experiences in unexpected places. And, I would classify new experiences as one of the primary reasons for travel. So, here we go … Yesterday, in the midst of cold…

vern2011

November 11, 2018

Travel

bagpipes, Barrow Brewing, caber tossing, craft beer, hammer throw, Kilts, Klans, new experiences, pipe and drum, Scottish Festival, Texas, traditional dance
Going Home.

Having come back to America from the Middle East, there was a requirement to head back home and see mom and dad. I utilized the initial couple weeks being back in the USA to handle the things that need to be handle after a year abroad. There was finding an apartment, rifling through loads of…

vern2011

November 2, 2018

Travel

Adirondack, Chicago, desert, friends, Middle East, mom and dad, new experiences, New York, pizza, Texas, USA
A Quick Road Trip.

Faced with a weekend that quickly needed to be filled with something, I decided that it wasn’t too early for a quick road trip. There was a cup of coffee, a scroll around google maps, and a bag to be packed. Admittedly, when I walked out the door I was only 50% committed to my…

vern2011

October 21, 2018

Travel

adventure, Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma, Oklahoma National Memorial, Oklahoma State University, Texas, weekender
Adjusting to the Weather.

It’s been a minute since I’ve left, what had become, my desert home. I have to say that of the small number of things I enjoyed about the desert, the heat would be number one. It’s interesting to me how something like the weather can have a lasting effect on people’s impressions of a place.…

vern2011

October 16, 2018

Travel

climate, desert, dry heat, experience, heat, Kuwait, Middle East, rain, Texas
Excited by Airbnb!

With my tenure in the Middle East coming to a close, I have set my mind on new adventures. My current musing have me, in my mind’s eye, backpacking around Europe. A Europe of the summer type of event. This, as we all know, is not the cheap time to be in Europe. Normally, I…

vern2011

September 25, 2018

Travel

Airbnb, backpacking, euro, Europe, hostels, hotels, international travel, Middle East, new experiences, shoulder season, summer