At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Don’t you love how my “New Baku post will be up in a few days” turned into a few weeks? Anyways…When I last left you, Laura and I had just arrived in Baku, the lovely capital city of Azerbaijan, situated on the Western shore of the Caspian Sea. We woke up early and took advantage [...]

That’s literally what September 11 felt like to me. The. Longest. Day. In the past, whenever I told someone that I went to college in Washington, DC, the first question many people asked was “Were you there during September 11?” I always thought it to be a rather odd question, but told them yes, and [...]

The smell of surf wax and neoprene. A double-double from In-N-Out. The taste of salt-water. Homemade tortillas at the Old Town Cafe. The sound of crashing waves. Joe’s Crab Shack at Oceanside harbor. Tanned, happy people. Wiping out. Oh, God, I never realized how much I missed all of it until this weekend. I left [...]