At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

I couldn’t fall asleep last night so I started making a mental list of trips I’d like to go on soon (as in…over a 5-10 year period). If you know me well, you’re aware that at any given time I am probably thinking about someplace I’d rather be than where I currently am. Here’s a [...]

So there’s this music festival in SoCal. Coachella. You might of heard of it. Started a few years back in October ’99, when I was a senior in high school. When the news broke that the music promoter Goldenvoice was planning a two day concert with Tool and Rage Against the Machine at the Polo [...]

As you can see, I decided to change up this website a little bit. I was getting bored of all the white space that was being wasted, and I’ve wanted a three column layout for a while. I built my stylesheet using the Movable Type Style Generator and got the basic three column layout from [...]

Go read Governor Ahhhnold’s State of the State and Second Inaugural Address. Dude’s on a “California is the best, let’s subjugate all the lesser states” roll. I’m totally glad I voted for him now! This California jingoism is what I want to hear, baby! IMHO, Here’s the best parts of his Second Inaugural Address: And [...]

I have a new roommate. He’s small, gray, and furry. He’s a pretentious little bastard that moved in without giving notice and didn’t even offer to pay half the rent. Mus musculus, in Latin, his name is. We don’t speak Latin in this household, so I’ve yet to ordain him with a proper, American name. [...]

The verdict on 2006? Not as exciting as 2005, but it’ll do. Here’s a recap for all my readers that ran out of more interesting sites to read on the internets: January: In a bizarre turn of events, I somehow thought it would be a brilliant idea to move back to DC. “Why, there’s nothing [...]

This past Sunday I went shooting with my cousin Jason and his friend Danielle. I purchased a Mosin Nagant M91/30 back in July 2004 but never got a chance to test it out because I moved to London shortly thereafter. We headed out to the canyons past Thousand Palms – public land where you are [...]

Er, breakfast really. Before heading to the airport, we hit up In-N-Out at 10:30am so I could have a quick fix before I flew back to DC. The usual: #1 with onions (Gerald and Betty Ford, BTW, used to frequent this very In-N-Out, god bless ‘em.) My plane was three hours late leaving Palm Springs, [...]

On Saturday, Katerina, Diana, Maggie, Alex and I headed up to the local playground, Joshua Tree National Park. Alex goes to Joshua Tree quite often for bouldering and rock climbing and was going to teach us how to climb around on rocks and what not. The poor guy had no idea what he was getting [...]