Category Archives: travel

PHOTOS: Iowa City in the Rocky Mountains

Spent a long weekend in the Rockies with many of my best friends, most of whom I lived with in a big house in Iowa City during college and had immeasurable fun: great hiking, awesome weather, and good times catching up with old friends as if a day hadn’t passed… Continue reading

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Crowdsourced Mobile App Waze, ABC7 to Help Angelenos Beat Carmageddon

TweetCrowdsourced social mobile traffic app Waze‘s partnership with KABC-TV hit the wires this morning (press release below / Techmeme link). Here’s the story and video from ABC7. WSJ, NYT, Reuters, and Fast Company are already on it. Video and press assets can be found here. Some other goodies: * Carmageddon promo * Carmageddon … Continue reading

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Hiking Camelback Mountain’s Echo Canyon Summit Trail

The summit trail to the peak of Camelback Mountain is deceiving — it’s only 1.2 miles from the parking lot to the top. But a steady elevation gain (1,300 feet total) on a trail of boulders and loose gravel makes a rather strenuous adventure. Continue reading

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SXSW 2011 Highlights

With all of the networking opportunities, free food, drink, and music, and friends – some of whom i only see once a year or so – i’m glad i took advantage and visited the great city of Austin. It was a whirlwind four days but the photos and video below provide some flavor. Continue reading

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Photos from Denali and Alaska to Oregon Road Trip, Summer/Fall 1997

Immediately after graduating from the University of Iowa I hopped a ride out to Seattle with friends who wanted a quick getaway before they began another semester of classes. I took a job for a few weeks with Aramark at one of the hotels in Denali National Park. It was an incredibly cool job… Continue reading

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Video: TOMS Shoes 1 Millionth Pair Drop at Andresito School, Argentina, 17 Sept 2010

TweetThree short videos from our first shoe drop on the One Millionth Pair trip. Andresito School was one of the original sites TOMS visited in 2006 after Blake Mycoskie and Alejo Nitti launched the movement and made the first shoes … Continue reading

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