Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Tag: travel

  • Graduation Season

    Last weekend I flew back to Maryland for Mark’s high school graduation. I apologize if I didn’t get to visit you; there’s only so much time to visit people on a short trip. Perhaps over Christmas we’ll be able to stay for a bit longer and be able to have leisurely visits with more people.…

  • Boarding Pains

    Everybody who’s flown before is likely familiar with the boarding sequence. First class, elderly and parents with children, military personnel, and everybody else beginning with the back of the plane. For the most part, it makes sense. But thanks to airlines charging fees to check baggage, most if not all of the passengers are bringing…

  • Highlights from Exploring LA

    All of the times I’ve been to LA in the past, I’ve left the airport for somewhere else and hardly looked back. Since we moved here we’ve been meaning to go over there and explore a bit, but it took Kyle coming to visit us from Maryland to make that happen. We managed to hit a lot…

  • Not-Quite-Homecoming

    After living in California for over a month, we’re traveling back to Maryland for our friends’ wedding. It almost feels like coming home, but then it doesn’t, because we’ve had a bit of time to become accustomed to our new place being home. While we’re back, we’re going to be in a madcap dash to…

  • The Stunning Conclusion

    Somehow this ending already got spoiled (must have been those voracious online fan communities), but almost two weeks ago we made it to California. Here are the pics of the final terrain change, where we begin seeing cacti and palm trees in earnest. Heading into the valley we had a twelve-mile unbroken downhill coast.

  • Finally, the Grand Canyon

    After we arrived in Loma Linda it took about a week to get internet access, and the house is finally in enough of an orderly state that I feel okay about taking time to sort through and upload pictures. The Grand Canyon is pretty spectacular. Of course, everybody knows that, and we’ve all seen pictures,…

  • Highlights from Crossing the Southwest

    Highlights from Crossing the Southwest

    On Friday we left Texas and crossed all of New Mexico to end up in Flagstaff, Arizona. We weren’t as efficient as on some of the other days as we made a number of stops. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it ended up one of the better traveling days despite the extra hours on the road. I filled…

  • Chattanooga Sunset

    Chattanooga Sunset

    This is the last batch of pictures from Chattanooga. I was a little trigger-happy with the camera, okay? The sky provided us with a “woah, blue rainbow” experience. I’m guessing the river had something to do with the cloud-free swath of sky.