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While be searching out there with Google you are able to find many travel sites and guides, usually they are the kind of site just providing basic information or made by a local fan that after some years leaves the site unattended.

You know I like travelling to Spain and I was happy when today, trough a forum, I knew of a travel blog about Mallorca, which I visited a few years ago. I hope this will the trend from now on: niche destinations blogs by people living in the area. Just get the idea: up to date information from locals or impersonalized info by Web 1.0 sites? After the time and many posts, the first can be the best source of information.

I think if I do travel there another time I will have a close look to it. The final revolution, which I think won’t take much longer, would be travel pod-casting.

To add on to the post below, I have recently updated my pictures and added a new album directory of Concerts to include all the concerts I go to. I had a wonderful trip to Northern California. Its not as bad as people say it is, what a blessing to know the state isnt a complete mess :P

To start it off, I will talk about the drive up.

4:00am: Leave Thousand Oaks
6:30am: I take over driving
7:30am: Dad takes over driving
11:00am: Arrive in San Francisco
11:30am: Get lunch at Max’s
12:15pm: Arrive at Giants stadium

That was our first day getting there, it was a long drive but a good drive. We later then went to our hotel and had dinner at a seadfood restaurant called Scottlands (I believe). It was good, I had a seafood pasta dish. We went back to the hotel to get some rest.

Sunday came and we started out early. We drove to Sacramento and then went to Bayside Church. I was able to pickup two tickets through my dad for the concert on Monday night. After church, we went back and checked into our new hotel since we switched cities. Right after checking in, I drove up to Yuba City to see Kate and Katie. It was such a blast to see them, it had been too long. Even though it was a short stay, I was able to talk with Kate for a while and hang out with Katie for a little bit. We saw a Memorial Service play at their church and it was good. I wish I could have stayed longer to hang out with Kate or Katie, but that’s okay, it happens.

Come Monday, I woke up later because I was doing the driving home. My dad had an interview so I sat in for that (the first time I had done so). It was very interesting seeing the interviewing process. After the interview we started the trek for some dinner. We ate at Dapheny’s Greek place and then went to Bayside Church.

Ok, two words, SIMPLY AMAZING. I was given the opportunity to see no other than Third Day! Third Day was simple amazing. My opinion is that they have reached and matched the live concert quality of Switchfoot, another band I LOVE to see in concert. You can see the pictures I took at the concert here. They were amazing. God did some great things there. The concert was put on by Bayside Church and World Vision.

Trip Home…
9:00pm: Dad starts driving
10:15pm: I take over driving
3:00am: Arrive home

I’m up in San Francisco and Oakland right now with my dad. We went to a Giant’s game today vs. the Padres and the Padres won. Too bad because that still puts the Padres into first place. We are going to church in Sacramento tomorrow at a church called Bayside and then I’m driving up to Yuba City to see some friends from APU, so it should be a good weekend!!

On a side note, I recently purchased some more domains that I will soon be releasing as a list of domains I am selling. I’m into the domain business now if you didn’t know, so I purchase a lot of domains in hope that one day someone will buy them. I have a current sale pending, so hopefully this will take off for me. I just purchased 4 more tonight which comes to a total of 18 domains. More news to come on this once I get them all setup.

Success! I have finally finished typing up the journalized trip of Europe and Africa. I would have to say it has been one of the most unique experiences of my life thus far. I have been to over 12 countries, but none have as so unique as Egypt. It truly makes me appreciate the United States of America a lot more. The lifestyle they life, the way they survive, and how the world turns for them, is truly unique in itself.

Feel free to take a look at the journal here.

Within the journal you will be able to see image links corresponding to the journal. Feel free to visit the photo gallery of this trip at http://photos.bleakgeek.com. I took about 150 pictures. I had a very good time there in Egypt and Spain. I hope to go again one day.

I had some extra time while here still in Egypt, so I decided to take the time and upload some new images. You may find the images in my gallery, here. There are roughly a new load of 150 images because I wanted to take plenty of images on this trip. Feel free to take a look if you want to, they are pleasent to see :)

Also, I will be posting the log of my trip some time next week. I have a busy schedule this coming week, so I will try to find the time. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Hey folks! Quick update on my trip. My dad and I are currently at our friend’s house, the Cady’s, and we will be returning back to Madrid later today. We will be flying out of Spain into Egypt tomorrow morning and will then spend 4 days there until Monday morning, when we fly out to the USA again.

I am not going to say what we are doing on the trip quite yet, only because I will be posting a whole trip log later next week. I have been logging everyday and will continue to do so. I have taken many pictures as well, which will also be posted here. Keep checking back to see if I’ve posted anything new or to see whether or not I have posted the trip. Stay safe and keep our flight back in mind. What are your thoughts on Spain and travelling Europe? I would like to hear them! Thanks.

Hey Folks. It seems like soccer is winding down. We almost didn’t have a game yesterday. Well, let me explain. We are forced to have at least 6 players in order to play, accordingly to the league rules. Apparently Tyler thought we didn’t have a game after all, so I had to run up to Smith Hall and grab him so we could play. We didn’t play a team that was great, they were only decent. After a while, Nate showed up and we had 7. We played down a player for the rest of the game. We lost 1-4, but it was a fun game. I felt like I played a hard game and I had a good time.

We only have 2 more games. Next week and the week after Spring Break. I have a lot of school work to get done this week and next, so I will be busy and probably won’t have time to post again for at least 2 weeks. I will try to keep a log of my trip to Egypt and Spain and maybe post it after I get home. I have a bunch of papers and homework to finish before leaving for Egypt. I will be returning to the USA on March 28th, so please keep my travels in mind. I hope everyone has a great Spring break, and for those already on it, I hope you are enjoying it.

First off, I just want to start off by saying I just wrote a LONG post and it just got erased. But anyway, I will start the real post.

My life has been REALLY crazy lately. Very crazy. So much going on that I don’t even know what to do. Mid-terms are this week. I had my English mid-term today and my Psychology mid-term tomorrow. So please be praying for me that it goes well (at 2:30pm). After the psych mid-term, I’m going to pick up some tickets to the Jars of Clay concert here at APU, so I am excited for that as well.

My crazyness has been due to school work and getting everything done. I have been getting a lot of my work done early so that I do not have to be stressing about them the day they are due. This is sort of a new idea for me and I am enjoying it a lot. Getting my accounting and Exodus/Deuteronomy done was such a relief. I feel like my weekend was spent getting my homework done, which is okay though. That is the reason I am at school here, right? Anyway, my classes are going well so I’m happy about that.

In my web life, well that is a different story altogether. Recently a High School teacher called me up and asked for my help in a business venture that she wants to start up online. So I am adding this to my plate in the next coming months. Along side of that, I recently was e-mailed by a small local APU band here, to do their site. I’m gladly going to accept it if they choose to use me. But to top it off, I’m still working on the COBS site. My load for COBS was taken off a little bit by a gentlemen in Singapore and he is helping me with the content management system that we will be using, that is good news to me. This is one of the reasons that I have not had time to post on here at all, I’ve just been so busy.

In the mist of all this, I am supposed to live. I am supposed to go to classes and still be able to stay healthy. I feel that I have been sick for the past couple of weeks, so I’m going to try to cool down a little bit. Also, GREAT news about my sister. I’M GOING TO BE AN UNCLE!!! I am sooooo excited for her. I have been dreaming of the day that I could one day make the same impact my uncles had on my life, to my future nephews/nieces.

And finally to top off this post, I am prepping for my trip to Egypt and Spain. We will get to visit an organization called Open Doors of Brother Andrews and see some old friends that I met while visiting Holland. I am VERY excited for this trip and look forward to it with much excitement in mind. I will try to keep a daily log of what we do and post it on here when I get back, but we’ll see how possible that will be. I will definitely be taking A LOT of pictures though, so prepare for some pictures when I get back!

I pray everyone is doing well. Sorry if I haven’t had much time to talk to anyone or stay in contact, but as you read, my life has been busy.

Howdy folks! This is day number 5 for me and I’m really enjoying myself. It’s been [brrrrrr]a little cold….[brrrrr]but I’ve been able to manage it. We’ve been going around doing many different things such as seeing some sites, bridges, parks, Zoolights (I will post images when I return home of Zoolights), and many other things. One day this week we will be going to Seattle, so I’ll post on that later. We’re going to visit some of Laura’s friends and maybe some other family. It’s fun being up here in Washington, it’s been almost 10 years, so it’s good to be back. I’m excited for the semester to start on the 10th…sort of. But overall, I feel it’s been a good trip so far. Hit my cell to catch me on the fly. God bless

Hey folks! I’m up here in Washington now, so I will not be back in California for a while. I’ve been hanging out with my cuz for the past couple days or so and it’s been pretty chill. Runnin’ around doing random things and meeting some of his friends, good times. We’ve watching Nap. Dyn. about twice I think, the food has been incredible here. I’ve been quit excited to see my girlfriend, because I haven’t seen her in a while and that would be nice to see her. She’s only about 30 or 40 miles away right now, but I will see her soon. Washington is quite different than I had expected. (It has been almost 8 years since I’ve been up here, so I don’t quite remember what it was like.) But it’s good to be back here and I’ll probably post 1 or 2 more times while up here. You can still hit me on my cell if you want to reach me or just e-mail me (I will be checking my e-mail periodically at night). Have a fun and safe New Years!!!!