Showing posts with label Sputnik&Jade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sputnik&Jade. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2014

It's been a long time...

Since you've seen our smiling face(s)
It's been a long time
Since we've seen a sunny day.

But we don't mind
No we don't
As long as we've got you next to me (us)

Ok, badly paraphrased/altered Cake lyrics aside...it's been WAY too long since we actually did anything on this blog. Sputnik and I are taking action to correct this. We have recommitted ourselves to regular posting. I know what you're thinking. Undoubtably it's something along the lines of "We've heard this before. Two years ago you said this same thing and nothing changed. You've had this blog for years now and we've only seen a handful of posts. You guys suck at blogging!" Or maybe that's not at all what you're thinking. Maybe you're ticking off types of cheese in your head or rehashing a recent fight with your lover or planning your supreme take over of the world. I wouldn't know. I'm not a very accomplished Occlumens. 

Anyway, this time we're for real. We have a plan and intend to carry it through. We've actually even set up strategies for ourselves to make it happen. And we're informing you so you can bug the crap out of us if we don't keep our word. So from now on you should expect new posts every Thursday. 

Some will be by me (Jade) alone, some by Sputnik, and some by both of us. From me you can expect several posts chronicling the trip I just took with my visiting parents around Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe as well as a few musings on travel in general and trips I'm in the process of planning. I won't speak for Sputnik but from the two of us you can expect to hear about the trip we're planning for the end of this year/beginning of next year, a false start trip we were thinking about and the trip we're planning for 2016 (this one is a small but super exciting). 

For now I'll leave you with a picture of a lion picking its nose. See you next week!

~Jade
Mmm...boogers!

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Criminals

Tonight was the last chance for us to hang out together while we were both in Seattle. And what did we do? Went to the airport of course!

The night didn't start out that way. But after seeing an outdoor performance of Henry V (great production by Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden O and beautiful direction by George Mount) we realized we needed more time. We tried to go to a bar but found nothing pleasing so instead ended up at the airport. 3 bucks to park while we discussed travel plans seems pretty good.

We discovered after arriving that we probably shouldn't have been there since neither of us had a ticket for tonight, although Sputnik will be flying to DC on Thursday and Jade will be flying to Philly a week from Saturday. The sign above informed us of our criminal nature.

Oh well! We discussed how when Sputnik wins the power ball we'll do this again, getting on the next plane that's leaving. Let a steel bird transport us to a far away land with no expectations of what lays ahead.

Now we're sitting on Jade's brothers' couch reading a Lonely Planet Southern Africa guide, discussing what we might do when Sputnik comes to visit Jade in Botswana. Hard to believe she'll be in Africa in just over a week!

~Sputnik & Jade