Tag Archives: travel

Work, Travel and More

December 12, 2007

It’s almost the end of the year and I’m still working on my Candidacy Paper, which is now due January 1st. Initially it was scheduled to be due next Saturday but I’ve had problems contacting one of the professors who was supposed to give me comments on a draft I submitted a while ago and [...]

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Of Papers, Blogs and Travel Plans

September 14, 2007

I’ve been very busy the last couple of months and will continue to be. Take that as my excuse for not really keeping up with my blog. From today until next Friday I’m in paper-finishing mode, which, as any college or graduate student knows, means that my days will not correspond to the normal revolutions [...]

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Flight Statistics

November 7, 2006

Yesterday while I was flying back from Costa Rica I thought of listing all the flights I’ve done ever since that morning in May 1994 in which I entered an airplane for the first time. Since then I’ve tried to travel as much as I can, and, so, it turns out that I’ve taken 131 [...]

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Pilgrimage to Wrigley Field

May 30, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I visited Wrigley Field for the first time; these are some pictures of the event. There are more and bigger pictures in my gallery; use this link
This is the famous entrance to Wrigley at the corner of Addison and Clark in North Chicago (get map from Google).

It [...]

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