jollyhippo's blog

The Yearning! The Yearning!

jollyhippo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:42:36 -0700

Well, there is much to update on! First, the program. While, like any other, it has its annoying administrative hitches where you sit there scratching your head and thinking, "Really? There's no other way you could have tried to organize this?" for the most part it's been great. My suitemates,...

Zombies in Budapest

jollyhippo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:37:47 -0700

Alright, so I'm not going to expend as much effort on my travel blog this time around, but I still want to get it out there, so excuse the lack of cohesive narrative structure and "zing", please!

So! Budapest! Budapest is beautiful, in a very strange way. Many of the buildings aren't in the...

FINAL INSTALLMENT of LEAH LUGS CRAP AROUND THE WORLD!

jollyhippo — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:17:56 -0700

LEAH LUGS CRAP AROUND THE WORLD

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

Weeks 44- 52- Prehistoric Birds and Drunk Oy Gevolts in Australia; Gigantic Ice Cubes and Drunk Irish Paddling Pools in New Zealand; Howling Winds and George Dubya Bush Drunk on Kava in the remote Fijian Islands; and Dealing With Big Intrusive...

The Apocalypse in the Form of a Blog Post

jollyhippo — Sun, 06 May 2007 01:40:06 -0700

Okay. So. After having safely arrived back in Western culture, I've spent my first five days in Australia trapped inside typing my stupid blog. It took forever and now that all is said and done, has come in at just under 60,000 words. That's about 125 single spaced pages. It's not just ridiculous,...

More in the photo bombardment

jollyhippo — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:55:23 -0700

Why hello there. After a long absence, I am finally writing more for LEAH LUGS CRAP AROUND THE WORLD. Buuut it will take a long time to write, so in the meantime, here are photos from Cambodia and China, with links to the best ones below. Enjoy and get ready for verbosity soon!

Cambodia- whole...

Phototastic!

jollyhippo — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:46:30 -0700

Hello all! No time for a massive update, but I thought I'd post the links to my India and Thailand photos as a tideover. They'll be on matador themselves once I get home in um... July. Hope you're all well. Off to Vietnam!

India:
http://travel.webshots.com/album/558098827seZerH

Thailand:
http://travel.webshots.com/album/558246268UhubmS...

Weeks 26-32 The most massive update in the history of mankind

jollyhippo — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:27:02 -0800

Well hello friends, family, admirers and random people I've met on the road and forced to take down my blog address by pain of death. Welcome to weeks 26-32, seven weeks (inclusive) of all wondrous kinds of glamorous crap lugging and an awesome (in the god-way) dearth of showers (don't worry, I masked...

More Tide Over Photos for the Hungry

jollyhippo — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:23:17 -0800

Hi All! I'm alive, I swear, and you know me, I don't swear very effectively. Just dropping a line to guilt you all into looking at my latest batch of photos. They are right here:

http://travel.webshots.com/album/557389309RXSPij

Now go! Look! Be very jealous!

A full update will be coming...

Weeks 21-25: Endings, Beginnings, Death, Resurrection, and Lots of Chocolate

jollyhippo — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:12:38 -0800

Why hello, and welcome to weeks 21-25 of LEAH LUGS CRAP AROUND THE
WORLD, a chunk of fascinating, amazing, and simply mind-blowing weeks
of goodbyes, hellos, and mistaken death. I come to you today from an
Easy Internet Cafe off Las Ramblas in Barcelona, where surprisingly I
haven't run into a...

Weeks 18, 19 and 20- Crazy Flatmates and Feasts O' Plent

jollyhippo — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:49:24 -0800

Gobble gobble gobble and welcome to this, weeks 18, 19 and 20 of LEAH LUGS CRAP AROUND THE WORLD. These past three weeks were what I would call the eye of the storm, meaning that I was burnt out on going out and instead spent my time watching movies and eating pasta (activities usually reserved for...

Weeks 15, 16 and 17- Stupid Bureaucracies, Stupid Language Barriers, and Lovely Drunken People on Buses

jollyhippo — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:18:14 -0800

Well hello, long time no see! I apologize for the horrifically long update absence (ahem 3 weeks), but I have been incredibly busy lately dealing with stupid bureaucracies, stupid flatmates, and yes, lovely drunken people on buses (am I being title-repetitive?). As always, here is my summary of the...

Weeks 13 and 14- The Blues, 10K Runs and Ancient Indian Aunties

jollyhippo — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:03:43 -0700

Hey ho ladies and gents and welcome back to weeks 13 and 14 of LEAH LUGGING CRAP AROUND THE WORLD. These past two weeks crap lugging has been replaced by:
1) A 10K race
2) Smoky blues clubs with drunk Jerry Springer women
3) My arm nearly falling off thanks to incredibly painful and expensive...

Weeks 11 and 12- Parties, Treadmills, Drunken Fools, and Indians with Poor Mexican Accents

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:57:11 -0700

Why hello there, I didn’t see you come in. Welcome back to LEAH LUGS CRAP AROUND THE WORLD weeks 11 and 12, two marvelous weeks in which I rediscovered London and generally harkened back to the wild city adventures of my study abroad days, or perhaps it is more accurate to say “nights” rather...

Weeks 9 and 10- Cleaning Ladies, Football, Stunning Cliffs, and Farting Horses in the Aran Islands

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:55:17 -0700

Ho ho ho and a bottle of rum! Hello folks, kiddos and kiddies alike, and once again welcome back to weeks 9 and 10 of LEAH LUGGING CRAP AROUND THE WORLD, an eventful week in which I lugged my own crap through various countries, as well as the crap of my friends. So let’s just jump right into it,...

Weeks 6, 7 and 8- Aaaaaaaand she’s back

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:53:21 -0700

Why hello there, I didn’t see you come in. Welcome back to LEAH LUGS CRAP AROUND THE WORLD, weeks 6, 7 and 8- three adventuresome weeks filled with intrigue! Drama! Tears! Laughter! And, as has seem to become my fate, faggots http://community.webshots.com/photo/553722615/2979772770068009512aBMNJc....

Week 5- [Insert creative title here]

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:51:12 -0700

Welp, to quote the belly of that girl Jerry once dated in a (middle-series?) episode of Seinfeld, “HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO! La la la la!” and welcome to the fifth week of Leah Lugging Crap Around the World. The first notable event from the week occurred just after I sent the last addition of LLCATW...

Week 4- That’s right, our 1 month anniversary. Awwwww!

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:49:28 -0700

Hello once again my friends and welcome back for Leah Lugs Crap week 4. I’m happy to report that there wasn’t actually that much crap lugging this weekend, even though my crap did continue to fall apart. I have, however, reached the point where I no longer care to fix my crappy crap and am now...

Week 3- Everything Falls Apart… Well, My Belongings Do

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:46:41 -0700

G’day, and welcome to week 3 of Leah Lugging Crap Around the World. This week really WAS very much about lugging utter and complete crap as every one of my most important possessions fell completely apart at the most inconvenient of times. On the day I was late for work, my backpack disintegrated...

Week 2- Settling In, Flour Bombing Fun

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:44:01 -0700

Huzzah, and welcome to week 2 of Leah Lugs Crap around the world. As I’ve quickly settled into my life back in London, the crap of choice this week has been groceries, but we’ll get to that in a moment, my dears, as the Grocery Incident came only yesterday, and there are many more adventures from...

Week 1- Let the Crap Lugging Begin

jollyhippo — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:40:56 -0700

Week 1
Day 1… and little bit before Day 1 as well…
Today’s Subject: My Thirty-Pound Penis
And they’re off! Well, she is. Welcome to Day 1 of Leah Lugs Crap Around the World, which conveniently abbreviates into a nice play on words/subliminal message- LLCARTW. After months of planning, weeks...