Places I have Viewed: India

Most photographic country in the world. I took a 12 hour train ride into the countryside to a small village (of a million people) to view more life outside of Chennai. People everywhere, staring, they must have thought we were such ugly women.

Hotter than hell we attended celebration, after temple, after celebration and temple. In a way these people know how to live more...than Westerners or Easterners.

Places I have Viewed: Mauritius

The dodo bird used to live here. It looked like good eating, I can see why they snatched them all up. Terrible time on this island- one of those places you just kind of want to forget you went. Too much drinking, lots of lovely views. Tried to snorkel, didn't work.

Places I have Viewed: South Africa

Together we traveled to the countryside to drink wine and visit fellow church members doing something for God. Randomly a good friend Zac, was going to school near by. So we had a visit. There was copious amounts of drinking and violence around his dorm room, life was wild there. It was a little weird that my black boyfriend and I stayed with him for a night. Together we went out to clubs in the countryside, you know, a little hick....people cut in our dancing and when I explained I was with this black person the men fell back in disbelief. This is not what life is like in all parts of South Africa, but that was what it was like in the back parts of Cape Town.

The jazz in Cape Town was unbelievable. Cape Town is glorious.

Places I have Viewed: Brazil

While in Brazil we danced and went to the beach. Most of the time we lived in the American fear that tight clothes and open toes shoes will give us STD and unwanted abrasions. But the more clothes we wore the more we stood out. The Americans drank way too much, but not as much as the Brazilians. Carnival is a time to where all classes can party together, a societal mending time.

The Places I Viewed

The places I have viewed informed me about how the world wants us to see it. This allowed me to question everything about it! Traveling is 3D history, but living in another country teaches you how places really differ from each other. In traveling you don't feel so lonely because you're just passing through.
Did you know Columbus died of syphilis?
The journey begins here for my journey as a human geographer began here at 21 when I clocked in my country count to 35. This is when I wanted to know more and asked many questions about our subjective experience of life- and how it might differ from place to place. I viewed the external factors I control for in my studies now.

When I wasn't writing (I had 5 different journals capturing different experiences..as well as homework), I was in cars, buses, trains, and on my legs.

Our Places: Santa Barbara

Home is so beautiful.

Our Places: Seattle

Seattle held me down, although I was always leaving it. I hated the weather, and freshman year to senior year I took at least 14 plane flights to the Greensboro and to Santa Barbara (each year). Ricky and I worked out in October that he spent nearly $5,000 on flights over our relationship.

But I did learn a lot there, I helped start a new major at my school, and created a little class on the happiness of geography which lead me into my graduate work.

Sometimes I smoked. Sometimes we went to Canada to drink legally in bars. We lived in a pretty sketchy neighborhood.

Our Places: North Carolina

I had to break up with North Carolina in 2009, that was hard because everything was so unbelievably beautiful there and I enjoyed all the free shows. Being around all those singers, rappers, and musicians made me feel like someday I could too, be famous. Hope AfikaNx makes it big. Hope the Urban Sophisticates bring it in.

I miss being around all that energy, and fighting my boyfriend over bedtime, which was always around 4:00am with musicians.

The most romantic moments of my life were spent driving along the blue ridge parkway, those mountains hold my younger years, and my first love.

My family came to visit and we all went to the Outerbanks (island group) and I fell in love with N.C. I thought I was going to live there forever.

The places we have lived hold the history of us.

Our Friends

Our friends are also the history of us. Just as our parents are. I've been reflecting and finding some confluence throughout the years through these epic friendships, and special times that built great friendships. Miss you SB beauties. Why are the States so big? Why can't we all live in SB?