I like good kids. (Seattle, WA; 4/2009)

I've been going through my pictures from the past couple of years (hence this blog) and found this one from a trip to Seattle I made just around a year ago. I was visiting one of my favorite families (from my short stint in China) with three of the sweetest, most innocent kids in the world.

It's strange how you feel like a different person with different people. I think I like myself better around them--I'm who I fancy myself to be on the best of good days. It helped that the kids were so endearing and joyful and that the parents were so admirable in many ways. It helped, too, that they reminded me that I'm not always tired and sarcastic.

There's life outside of marketing.

Hi, Zachary!

From Inside a Mansion: La Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain; 2/2009)

From inside a mansion.

I like lighting fixtures. (Barcelona, Spain; 2/2009)

Who knew there were such simple, clean lines inside La Sagrada Familia?

"israel fuera libano!" (Barcelona, Spain; 2/2009)

Thank you, Barcelona, for politically charged graffiti in the bad part of town. Thank you, Canon G10, for being so gracious in low-light.

Here are a couple of shots of more colorful graffiti. I <3 graffiti.

I like to travel alone. (Barcelona, Spain; 2/2009)

I like vacationing with friends, but there's a special freedom that's unique to being completely alone in a foreign place.

You decide when or whether or not you eat; when you wake; where you go; what you do...and when to finally stop standing in the freezing rain just to get a decent shot of Barcelona at night, with one of the only real light sources being a giant cross beaming in the far distance.