Autumnal Ponderings

I haven't been updating my blog regularly.  But I did blog in some other places.  Here's a link to my latest blog for the University's Global Ambassadors.  It's a bit deeper than my usual ramblings - hope you still enjoy it :)

http://blogs.luc.edu/globalambassadors/2013/10/30/fall/

Summer is here

Summer is here, but I'm not.  Well I'm not in Chicago at the moment.  After almost a year I'm back in Malta, writing this blog from my desk in my home in Zurrieq.  I have missed this place, and I'm enjoying every minute.  I'm going to the beach almost daily, but I'm also catching up with friends, and sampling all the delicious food which I have been missing.  It is hot here, but in the evening the see breeze cools down.  Maybe one of these evenings I'll find some time to catch up with this blog too. We'll see.  In the meantime I wish you all the best :)

5/50...long way to go

Many remember that something on my bucket list is to go to the 50 states that make up the U.S.  Whilst this seemed quite a do-able task, time and money have not helped.  Thus it is with some great deal of satisfaction that I see that at least I'm now 20% into my target.  

May was in fact a traveling month, with two trips which have taken me to the western and eastern coasts of the U.S.  Earlier on I visited San Diego, and last week I've spent it in New York City.  So now I've been to California and New York.  (I discovered that what we generally call New York is intact New York City, not to be confused with the state of New York).  I was lucky enough that in both trips I ventured out of the city and saw some other parts of both states, although this was obviously limited.

I must admit that I preferred San Diego to New York.  Whilst San Diego was more like home with the beautiful weather, the landscape and the sea, in New York the weather wasn't so co-operative ranging from cold and wet to hot and humid.  Still the thing which affected me most was that in New York it seems that everything is driven by money.  Anyway I'll speak more about my impressions of both cities in my next blogs.

At the moment I'm just glad that a year and a half into this experience, I did some progress into this US-project of mine.  Hopefully before I get to come home for good, there's much more red on that map. :)

More on the weather

A Chicagoan told me, if you're not happy with the weather, just wait a few hours. because it will change.  And it really does.  Mind you the change is drastic, at times.  Last week we had a 30 degree (celsius) day, today it's going to be some 6 degrees apparently.  Still I'm not complaining, I had a good taste of summer already, last week in San Diego, California - details will follow soon :)  And I just have to wait for tomorrow, because it will be warmer.