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Site Change
I’ve been writing occasional updates to this site using the MWeb product (see New Site) and it’s worked decently at outputting static pages. My main disappointment with MWeb is the lack of any advanced scripting or customization features. After looking at various solutions, I decided to move to Jekyll, a static blogging platform written in Ruby. There seems to be an established community behind it, with plenty of plugins (although some are in better shape than others). The best part is everything can be scripted, obviating the need for a specific program to deploy or author pages in. I can now author pages in any Markdown editor and deploy the site from the command line.
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Vietnam
My friend told me he was going to Vietnam to visit some old friends and asked me if I wanted to go. Vietnam wasn’t really high on my list of places I wanted to visit (or on it at all), but I said “Hey, why not”. My original plan was to travel to several cities along the coast, but since I only had one week of vacation time left, I had to cut down the number of stops to just three: Ho Chi Minh, Nha Trang, and Hanoi.
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Belize
With a shorter plane ride than Asia and a reputation for good diving, I’ve wanted to visit Belize for a while. I had originally wanted to make it to Nicaragua on the same trip, but reading about all there was to do in Belize, I kept this a one-country trip. I picked up a Lonely Planet guide and came up with a plan: to visit both Ambergris Caye (pronounced Key) and Caye Caulker as well as San Ignacio on the mainland. Instead of a bus/ferry, I thought taking flights would save time traveling between destinations. The local air carrier, Tropic Air, services a few cities across the country. After arriving in Belize City, I took a small, 10-person plane to Ambergris. I’ve never been on a plane that small before and it was a fun experience. You can even text and browse the internet in flight because the cruising altitude is only a few thousand feet.
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
My friend Greg was visiting so I planned a quick weekend camping trip in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. It was just car camping, so it should be easy enough that I could take my 4 month old puppy Mars along.
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New Site
I’ve been running this site off of Tumblr since 2014 and it’s served me well, until now.
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Cabo San Lucas
I had only a few days of PTO since I just started my new job in May. With that in mind, I wanted to take a short weekend trip somewhere - preferably close, so I could maximize the time I had on vacation. I had heard people talk about visiting Cabo, so without doing much planning I booked a trip there.
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