Aloha! I spent last week in Kalaupapa, a northern peninsula on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. I’ve been helping a fellow graduate student out with his dissertation research on the historic lepertorium here on the island. It’s particularly relevant as Farther Damien, a missionary who came to the island and ended up getting leprosy [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘travel’
August 21, 2008
Continuous Movement
I took an overnight train from Konya to Istanbul, and snapped this photo as the sun was going down over the Anatolian plain. I’ve never ridden a proper train before, or at least one that wasn’t connected to a larger metro. The trip took sixteen hours and we passed squat minarets and blasted mountains and [...]
June 26, 2008
Ireland
There’s a giant butterscotch cat sitting on my lap as I peck away at the keyboard, one hand kept behind his battle-scarred ears–he’s a lover and a fighter–his claws digging into my thigh each time I stop petting. Beast. It’s okay though, he and the peat fire are keeping me warm in a drafty, weird, [...]


