We Like the Internet 4/13
By: Smith Schwartz |
Happy Friday the 13th! Here’s to hoping you’ll stay away from cats and rickety ladders today. We read some fun stuff on the internet this week: I’m not sure what I like more, watching Mad Men, or reading Tom and Lorenzo’s Mad Style, their take on Janie Bryant’s amazing costuming work on the show. TLo (as their fans call them),...
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An Extreme Weekend at Barton Creek Greenbelt
By: Smith Schwartz |
You guys, went rock climbing this weekend! Psych, we went on a hike at the Barton Creek Greenbelt and took photos of some dude we don’t know! We watched him try to flip up and over, but that huge cactus had other ideas. It’s pretty amazing that this place is just a few minutes drive from downtown Austin. Secret swimming...
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Take Manhattan, Just Give Me the Countryside
By: Smith Schwartz |
You guys, we spent last week on a real, live farm about 30 miles outside of Austin. We quickly got used to early nights and early mornings, chickens, guineas and sweet puppies coming to visit us in our little cabin. Luckily for us, we got to reap the benefits of country living without performing any actual chores on the farm....
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Re-Entry at SXSW
By: Smith Schwartz |
Cheers to the USA! It’s been a really incredible three months abroad, but we’re finally back and looking forward to a fun summer at home. We touched down for a few days in Austin, TX for SXSW. South by Southwest is a conference of insane tech, film and music industry types who take over this laid-back city in droves. It...
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Costa Rica Recap
By: Smith Schwartz |
Good morning! During our last leg of international-ness, we spent two week’s with Erik’s work buddies at Table XI in Costa Rica! ¡Que linda! While plenty of work happened (here’s a shot of Erik giving a fascinating tech talk!), there was also lots of sightseeing and hanging out in paradise with a great group of people. It was a delight...
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A Small Plane is a Big Deal
By: Smith Schwartz |
Getting from Panama City to Playa Grande, Costa Rica proved to be somewhat of a difficult task. We figured since those countries are so close together that transporting between the two neighbors should be as easy as flying from Chicago to Toronto, right? Airlines only connect the two countries from capital city to capital city, so there’s no such thing...
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Dinner on the Panama Canal
By: Smith Schwartz |
The Panama Canal is an amazing thing. Even more amazing, you can sit next to it while you eat your dinner. It’s nice to have a meal as a distraction, because just like Lenscrafters, it takes about an hour for one boat to go through one set of locks. We ate dinner at a restaurant atop the Miraflores Locks). Originally...
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Microwaves and Monkeys in Panama City
By: Smith Schwartz |
In case you were wondering, here is the view from my ‘office’ here in Panama. We’re crashing with a friend of ours who lives here, and just down the street from his house is a cute little cafe and store called, well, The Country Store. It’s got great food and like most places in Panama, inexpensive prices. I hang out...
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Four Hour Brunch in Buenos Aires
By: Smith Schwartz |
OK, so you guys already know that we’ve been in Panama for a week now. However, I have one quick order of business to clean up in Buenos Aires. First course, cereal, yogurt, fruit and juice. We had brunch for four hours, y’all! It was crazy. It was long enough to eat, get full, become sleepy, eat more and then...
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Panama Surprise
By: Smith Schwartz |
So, I was expecting Panama City to look like this: But what I didn’t expect was that it would also look like this: I guess that’s what happens when you build this:
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