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I’ve been meaning to post about my (somewhat) recent trip to Sonoma/San Francisco – and if you follow my Flickr photostream, you’ve already seen the pictures.  If not, check out the pictures from our trip here.

I’ve been wanting to go on this trip ever since we saw Sideways.  The idea was to go to Napa and Sonoma and check out a ton of wineries, but once we got over there we found that there was so much to do just in Sonoma.  There wasn’t any need to spread ourselves too thin.  We flew into San Francisco on a Thursday morning and stopped by Sausalito for a quick lunch at a great taco place called the Salsalito Taco Shop.

Salsas at the Salsalito Taco Shop

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In front of a Bacchus float...(with A&A)

I posted my pictures from Mardi Gras a few days ago on Flickr.  Check them out here.

Mardi Gras was awesome.  More than that, New Orleans was awesome.  I didn’t see anything more than the French Quarter, but I already know that I want to go back to visit not during Mardi Gras.  That city has a ton of character along with some great places to eat.  Since we were only down there for 3 days we only had time to do the typical tourist routine.  We hit up Cafe Du Monde for beignets and cafe au lait, Central Grocery for muffaletta sandwiches, drank hurricanes, bought hand grenades from Tropical Isle and caught countless beads from floats at the Bacchus Ball (complete with parade king Val Kilmer!).

Mardi Gras 2009 on Flickr.

IMG_6277, originally uploaded by ultraclay!.

Two NY trips in just a few months is a personal record for me. We caught the train out of Union Station Friday evening up to Penn Station and headed out to Brooklyn from there. It seems as if nights never end before 4am every time I go up to NY, which is awesome at the time, and then not awesome the next day. We also caught Chicago at the Ambassador Theater the next day to see a friend perform. She was great, and even gave us a backstage tour afterwards. Unfortunately we saw it Jan from The Office takes over one of the lead roles.

The attraction keeping us at the bar Friday night were two bocce courts. All bars should have bocce!

See the rest of the pics here on Flickr.

It took a while, but I’m pretty happy with the results.  For everyone that took the time to sift through the pictures of our trip, I think the video fills in all the gaps and portrays some of the sights a little better.

Vimeo

Paris - Eiffel Tower from our hotel room

I have been back from my trip to Europe for a little over a week now and I finally sorted through hundreds of pictures.  Amanda and I went to four cities in a 2.5 weeks: Paris, Berlin, Oswiecim/Auschwitz and Istanbul.  We flew around everywhere and were lucky enough to stay in some decently priced nice hotels.

I trimmed all the pictures down to about 400, but also made a “best of” set on Flickr that sums up the whole trip in 117 pictures.

I also took a ton of video, so I’ll be making a video of that as soon as I find some time.

Check out the pictures on Flickr:

Paris, France (8.20.08-8.23.08, 9.3.08-9.5.08) (128 pics)

Berlin, Germany (8.23.08-8.27.08) (95 pics)

Oswiecim, Poland (8.27.08-8.28.08) (24 pics)

Istanbul, Turkey (8.28.08-9.3.08) (155 pics)

Best of Europe 2008 Set (117 pics)

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Europe Trip Map – See you in a few weeks!

Long weekend of driving up to CT and back.  The wedding and weather made it worth it.

Check out pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffchin21/sets/72157606669594675/

hey everyone. Excuse my extended absence lately. I’ve been quite occupied. This is the first time I’ve ever posted from my phone but it seems approriate. For the next couple months I will be traveling every weekend except one and won’t have a free weekend until October.

This weekend I’m headed up to NY to visit an old friend. In a few weeks I’m starting on my first trip to Europe since highschool when I went to London. I’ll be hittin Paris, Berlin, and dodging bombs in istanbul. Along the way I also plan on dropping in on krakow, Poland. It should be a busy and interesting time leading up to the best season of the year: fall.

I’m sure I’ll be updating my Flickr photostream a lot more often than this Blog with pics from my mobile. Until next time!

On Vimeo

After editing this video together, I realized that I’m not even in it. Think of it as supplementary to Dave’s video – his video proves I was really there!  And as a side-note, I’m kinda disappointed with iMovie 08’s lack of video editing.  Apparently that’s going to be addressed in future updates.

Dave just compiled a video of our trip to San Fran from a few months ago. Beware, it’s random, strange, extreme and contains a lot of slow motion videos! I guess that’s what happens when you get together with your old band from college. I can’t wait to get out there again soon. (on Vimeo)