Brendan Nee

Tag Archives: travel

Amazing Art Nouveau Windmill building in Buenos Aires (Confitería Del Molino)

September 15th, 2010

I was very impressed with the windmill turrent on the Confitería Del Molino in Buenos Aires right off of the Plaza del Congreso.

Thai Hot Dog Stuffed Pizza and Singaporean Prosperity Pizza

February 23rd, 2010

Here is a delicious picture series for today:

No Exploding Suitcases, Please

February 16th, 2010

This photo was taken in Hangzhou near a pedestrian underpass.

The Man in the Mirror

February 16th, 2010

I’m going to try posting an interesting photo from my travels on a regular basis. I’ve got a pretty large number of photos that might be worth a look, posting all of them in a gallery would take a while but making a few of them into blog posts once in a while shouldn’t be [...]

Beijing Beef vs Orange Chicken on Olympic opening day and free wifi at Houston airport

August 9th, 2008

En route from Belize City I decided to honor the start of the 2008 Olympic Games by taking the Panda Express challenge. A sign in Houston’s George Bush Intercontintal Airport posed the question: “Which is better, Beijing Beef or Orange Chicken”. After trying both, I give the gold medal to Orange Chicken with Beijing Beef [...]

Boingo Wi-Fi sucks

August 4th, 2008

Warning: Rant below I decided to take a last minute trip to Belize with Lisa to meet up with Jed who has been traveling around Mexico for the last few weeks. Lisa found a $360 ticket at 8 PM leaving at 12:30 AM so we packed, hit up a Taqueria for a goodbye burrito and [...]

World Trip 2008

March 6th, 2008

I’m currently on a 5 month trip around the world with my girlfriend Lisa. I’ve finally found enough time to update this blog to point to my trip blog mostexcellentjourney.com. Its got a map of where we’ve been, notes from each place we’ve visited and photos. You can also get the RSS feed or get [...]

Why Virgin America is great (and I’m not even on board yet)

October 9th, 2007

Today is my first time flying Virgin America. I’m headed to New York from San Francisco. My final destination is Boston but I decided to route through NY and take the Chinatown bus to Boston just to try out Virgin America. So far its great. Virgin America flys out of the international terminal at SFO. [...]

Hour 64: Thoughts on Amtrak

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August 16th, 2007

This has been a very interesting trip. Some things I’d reccomend for your cross country train trip: An extension cord- There seem to be only 3 outlets on the train and they are not placed in areas where you could sit and work. Also, one with multiple ends will allow you to make friends by [...]

Amtrak + iPhone = Crazy Delicious

August 15th, 2007

Hour 51: Just hit Omaha, NB, 5.5 hours behind schedule. Lots of people got on in Denver so the train was full, now a lot of people are leaving. Having the iPhone has made this trip much more tolerable. During the trip, both facebook and netvibes launched iPhone versions of their sites, both of which [...]

Grand Junction: Not so grand

August 14th, 2007

Hour 29: I’m starting to think I should have brought some food with me on this trip. The cafe food is maybe on par with gas station food at triple the price. The dining car food isn’t much more but the menu is remarkably similar to the cafe: hot dogs, hamburgers, and pizza. We stopped [...]

Nothing to eat in Winnemucca

August 14th, 2007

Hour 10.5: We had a long stop in the middle of nowhere, now a 40 minute stop in Winnemucca, NV. There was actually a basque restaurant across the street from the station (read: gravel lot) which gave me 4 beers for $8. Train food has not impressed me yet, I think that was the worst [...]

Internet in the sierras

August 13th, 2007

Hour 3 outside of colfax, ca. I’ve gotten pretty constant Internet thus far. There are announcements about every 10 minutes with history and sights. Colfax is quaint mountian town. Almost time for lunch.

Old & new school: San Francisco to Chicago via train with an iphone

August 13th, 2007

I’m en route to Chicago from San Francisco (well, really Emeryville) to visit my brother. I’ve got my iphone which I hacked last night to allow my laptop to use the Internet via ad hoc wireless. I’ve got 3 full batteries, so we’ll see how long I can keep the trainblog going. Hour 1: Left [...]