Category: Travel
Lonescapade: Discovering Atlanta’s Northside Trail
I moved to a new apartment in Atlanta a few weeks ago, near the Collier Hills neighborhood. For me, moving means exploring and making a new community my own. The Northside Trail, part of the Atlanta BeltLine, is about half a mile from my new digs and it has become part of my walks and runs. The ...
Anime Weekend Atlanta
AWA is wrapping up today, the 21st year for the con. Every year the Renaissance Waverly Hotel and Cobb Galleria in Smyrna, Georgia hosts Anime Weekend Atlanta at the end of September, a con for Japanese culture and anime. This is a great con if you want something smaller that Dragon Con, but with a similar feel. Of ...
Weekend in NYC
I had a great weekend, spent in New York City. I feel like I accomplished a lot in just two days of travel. Here are some of those things:
Dragon Con 2016
This post is about a week late, but I wanted to say something about my Dragon Con experience this year and how much I love this con!! Now my fourth year attending the annual Atlanta convention, this year was a very different experience than previous years. For one thing, the past two years I had films that ...
Japan Welcomes the 2020 Olympics with Mario and Other Characters
As the Rio Olympic games came to an end last night during the closing ceremonies, the torch was passed from Brazil to Japan. Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympic games and they are already getting us hyped. Japan’s video for their upcoming Olympics gave spotlight to Hello Kitty, Pac Man, and Mario. We also learned that ...
New York Nerdom
I spent MLK weekend in New York City with friends. The climate shock coming from Atlanta was great, and the fact that it rained all Sunday didn’t help, but we toughed it out, tramping all over the city, seeing a few key sights in our limited time. We decided the need for sleep would not have ...
Neptune Your Dial 