{"id":535,"date":"2009-12-05T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T00:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2009-12-05T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T00:53:09","slug":"trip-20091112-atlantic-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/535","title":{"rendered":"Trip: 20091112 Atlantic Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long trip, but a fun trip! See my route here:<\/p>\n

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My goals for the trip, and if I managed to reach them:<\/p>\n

– Do some good shows. Tick!<\/p>\n

– Hang out with friends on the Prinsendam. Tick!<\/p>\n

– Finish the music track for my video project. Tick! I’m really happy with it, but I might re-record the vocals. <\/p>\n

– Get the last few shots and do a final edit on the video project. Tick!<\/p>\n

– Visit some new places. Tick! Lanzarote was good fun, as was my two days on Aruba.<\/p>\n

– Write the second half of my NaNoWriMo novel. Fail! I was working on other stuff. and, to be honest, sort of got hung up on the three quarters problem<\/a>, and didn’t push through to the end. And this was three quarter of the second half of the novel, and a short novel at that, so I’ve probably only got 6,000 words to write.<\/p>\n

– Take some cool photos, and generally get better at photography. Tick!<\/p>\n

– Juggle a lot. Fail! Due to hurting my left thumb really badly during a game of combat before I left, I’ve done very little club juggling. Ring juggling is coming on well though. I think when I get back to Berlin I’m going to sign up for a week’s training with Sergei Ignatov to see if I can get some intensive learning with rings. <\/p>\n

– Read a few novels and release some podcasts. Tick! Due to a non-shit connection at 2am on the cruise ships, I’ve even uploaded the podcasts while at sea, something that is normally too much of a pain and too expensive. I didn’t bother with Atlas Shrugged, and reviewed the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Makers, the new novel by Cory Doctorow. I also read Shadow Magic by John Lenahan. And The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker, which I really, really enjoyed. And Exodus.<\/p>\n

Highlights from the trip:<\/p>\n

– Standing ovations in my shows. Also all the comments from guests and other entertainers about how much they enjoy my show. <\/p>\n

– The trip up to the volcano on the island of Lanzarote. <\/p>\n

– John Lenahan’s “magic” show. And Diemos’ Draculaphone routine. <\/p>\n

– Watching the whole of season 1 of Dexter. Very, very good TV.<\/p>\n

– The boat trips and the private island in Aruba. Also taking photos of lizards. Animals that stay still a lot, and look at you a lot, are very easy subjects.<\/p>\n

I was planning to drop photos from my trip into this post, but I’ve shared quite a few already, and don’t have time to add them individually before I get on my flight down to Buenos Aires (I’m writing this at my departure gate in Miami International Airport, thanks to Google for the free wifi).<\/p>\n

Instead I’ll add all the photos as a slide show, and add a new post in a few days about the second half of this 2 month trip:<\/p>\n

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