Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category: Saturday, August 28th, 2010
While I’m enjoying my weekend and trying to find the motivation to finish up my Australia blog, I’ll leave you with a nice photo I took at the beach this August between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. One of the many reasons I would actually like to pack up and move down there.
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010I will be in or traveling to Australia between tomorrow and 6 August. So… go read my travel blog here:
ComeToAustralia.DanielleHanifin.com
I may or may not be posting here while I’m having fun, playing photographer, and exploring. And, on that blog, I’m trying to interact with any potential readers by maybe doing things they suggest, accepting any reasonable and non-creepy dares, finding answers to questions, so on and so forth. So yeah, go there.
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Skydiving is something that I really think everyone should at least try once before they die. I was lucky enough to go for my 21st birthday a few weeks after the fact with my family from all over the country.
Basically it’s awesome. We took a very small plane up – only one person from our group could do a tandem dive at a time, but we were able to fit my jump instructor, a videographer, the pilot, and myself in. Though, it was a very, very tight fit. But yeah, on our way up I got to see Rochester City, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Batavia, Toronto, and bits of surrounding Canada all from where our plane was.
When time came to open the door and jump out, I found myself looking outside of the airplane thinking to myself “That’s a very long way down… LET’S GO!” I wasn’t nervous at all even though I totally thought I was going to be… but really, if you get nervous, it’s totally worth the rush of free falling a mile before opening the parachute and floating the rest of the way down.
Really, I believe I will do it again. I’m trying to figure out ways to do it after I graduate university in December and possibly even taking a course so I can go solo in the future. Regardless, it was one of the most amazing things I’ve done in my life… and I’ve done a lot of stuff.
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
I finally got the film developed from the roll I took with a disposable waterproof camera in Key Largo. My cousin, Sara, works down there in a kayak shop right on the beach and quite frankly, it’s amazing.
I was lucky enough to go on a four hour kayaking trip across the water and through the mangroves with her and one of the regular kayaking guys. Honestly, it was incredible and these photos don’t do the whole ride any justice at all. The water was crystal clear, there were thousands of little fishes under our boats the whole time, and we got to get out and go for a swim mid-way through the trip.
If I already didn’t want to move down there and try to find a job already, this makes me want to move down there even more. Don’t know where I would end up in Florida, but the beaches and weather there make me an extremely happy person.
And apologies for the awful quality of the digital images – the film ones aren’t that great either. Thanks Walmart for royally effing up my photos. I guess I should look into a waterproof point-and-shoot, eh?
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Friday, May 14th, 2010Before I run away from the inside and go lay on the beach again, I think I need an update on what this past week has “made” me ponder. With my vacation coming to an end in Florida, I’ve noticed that I’ve been one of those lazy beach people who runs into the water, comes out, dries off, runs into the water again… it’s a vicious cycle. Anyway… all that time by myself in one of the most relaxing environments possible makes me think.
This semester I’ve put a lot of my art on hold. I was way too busy to do anything, really, for myself in terms of photography and ceramics these past five or six months, which is really sad because this time last year I came back from Italy doing NOTHING but art for MYSELF.
I really don’t know what to do anymore… for the rest of college and/or for the rest of my life! I DO KNOW, however, that I am going to grad school for photography. But really, I sort of came up with a mental list of things that I know I would be totally happy doing: traveling the world and photographing for a travel magazine (two awesome passions in one), moving somewhere and doing that whole fashion photography thing, opening up a studio and joining with another artist or two and living solely off of workshops and commissions… the list goes on and on. I want to drive across America and photograph ALL of it (and I do mean all of it!), I want to do the same in Australia (only that’s not such a wonderful idea considering the environment over there), I want to make journals of all this crazy and publish a book about it – all the stupid things I tend to get myself into (like getting lost in Sweden during a blizzard).
I have all the time in the world to do this stuff, but I need a job first so I can, you know, actually DO IT. I’m not all for finding an office job and being all like “blah dee da… SALARIES!” No… I need to be wandering, meeting new people, seeing new things, doing all that crazy stuff. I’ve had a taste of it this summer. Even if Florida isn’t exotic and brand spankin’ new, that’s okay. I’ve met a bunch of crazy awesome people and have done quite a few pretty amazing things no matter how little or big they may be.
Anyway… this is what the beach does to me. If only the beach could be tossing me up money so I can go do it ALL, that would be fantastic haha.
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010It’s the last undergrad summer I will ever have… I’m going to squeeze everything out of it that I possibly can. I’ve been staying in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida for the past few days as readers may or may not have noticed from my previous posts. But right now, I am in Miami visiting my cousin and her boyfriend for a couple of days. Unfortunately I have to leave sometime tomorrow because I’ve got to make it back up to New York before the 20th… somehow.
But yeah, that’s the not-so-exciting bit. Today was nuts! My cousin and I went sea kayaking for nearly four hours today! Mind you, I’ve only really ever canoed and only have ever taken kayaking lessons in an indoor pool during high school. I know the safety basics… that’s it. Kayaking through mangrove forests and in open water is much different than a high school swimming pool. Though, it wasn’t nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. I really did think I would fail epically… BUT I DIDN’T! We saw giant birds, lots of fishes, crabs, lobsters, sponges, and all sorts of fun things. And we got to go swimming somewhere in the middle of the trip!
I’ve got pictures on my disposable, water-proof camera, but I’ve got to get them developed at some point in order to post them.
Though my stay in Miami has been short, it’s been very enjoyable. It’s very different from other big cities I’ve been in in the states in terms of who lives where and why things cost so damn much… but whatever. It’s Miami… it’s warm and it’s not snowing!
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Here’s my little travel map that I tend to put up whenever I go somewhere (the upcoming Australia adventure should be fun!). I peaced out of school as early as I could from outside of Rome, Georgia. Right now I’m in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida and will be heading down to Miami on the 10th for a couple of days. After that I’ll be turning right back around and slowly making my way up to New York with various stops along the way. Sound like fun to you? ‘Cause it does to me!
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