6/27 Worst. Travel. Day. Ever. Getting up at 4 AM after sleeping only about 1.5 hours was terrible. But I was packed and ready. Tom drove us to the pier and got me a free ride on the ferry into Manhattan so I could go get my passport made. The ferry left at 5:45 and got into Manhattan at 6:45. I said a quick goodbye to Tom and ran to get a cab. About 10 mins. later I was at the passport office on Hudson St. behind about 40 people in line. At 7:45, they let peop...

Sh!? happens 6/24 As many of you already know, I did not make it on my flight to Zurich on Friday. Turns out you need a passport to get on the plane to a foreign country. The funny part is, well, not so funny part, is that at some point between the SFO airport and Newark, NJ airport my passport seemed to have vanished into thin air. Here's the thing. I had my passport to get on the plane in SFO. I would gave put it back in my trendy neck pouch but the zipper w...

6/26 Fist Pump! Another day in Jersey started off pretty late, which was okay by me. Tom had decided to not show up to his morning shift because he had made me a promise: to take me to the Jersey Shore house! Well, I guess he also just didn't feel like working that day. We got ready in the early afternoon and took a drive along the beach to pick up Tom's friend Ian. The traffic was atrocious but it gave me a chance to check out the awesome multi-million dollar ...

6/25 Jersey Day 1: I may be from Cali, but I'm more Jersey than you. So I thought that maybe the previous day had all just been a bad dream and that I would wake up on the airplane to Zurich. When I woke up, I wasn't on a plane. I was in the "Garden State." After being less than motivated to be awake and not actually getting ready until to leave the house until about 2:30 PM, Tom recommends that we go eat at a cool place on the pier called "On the Deck." It's a...

6/25 Jersey Day 1: I may be from Cali, but I'm more Jersey than you. So I thought that maybe the previous day had all just been a bad dream and that I would wake up on the airplane to Zurich. When I woke up, I wasn't on a plane. I was in the "Garden State." After being less than motivated to be awake and not actually getting ready until to leave the house until about 2:30 PM, Tom recommends that we go eat at a cool place on the pier called "On the Deck." It's a...