Comment by Graham E. Lau on February 20, 2010 at 8:56pm

Sweet! Have fun! I haven't been in Big Sur in 3 years. I'm flying to Cali next month to use the synchrotron at Stanford for our research, but I don't think I'm going to have any time to travel :(

Comment by Shine on February 21, 2010 at 10:12am

Have fun! Halloween night in Alcatraz with a ghost hunting team sounds amazing; I love getting in situations that elicit suggestive illusions. I think that it's a really interesting experience to see the patterns that our minds will create under duress. I guess that is why I like watching horror movies alone in the dark, lol. Of course, if it's a tangible enemy like a serial killer, then I'm totally screwed because I can't complete exclude the possibility that the crunching of leaves outside my window is not a deranged axe-bearing lunatic. (Note to self: Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a lot more frightening after you move to central Texas.)

Speaking of Texas, if Colin seems to be getting too comfortable in the US, I totally recommend a jaunt through the deep south. A few days among people who celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday on Martin Luther King day should help to combat any amity towards America at large. (Seriously, a woman in my office did that this year because Lee's bday happened to fall on MLK day. Sadly, the entire office cheered her on in honoring the Confederate hero over one of "those people." Sigh.)

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