Summer’s Over!

And a lot has happened in just a few months.  After graduation, I went backpacking in Europe for a month with @fondac (London, Paris, Madrid, Seville, Tarifa, Tangier, Barcelona, Lyon, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich, Milan, Florence, Rome, Prague, Munich, Berlin, Copenhagen, Malmo, Amsterdam, Brussels, and then back to London). It was very much a whirlwind trip. Many times we didn’t know where we’d be the next day or where we’d be staying that night. At any point in time we probably had one or two days planned in advance on average.

In August we drove from Florida to California. Along the way, we stopped in New Orleans, Austin, El Paso, Phoenix, San Diego, and Los Angeles. The driving wasn’t too bad because we spread the trip over eight days (if you drive like a machine you can finish in three days).

Fast forward another month to September and I’ve just finished my first week at Google. I met lots of incredibly smart people and learned a ton in just a few days. After having limited access to computers for much of the summer, it feels great to be interacting with technology again.