Pictures (Europe + Roadtrip)

Pictures from Europe and the roadtrip are now up on Picasa.
http://picasaweb.google.com/gordonmzhu

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.

Bye Bike

Yesterday I donated my bike to neighborhood bike works (also known as the bike church at Penn). I bought the parts and put everything together in the bike church over a year ago… I can’t remember exactly when it was.

I used the bike very heavily last year, but recently, my usage dropped to nearly zero. So I thought that it would be best to give it back to the community. Here are some photos: