You could call it "Traveling"

Today, on the day that one of my dearest friends is boarding a plane to Ireland to study abroad for a semester, I celebrated/mourned the fact that I am still here in the states, with no immediate travel plans.

Yesterday, my journey was to "upstate" New York to the charming little town of Garrison.

This alone may have been worth 3 hours driving each way. However, the main reason we went up was to visit Malcolm before he runs off across the country to go to his real college. (Sarah Lawrence isn't good enough for him apparently.) Approximately 7 hours total driving, 7 hour visit. It was worth it. Although the way home shouldn't have taken 4 hours, but with Meg's crazy directions that led us over both the Tappan Zee and the George Washington bridges, we certainly earned that extra hour. We should have sucked it up and used the GPS.

I returned home to this. A minimal amount of snow, but enough to make the roads messy for those of us without 4-wheel drive, and enough to make all of Pennsylvania freak out about the weather. It's barely snowing now, but I am still hesitant to go out driving in it.

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Season 1 arrived from Netflix yesterday, and what better day to pretend to travel than a day when it's snowy and cold out?

I watched the Paris episode already today and have intentions of watching the New Jersey one later. As I have been to Jersey many times, three in the past 24 hours, I have very low expectations for that episode. Still, I want Bourdain's job. Desperately. Employers, if you are looking for someone for this sort of job with little to no food-related experience and minimal travel experience, I am the candidate for the job! We can call it "No Reservations, No Experience, No Communication" and watch Alexis, the poor college student attempt to survive in the country I am dropped in with little money, life experience, or the language spoken in the country. It'll be like Survivorman, but with less wilderness, far more accidents, and death.