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width:655px; border-bottom: 1px #C4D5E3 dotted; height:40px; Xbackground-color:#ab0; "> <div style="float:left; height:35px; Xbackground-color:#005;"> <p><em>Posted by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/members/emervine/" title="Evelyn Mervine">Evelyn Mervine</a></em></p> </div> <div class="addthis_single" style="float:right; Xbackground-color:#f55; padding-top:6px; height:35px;">  <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style"><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a> <a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a> <a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a> <a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a> </div> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034js_/http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=mjvinas"></script>  </div> <div style="clear:both;"></div> </div> <div class="entry" style="margin-top:15px;"> <p>The “Year of Travel” meme has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2011/12/our-highly-allochthonous-travels-in-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-highly-allochthonous-travels-in-2011">started up</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/2011/12/31/im-a-travelin-woman/">again</a>, so I thought I’d join the fun and recollect my travels over the past year. This has actually been a very busy year. For the first part of the year, I spent many, many hours in lab working on data collection for my PhD. For the second part of the year, I worked on data analysis, thesis chapter writing, and also had a few big events in my personal life– I moved to Cape Town, South Africa, and I was married. Later in the year, I’ll return to Cape Cod for a couple of months to defend my thesis. However, after four years of maintaining a long-distance relationship between Cape Cod and Cape Town, I’m very happy to be living with my partner (mostly) full-time.</p> <p>Without further ado, here are a few pictures my year of travels:</p> <p>I spent most of January-June in Cape Cod, mired in labwork. Fortunately, Cape Cod isn’t such a bad place to live:</p> <div id="attachment_1740" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1740" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/jan_june_capecod/"><img class="size-large wp-image-1740" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/Jan_June_CapeCod-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A sailboat off Martha's Vineyard, 2008. </p></div> <p>In April I took a two week break from my thesis to visit my then-fiance in South Africa. While I was there, we spent a few days hiking in the gorgeous Cederberg Mountains:</p> <div id="attachment_1741" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 471px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1741" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/olympus-digital-camera-73/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1741 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/April_Cederberg.jpg" alt="" width="461" height="614"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Maltese Cross in the Cederberg Mountains, April 2011. </p></div> <p>In June I moved to Laramie, Wyoming for the summer to work on data interpretation with one of my thesis supervisors. I was too busy working on my thesis to spend much time outdoors, but I did go on a few wonderful trail runs under the big Wyoming sky:</p> <div id="attachment_1742" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1742" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/landscape2/"><img class="size-large wp-image-1742" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/landscape2-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Big Wyoming Sky, Summer 2011. </p></div> <p>Over the summer, I also managed to take two quick weekend trips. The first was to Bozeman, Montana where I had the honor of meeting <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Horner">Jack Horner</a>:</p> <div id="attachment_1743" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 485px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1743" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/july_montana/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1743 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/July_Montana.jpg" alt="" width="475" height="518"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Jack Horner, a fake sauropod bone, and I in Montana, June 2011. </p></div> <p>The second trip was to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/amazing-meeting.html">The Amaz!ng Meeting 9</a> in Las Vegas where I saw my good friend James “The Amazing” Randi and also took a quick trip out to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://www.redrockcanyonlv.org/">Red Rock Canyon</a>:</p> <div id="attachment_1744" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1744" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/july_redrocks/"><img class="size-large wp-image-1744" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/July_RedRocks-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Red, red Las Vegas rocks, July 2011. </p></div> <p>In late August I moved to gorgeous Cape Town, South Africa. I’m really grateful that my thesis supervisors have allowed me to do my last few months of thesis writing (mostly) from overseas. Thank goodness for Skype! However, after my move I did have two trips back to Cape Cod: one in late September for a committee meeting and one in late November to finish up the very last little bit of labwork for my thesis. The trip between Cape Town and Cape Cod is fairly long and exhausting… although you do accumulate some serious frequent flyer miles!聽 Fortunately, I just have one (longer) visit to Cape Cod ahead of me until I (fingers crossed!) defend my thesis later this year. I’m really loving my new home here in Cape Town. I’m looking forward to wrapping up my PhD this year and settling down more permanently, hopefully finding work as a geologist in the Cape Town area.</p> <div id="attachment_1745" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1745" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/olympus-digital-camera-74/"><img class="size-large wp-image-1745" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/September_GorgeousCapeTown-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Gorgeous Cape Town, April 2011.</p></div> <p>In October my husband and I were married in the South African winelands near the town of Robertson:</p> <div id="attachment_1746" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1746" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/wedding2/"><img class="size-large wp-image-1746" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/Wedding2-1024x693.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="338"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A wedding in the winelands, October 2011. Photograph by Christine Watters Photography.</p></div> <p>For those of you who remember the interviews about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster that I conducted with my father earlier this year, here’s a picture of my father and I just before the wedding ceremony:</p> <div id="attachment_1747" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-1747" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/wedding3-2/"><img class="size-large wp-image-1747 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2012/01/Wedding3-693x1024.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="590"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">My father and I, October 2011. Photograph by Christine Watters Photography.</p></div> <p>Since the wedding, I’ve been trying to keep busy writing this thesis of mine. These last few months are tough and tiresome, but I’ll persevere and (hopefully!) finish this darn PhD of mine!</p> <p>I have a busy few months ahead of me, but I’m looking forward to a little bit of travel in the near future. The day after tomorrow I fly to Muscat, Oman for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://www.geoman2012.com/">International Conference on the Geology of the Arabian Plate and the Oman Mountains.</a> After the conference, I’m going to spend a weekend with good friends of mine in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. I really enjoy visiting Oman, and I’ve never been to Abu Dhabi, so I’m looking forward to the trip.</p> <p>Hope everyone had a happy, travel-filled 2011. 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Thanks for sharing.</p> <div class="comment-options"> <a class="comment-reply-link" href="/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/?replytocom=6854#respond" onclick="return addComment.moveForm("comment-6854", "6854", "respond", "1739")">Reply</a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-6897"> <div class="comment-avatar-box"> <div class="avb"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://sarahdavid.info/" rel="nofollow"> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/726defff3f044414a59729b03b63e454?s=50&d=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D50&r=G" class="avatar avatar-50 photo" height="50" width="50"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="comment-content"> <div class="comment-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://sarahdavid.info/" rel="nofollow">Md Rajib Hossain</a> said: <em>On <a href="#comment-6897" title="">January 2, 2012</a></em> </div> <p>I’m ensure that, this post haven’t reviewed by the author because there are some text formatted incorrectly. It seems like robotic thread or automation software post.</p> <p>- The first time I tried an electric cigarette was in 2008, and ever since, I’ve made the switch to electric cigarettes on a time basis.</p> <p>Though, this post like a bit of spam, I’ve been following (similar) post on various board. You’re so favorite topic writer because your post not deleted.</p> <div class="comment-options"> <a class="comment-reply-link" href="/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/?replytocom=6897#respond" onclick="return addComment.moveForm("comment-6897", "6897", "respond", "1739")">Reply</a> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-7326"> <div class="comment-avatar-box"> <div class="avb"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://www.perfectplaces.com/" rel="nofollow"> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/203a40fb25513817ddf9c9a8556634e5?s=50&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D50&r=G" class="avatar avatar-50 photo" height="50" width="50"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="comment-content"> <div class="comment-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://www.perfectplaces.com/" rel="nofollow">Matt - Perfect Places</a> said: <em>On <a href="#comment-7326" title="">January 11, 2012</a></em> </div> <p>Great photos and great post. Very inspiring. My daughter wants to travel, and I keep telling her to pursue the academic route. I think I’ll show her this …</p> <div class="comment-options"> <a class="comment-reply-link" href="/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/?replytocom=7326#respond" onclick="return addComment.moveForm("comment-7326", "7326", "respond", "1739")">Reply</a> </div> </div> </li> </ol> </div> <div id="respond"> <div class="comment-avatar-box"> <div class="avb"> <img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536?s=50" class="avatar avatar-50 photo avatar-default" height="50" width="50"/> </div> </div> <div class="comment-content"> <h3 id="reply" class="comments-header"> Leave a Reply </h3> <p id="cancel-comment-reply"> <a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2012/01/01/a-year-of-travel-2011/#respond" style="display:none;">Click here to cancel reply.</a> </p> <form action="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform" class="standard-form"> <p class="form-author"> <label for="author">Name <span class="required">*</span></label> <input type="text" class="text-input" name="author" id="author" value="" size="40" tabindex="1"/> </p> <p class="form-email"> <label for="email">Email <span class="required">*</span></label> <input type="text" class="text-input" name="email" id="email" value="" size="40" tabindex="2"/> </p> <p class="form-url"> <label for="url">Website</label> <input type="text" class="text-input" name="url" id="url" value="" size="40" tabindex="3"/> </p> <p class="form-textarea"> <label for="comment">Comment</label> <textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea> </p> <p class="form-submit"> <input class="submit-comment button" name="submit" type="submit" id="submit-comment" tabindex="5" value="Submit"/> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="1739" id="comment_post_ID"/> <input type="hidden" name="comment_parent" id="comment_parent" value="0"/> </p> <div class="comment-action"> <p style="display: none;"><input type="hidden" id="akismet_comment_nonce" name="akismet_comment_nonce" value="54476a49c4"/></p> <p style="clear: both;" class="subscribe-to-comments"> <input type="checkbox" name="subscribe" id="subscribe" value="subscribe" style="width: auto;"/> <label for="subscribe">Notify me of followup comments via e-mail</label> </p> </div> </form> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div class="social"> <span class="icons"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://twitter.com/#%21/GeoEvelyn" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/wp-content/themes/agu-buddypress/images/social-rev/twitter.png" width="25" height="25" alt="Twitter"/></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/feed" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/wp-content/themes/agu-buddypress/images/social-rev/rssfeed.png" width="25" height="25" alt="RSS Feed"/></a> </span> <br class="clearfloat"/> </div>   <div id="text-3" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widgettitle">About Evelyn</h3> <div class="textwidget"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117101034im_/http://blogs.agu.org/georneys/files/2011/07/evelyn_headshot1.jpg" alt="Evelyn Mervine" title="Evelyn Mervine" class="alignright bio-pic"/>Evelyn Mervine is a geologist, writer, traveler, and aspiring polyglot. 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