T.Dubya.

I couchsurfed my first place last weekend.  I was traveling to DC for the first time for the awards ceremony I mentioned in my last post and I wanted to come a few days early to see some sites and meet some folks.  What better way than by staying with complete strangers (with good references)!

Ningxi Liu and her fellow dorm-mates at George Washington University were kind enough to host me.  I showed up on their doorstep on Saturday right off a red-eye from Portland.  An hour later we were emerging out of the subway in santa suits for Santarchy DC ‘08.  I actually bought a suit in Portland and brought it with me…

Me and Ningxi on the DC Metro rail

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Open OceanMap Screenshot

It’s nice to see some news sources running stories on our software development at Ecotrust.  We received a Mellon Award last week in DC for our work on Open OceanMap.  OPB and and San Francisco Chronicle were kind enough to interview and run stories presenting the case for our software and its use to capture fishermen’s knowledge to try and minimize the impact of implementing marine reserves on fishing communities.

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I signed up at couchsurfing.com the other day.  Really a great resource they’ve put together.  It’s so much more than hooking up free places to stay.  People coming to stay with you and sharing their culture, insights and knowledge with you.  Traveling to a distant place and truly immersing oneself in the culture.

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Wandered up to Nanaimo, BC this week.  They don’t make it to easy to get there sometimes.  Stephen and I ended up hopping the max train to the airport, plane to vancouver, cab to the ferry, ferry to south nanaimo, cab to dowtown Nanaimo.  Geez.  Both cabs were little Prius’, nice.

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