Obligatory Frisbee Post--But Wait, There’s More!

gower coast
Originally uploaded by Turing Test This.

Won again, despite my dropping two of the easiest passes ever. I hope it’s just because of the sweat that comes from running all over the field. It’s a good thing that none of my team members read this blog; they’d probably start electronically yelling at me to stop being so hard on myself. :) There was even more running than usual today because we only had three subs in the first half, and only two in the second. The other team had something like five or six subs. Anyway, Team Blue improves to 4-0.

And now, more.

I know many of you probably never saw many of the pictures that resulted from my European travels. Therefore, I think I’ll throw in a few of my favorites here and there. Enjoy!

Photo explanation: Near Swansea, Wales, the surprisingly magnificent beaches of the Gower Peninsula. You don't associate surfing with Britain, most likely, but there's quite a bit of that going on this coast. Pretty serious tidal differences, too, as you might be able to tell from the broad flatness of the beach. It’s usually pretty windy at the beach, and when it rains it can be miserable in a very British way, but any other time it is beautiful.

The Gower Peninsula was the destination of the first American exchange student tour the day after I arrived in Britain. That time, it was one of those rainy days, but even then the fog ended doing some very interesting things with the horizon. But that’s another picture/story. Later in the year, my flatmates and I would go to the beach to relax, and Ewan would tell us interesting things about geology. Sometimes Sam, the English literature major, would debate him over the subject of whether a thing is more beautiful when it is analyzed and understood or when it is simply experienced. Perhaps it was almost a debate between archetypes, the Artist and the Scientist. Those were good conversations.

Oddly enough there is a street named Gower in Lawrence, only about a block from where I will be living in the fall.