To celebrate the end of our MBAs we planned a bunch of activities to unwind, enjoy the moment and farewell many of our friends. It was a mirror image of the Orientation Week activities organized for us two years earlier, so it was aptly named Disorientation Week. OCEAN BEACH BONFIRE: This was a repeat, Read More
This blog is still under construction and I’m slowly bringing my entries up-to-date. Please come back again soon, when I should have the following pages up and running: More Swiss Alps: mountaineering, hiking, snowboarding Rugby: Rugby Club Zurich, Swiss Rugby, Berkeley RFC Trip summaries (text with a few select photos) from my travels around, Read More
I always wanted to go to this tournament hosted by Duke University each year in North Carolina. Even before I began business school I’d heard about it, but since coming to Berkeley I haven’t been able to get a Haas team together because we’re a small business school and there just isn’t the interest, Read More
This was the highlight of my trip to Belize! The Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) cave is a river cave that was used by the Mayans centuries ago for human sacrifices and other ceremonies and rituals. The government has limited the number of companies that can conduct the tour in order to preserve the site, Read More
Darren Miao and I decided to go ice climbing with an outfit called Sierra Mountain Guides. I have a fair bit of experience on ice and rock in the mountains, but I’d never tried technical ice climbing – the steepest I’ve climbed before would have been around 50-60 degrees. Our destination was a one, Read More
We had a few more days together in Melbourne before Karen flew back to Townsville and Sally and Ren flew back to Perth. Before everyone went their separate ways we had some pre-dinner drinks at Marnie’s apartment in the Docklands, followed by one last big family dinner at our favourite Chinese restaurant in Hawthorn., Read More
Adri and I took a day trip to Muir Woods, a park just on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County (ie. not far from San Francisco). Muir Woods contains a some of the largest coastal redwood trees in California – and they are HUGE! After a short hike through, Read More
I received a week of annual leave while I was working at Deutsche Post/DHL over the summer – I couldn’t believe it either! – and so I took a week off work to travel around Sicily. I flew into Catania on the east coast and made straight for Agrigento, a five, Read More
I headed back down to Switzerland from Bonn over another summer weekend. I flew in to Zurich and caught a train down to Grindelwald with my Swedish friend Carolin Olsson, who has lived in Switzerland for the past few years. On Saturday we caught the cable car up to First (2168m) and then hiked, Read More
Over the summer I’d kept in touch with Alex Jeffers, a friend from the year above me at Haas. In between graduation and starting work in New York he’d been backpacking around Africa and Europe, and we organized to meet up in Chamonix for the weekend. I flew in to Geneva on Friday evening, Read More