In case you missed it, I posted a few trip reports.  Here are the links for those who didn’t see them:

Key West

Key West trip – day 1
Key West trip – day 2
Key West trip – day 3
Key West trip – day 4
Key West trip – day 5

PEACE Alternative Break

day 1 (good story)
day 2 (good story)
days [...]

The remainder of our time in Fort Lauderdale passed relatively peacefully.  We worked at Horses and the Handicapped and were even treated to dinner on the third night by the former student’s parents (which gave me a chance to talk to non-students for the first time in a while; very nice!!!).  I think what we [...]

Our second day in Southeastern Florida was mostly spent volunteering at Horses for the Handicapped.  We did a variety of things while there, from painting to picking up rocks to grooming horses, but mostly we cleaned up horse feces.  Horses defecate a lot.  I was happy to help, but I’ll be happy if I never [...]

My work efforts over the last 2 1/2 years since I started at UT have been focused almost exclusively on two things: research and teaching.  Something I have done very little of is volunteering.  When our service program on campus issued an email asking for faculty volunteers to serve as advisors for service trips, I [...]

We had originally planned to visit the Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, but with the weather hovering in the 40s, another trip to the beach didn’t make sense.  We then thought that maybe we could just bike around the island, as the southeastern side of the island has a great bike trail on it.  But [...]