Maëlys McArdle

Category: Travel

  • Apartheid Lives On

    Apartheid Lives On

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    I’m in South Africa right now. The country I’m in has a 79% black population, and yet, you would never know it from looking at the makeup of the places I’ve been visiting. It’s so… black and white. For instance, I’m visiting a geophysics company. Its sixty workers, safe for one man, are all white.…

  • Las Vegas & Defcon 17

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    Last weekend I went to Las Vegas to attend the seventeenth iteration of Defcon. What an amazing time. I made a bunch of awesome friends, and saw some old acquaintances I hadn’t seen HOPE6 three years ago. I also met some people I had talked to online for the first time: Irongeek, verbal, JFalcon, rbcp,…

  • Arrived at Desination

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    I’ve arrived at my destination. I’m in the western part of Argentina. Being here makes me realize how wealthy we are in Canada. The city people live well, but you see the lesser income in he shape of the buildings, the cars, the crumbling city infrastructure… As a rite of passage, I just had my…

  • In transit…

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    Okay, so maybe I won’t be too precise about what I do where, but nothing says I can’t talk about what I do on my way there. I’m in Buenos Aires at the moment. Interesting city. Wonderful, wonderful food. I stopped by Santiago, Chile, earlier today. It’s interesting – it’s right by the Andes, yet…

  • Malaria pills are %#@$ expensive.

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    I just spent $470 on malaria pills. …and that just covers this one trip.

  • UK Photos Online

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    I’ve uploaded the photos from the UK trip online. I took approximately 400 photos; the ones here represent the best of them. I removed any pictures of my nieces – I don’t want their face plastered on the Internet (my family is getting the set of pictures with the children.) On this trip, I was…

  • Back from San Jose!

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    More details to follow in this entry tomorrow night… San Jose City Hall

  • Back from HOPE

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    I’m back from the HOPE conference in New York City. I’m very short on time at this instant, so I’ll just point you over to this gallery. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words (and yes, this is a thinly veiled copout attempt.)

  • Why Hostels Are Great…

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    Because you meet people like these! On the left we have Nadja from Switzerland, Su-Ann from Singapore but living in NYC, Me, Justin from the UK, and Mark from Wales. Missing from this shot was Rahel (Switzerland) and another Mark (Australia). Great people, great experience. This shot was taken from a club in downtown Ottawa.…