Google Reader I am back. Last month I returned from five weeks backpacking Europe and moved into a new home in Frankford, a neighborhood in lower Northeast Philadelphia. Somehow, even though I was travel blogging and video podcasting at WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, my month-plus European tour was an Internet vacation (IV) for me. It was a chance [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 8, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com Worlds – yes, disparate worlds – come to some form of a cross-section in red-eyed, late nights in train stations. Early Tuesday morning, we were doing that, surfing the intersection of the young and the acutely itinerant – being reminded of the sociological difference between situational [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct 26, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com He liked the movement of the mouse cursor on my computer screen. So I pried his hands from the keys and opened up Microsoft Paint. With a few interruptions to change color and tool, a four-year-old who stumbled upon me in a park in Budapest, Hungary [...]

After returning from backpacking Europe earlier this month, I shared some of the professional experience I got while blogging at WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com. My good buddy, travel partner and fellow aspiring new media journalist Sean Blanda beat me to a post on lessons learned, but I have some thoughts myself: on podcasting, travel blogging and exploring generally. [...]

I’ve been backpacking Europe. I returned last week and have been getting out from underneath the transition since then. Though this is a blog on being a young journalist housed on my professional site, I can’t help but share some of the blogging and podcasting I did on WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com. Number of Views:591

By Christopher Wink | Oct 9, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com We meet Sander and Neek at the outskirts of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Sean, his brother Brian, and I are on a bridge demarcating where the sex ends and the large, quiet residences begin. A small, sloping bridge over a small canal, 15-feet wide, on which [...]

Currently I am abroad, video podcasting at WeDontSpeakTheLanguage.com: A video podcast and blog about traveling the world for the young and broke. Follow me there, but also continue to enjoy regular posts here at ChristopherWink.com about the plight of a young, aspiring journalist, which will appear below this reminder. Number of Views:154

Today, my good friend Sean Blanda and I are departing for London. I mentioned this trip last month. He and I are beginning an open-ended European backpacking adventure. We have no return ticket, no definite plans or destinations: just a month long, 10-stop itinerary on the way to Hungary and vague plans of reassesing our funds [...]

Today is my last day in Harrisburg. A buddy and I are packing up my life from a summer-long post-graduate internship covering state government in Pennsylvania’s capitol. After visiting the 30th annual Pennsylvania Chili cook off here in Harrisburg who knows when I’ll be back. So, here’s my Harrisburg to-do list and how I fared [...]

JOHN MCCAIN WAS IN LEGENDARY PITTSBURGH EATERY PRIMANTI BROTHERS earlier this month. The joke was that he went to the 75-year-old eatery for local flavor and instead ran into his own constituents – tourists from Tempe, Ariz. there to check out old Steel Town. Number of Views:248