Category Archives: Travel
Darius Goes West
Mike surprised me with an amazing weekend in Santa Barbara to celebrate our three year anniversary. When we got there, we both got a pleasant surprise: The Santa Barbara Film Festival was going on. http://www.sbiff.org/ We decided we should catch a movie so we chose a film that peeked our interest. It is called Darius [...]
Anniversary Bike Ride in Santa Barbara
We had a great trip to Santa Barbara for our anniversary. We took a beautiful bike ride up Mountain Drive and then up the coast. You can see our route on this new tool/site I found : Sanoodi (not sure what the name means but it’s pretty cool). Source: http://www.sanoodi.com</p> <ul> <li>Name: SB Bike Ride</li> [...]
How far did you walk/run?
So Kelly and I have been trying walk/run/bike more this year. Well, let me rephrase that, Kelly has a great track record of taking walks and runs. I have a slightly more vacant excercise chart. However, in the last month I have 4 runs, 1 bike ride, and several walks. We’ll see if I can [...]
Welcome Back!
It’s been a rush the last month. I got back to LA at the end of September and the next day Kelly and I were up to Oregon for Pierce and Kyla’s wedding in Hood River. After the great event we went to Bend to visit Courtney and Adam Bledsoe. Following a wonderful, peaceful few [...]
Nigerian Report on Team Oxford
Well, the major newspaper in Lagos – ThisDay – published an article on the Oxford students that worked there all summer. Below is the article that was published. Oxford University/Access Bank Partnership: Courting the Knowledge edge… 09.03.2006 Glitt Personality They are four MBA students from the prestigious Oxford University. A Chinese lady, Lijun Jiang; Michael [...]
Jayne Thorpe Update
Some claim Nigeria beat Jayne, others say the mosquitos were just too persistent, either way the fact remains Jayne Thorpe had to be admitted to the local hospital. After a week’s battle with Malaria the pain and headaches never ceased. So for 3 days and 2 nights Jayne was under observation at the Reddington [...]
Golfing in Lagos: some good shots and better shocks
Over the past 12 months I’ve been fortunate enough to play some of the best golf courses in the world ranging from St. Andrews to Muirfield, Carnoustie to Turnberry, and I don’t want to forget Royal St. George’s and Sunningdale. In my life I’ve played well over 1,000 rounds totaling more than 18,000 holes (I [...]
Malaria hits our team. What about the others?
This weekend Jayne came down with Malaria. She wasn’t feeling too well on Friday and Saturday so she went to the clinic and sure enough it was Malaria. Everything is fine but the medicine is taking a toll. We’ll keep you updated as time moves on. Elsewhere around the world there are over 45 other [...]
Week 4: Kelly’s last week in Nigeria
So this will be my last post from Nigeria. Tomorrow (Tuesday the 1st of August) I fly out of Lagos, touch down in London for 24 hours and then head to California. I am looking forward to spending some time with my family, but am so sad to be leaving Mike. At the same time, [...]
VIDEO: A Day in the Life in Lagos
An Oxford MBA team is spending 8 weeks in Lagos on a consulting project with Access Bank. In the next 3.5 minutes, mcfaddenplace productions will take you to where the team, Jayne Thorpe, Lijun Jiang, Timothy Ojo, and Michael McFadden, are working diligently on their task at hand. Be on the watch out for a [...]
