Ryan Goes Places

About Me


Ryan Brown is a recent graduate of Duke University. Between May and December 2009, she kept this blog to record her travels across Europe and Africa. These days, you can find her here.




Where I've been
(since May '09)

Durham, North Carolina
Denver, Colorado
Durban, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Victoria Falls, Zambia
New Orleans, Louisiana
Washington D.C.
Bucharest, Romania
Budapest, Hungary
Prague, Czech Republic
Paris, France



Contact
ryan.brown at duke.edu

Other Writing

To Be Certain
Short Story (Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize),
Dec. 2008

Learning How to Elect a President
Denver Post column, Sept. 2008

From War to Duke
Towerview (News Magazine), Oct. 2008




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Homesick Sundays

I miss crisp, cold fall weather. I miss scarves and sweaters and jeans. I miss crunchy leaves. I miss clouds. I miss drinking hot coffee on a cold day. I miss hot showers. I miss sleeping under piles of blankets and waking up perfectly warm when the air all around you is freezing cold. I miss wearing shoes that are not flip-flops. 

When I’m gone from here I will probably want nothing more than to be able to sit on the beach again, surrounded by sunlight and ocean and effortlessly warm in the middle of November. But for now I just miss seasons…

(…and guacamole and English-speakers and efficiency and spinach and blending in and wheat bread and seeing the people I love face-to-face. But those are all stories for the next homesick day. For now there is French to be studied and copious amounts of laax [an astounding delicious combination of vanilla yogurt and warm millet] to be consumed. So don’t feel too bad for me)

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