Yemen? Yeah, Man.

This is a plug for my dear friend Haley's blog. Haley Sweetland Edwards is one of my best friends from way back. She just graduated from Columbia Journalism School and is currently traveling and reporting with the help of several International Reporting fellowships. She's living in Yemen, in a beautiful, old city called Sana'a.

Haley and I went to college a couple of hours from each other -- she was in New Haven and I was in Boston -- so in addition to sharing loads of hilarious high school memories, we also share quite a few college ones. And I think she would agree that our best memories surround the annual Harvard/Yale football game, which we attended each year. (I was always an honorary Yalie with Haley and her Yale crew. Boo Harvard!) Below is a picture of us (chugging cheap beer out of plastic cups, of course) at a tailgate our sophomore year of college, in November of 2002. (Note the blond streak in my hair. I thought I was *so* badass.)



We were the only of our friends to venture to the icy Northeast for college, and at the time, we both thought we were so far away from our Southern California homes. It's crazy to think that she is living on the other side of the world now.

Anyway, I digress. The real point of this post is to tell you that you should watch out for her stories in the headlines -- she just wrote two articles for the LA Times -- and you should also read about her adventures at www.sanaabureau.wordpress.com, which she describes as being part travel diary and part photo-blog.