My Travels Around The World
August 2018
Day 4: Paris, Part 3 – It’s an Impressionist kinda day
Impressionism is my favorite period of art, and Claude Monet my favorite artist of that period. (Cliche, I know, but oh well.) I planned this [...]
Day 3: Paris, Part 2 – Montmartre and the Louvre
Wednesday got off to a normal start finally - up at 5am, worked on the blog for a couple of hours then went downstairs for [...]
Day 2: Paris, Part 1 – Roaming
It is 5am on Wednesday morning and I'm writing the blog entry for Tuesday. All is right with the world. It's funny how out-of-sorts I [...]
Day 1: Cologne
I fell asleep pretty early Sunday night, around 9:30, but was somehow wide awake at 12:30. Thankfully I was able to get back to sleep, [...]
Departure: Sacramento to Cologne: Thu, 8/16 thru Sun 8/19
Because I had a 6:25am flight out of SFO on Saturday morning, I'd planned all along to spend that Friday night in South San Francisco [...]
Pre-Departure and General Updates
Are you ready? Next Saturday, August 18, I have a 6:30am flight from SFO to Heathrow. As is now my custom, this is an introductory [...]
July 2018
The Art of Appreciation and Freedom
I've gotten a daily meditation email from Abraham-Hicks for many years now. While I appreciate that it's not for everyone, their language beautifully weaves together [...]
June 2018
This is a Test
Unlike prior "test posts" which literally only 3 people saw on my request, this is a Real Test, and an announcement of sorts. I've finally [...]
Introduction to my Travel blogs
Only in my wildest dreams did it occur to me that I may one day do a lot of traveling. Due primarily to the randomness [...]
February 2018
Day 4 in PV: Home & Final Thoughts – Monday, Feb 19
I slept good, waking up about 6:45. Started working on the blog and went to sit outside around 7:30 once it got light enough. The [...]
Day 3 in PV: Sunday, Feb 18
The hotel WiFi is working again so I'm happy about that. It's funny how the blog has become such a normal part of any trip [...]
Day 2 in PV: Saturday, Feb 17
It's about 9:20am Sunday morning and I'm writing this at Jon's. The WiFi at the hotel has been down since yesterday evening so I'm feeling [...]
Day 1 in PV: Friday, Feb 16
What is that noise? Where am I? Those were my first thoughts when I woke up yesterday at 3:30am, annoyingly to the alarm I'd set [...]
Departure: Thursday, Feb 15
The year got off to a very busy start. The nature of my job started shifting quickly as a project I'd begun in November 2017 [...]
December 2017
Day 5, Dec 27: Long Beach and the Palos Verdes Peninsula
Last day of this fun little jaunt over Christmas. Dan flies out of LAX tomorrow morning and I will drive home after dropping him at [...]
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