My Travels Around The World
December 2015
Entry and Bedroom
[Apologies for all the posting. I'm moving material over from one platform to another...] This was our first impression of the place. That's [...]
Our Midtown Property: Before and After Intro
It's been quite the adventure. This is the first time I've done a remodel so I really didn't know what to expect. It was Dan's [...]
October 2015
1417 20th Street Update: wall removed, door moved
A flurry of activity since the tenant moved out, including Dan being in NC for a week since then. Demolition has started and Oakley and [...]
September 2015
Moving to Midtown
In July of 2014, Dan's employer, Bayer, moved their offices from Davis to West Sacramento. He was going from a 3 mile commute - which [...]
Montara update: about to go to design review
It's been awhile since I wrote about this project because we sort of lost focus on it once we started planning a move to Midtown [...]
June 2015
The Way Home
It was a long trip home. We left the Helsinki hotel at 5:30am Saturday morning, got home Sunday around 2:30pm - with a 10hour time [...]
Day 12: Tallinn, Estonia
Dan really enjoyed the hotel we stayed at in Helsinki, especially the view from our room and the sunsets (or lack of them probably more [...]
Day 11: Helsinki, Part 3
Who knew you could find 3 days of stuff to do in Helsinki? We really weren't sure when we booked this, but wanted to stay [...]
Day 10: Helsinki, Part 2
I'm writing this just about a day late. We got in pretty late last night, at least for us - after 11pm sometime - and [...]
Day 9: Helsinki, Part 1 (and mostly Suomenlinna)
If you read yesterday's entry, we talked about this fascination we had with the idea that there wouldn't really be a nightfall. Not completely anyway. [...]
Day 8: Barcelona to Helsinki
We really enjoyed our time in Barcelona. And, 3 days was enough. We were ready to go. We loved the scenery and really loved the [...]
Day 7: Barcelona, Part 3 – Gaudi and the Sea
Barcelona is a Gaudi town, as in Antoni Gaudi, an architect known for something called Catalan Modernism. You see his influence all throughout the city [...]
Day 6: Barcelona, Part 2 – Parc de Montjuic
Parc de Montjuic is more of district than an actual park, although there's a lot of park-like terrain in the district. It has played a [...]
Day 5: Barcelona, Part 1 – Gothic Quarter
Today was the first official day of Dan's vacation (we'll just ignore that he's on a conference call at this moment...approaching 10pm....) so he slept [...]
Day 4: Cologne to Barcelona
I slept a pretty good 7 hours; Dan only about 5; we were both up before 7am. We went down for breakfast in the hotel [...]
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