My Travels Around The World
February 2019
Departure: Sacramento to Puerto Vallarta (Thu, Feb 14)
This is my 2nd trip to Puerto Vallarta, having come here the same weekend - President's Day - last year. Spending some time with my [...]
September 2018
Day 13: The Way Home; Final Thoughts
It's Saturday, September 1, 2018, as I type 7:53am Eastern Time. I've been on the road really since Thursday, August 16, when I left Sacramento [...]
Day 12: Seeing Friends in NYC
I got about 5 hours sleep on Thursday night, waking up Friday before 5am. I started working on the blog in my room and went [...]
August 2018
Day 11: NYC – Downton Abbey Exhibition, Empire State Building
I managed to sleep until 6am, so like 6.5 hours I guess, but it wasn't a fit sleep. I was planning on just having breakfast [...]
Day 10: London to New York City
This will be the easiest blog entry ever. It was pretty much just a travel day so not much to report on. I don't remember [...]
Day 9: Buckingham Palace, and a Tour for Muggles
It's Tuesday, this is my last day in London. Did it on foot for the most part and it was my 2nd highest walking of [...]
Day 8: St. Paul’s Cathedral and Warner Bros Harry Potter Studios
I started Monday with a good 7 hours of sleep, waking around 5am. I finished the blog and went in search of breakfast. This is [...]
Day 7: York
I no longer remember where the idea of doing a day trip to York came from. Maybe it was because my friend, Art, who you'll [...]
Day 6: Paris to London
This was one of those days when it wasn't always fun to travel, but it turned out great in the end, which makes me appreciate [...]
Day 5: Paris, Part 4 – Meandering in Montmartre
For a day I left unplanned intentionally and didn't do much by design, somehow I still have over 60 photos and walked 8.6 miles. I [...]
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 [...]
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