My Travels Around The World
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 [...]
Day 4, Dec 26: Warner Bros. Studios; Pasadena, Part 2
Breakfast in the hotel returned to its 6am weekday schedule on Tuesday so we went down when it opened. After we relaxed in front of [...]
Day 3, Dec 25: LA Neighborhoods
We had a light schedule on Christmas Day, which we knew we would and were looking forward to a relaxing day. We took our time [...]
Day 2, Dec 24: Pasadena & Glendale
This was Sunday, for those of us (namely me) having trouble keeping track of what day it is. We had breakfast in the hotel and [...]
Day 1, Dec 23: Huntington Library
Day 1 of vacation. I'm so happy to be off I can't seem to remember what day it is. I kept thinking it was Friday; [...]
Catch-up & Departure
For some reason I am always a little ambivalent about blogging for these more local trips. I think maybe it's because they're shorter, and/or I [...]
July 2017
Day 13, Jul 8: NYC, Part 2 – Brooklyn; + Final Thoughts
We packed it in until the end. We had a 10am Walking Tour scheduled - with the same guy who did the one Friday we [...]
Day 12, Jul 7: NYC, Part 1 – Lower Manhattan
We had come to NYC in 2014 after returning from 2 weeks in Europe, mostly as part of a strategy for managing jetlag and layovers. [...]
Day 11, Jul 6: Abingdon & Windsor
No Oxford Part 2 we decided. Dan was over it by the time we woke up. We thought about all the options of returning and [...]
Day 10, Jul 5: Goodrich Castle, Oxford Part 1
Turned out to be a frustrating travel day. I suppose you have to have them sometime. If so, it's nice to have them in great [...]
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