My Travels Around The World
August 2018
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 [...]
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 [...]
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