My Travels Around The World
January 2017
Day 2: Saturday, December 31 – The Getty
Happy New Year everyone! It's New Year's Day, about 6am as I start this. Dan had a 9pm flight to Raleigh last night; I was [...]
December 2016
Day 1: Friday, December 30
Our lives are definitely about travel these days. After a great stay in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving, we each went home for a very full month [...]
November 2016
Day 3: Saturday, 11/26 – Still More Philadelphia
I am writing this Sunday evening from home in Sacramento. We had a great day in Philadelphia yesterday and just decided to enjoy the evening [...]
Day 2: Friday, 11/25 – More Philadelphia
I managed to sleep 8.5 hours last night, which I haven't done probably since our last vacation in August. That caught me up a little [...]
Day 1: Thursday, 11/24, Thanksgiving Day
I had a 7:30pm flight out of Sacramento Wednesday night, which got me here about 7am Eastern after an almost 3 hour layover in Phoenix. [...]
Pre-Departure
It hadn't occurred to me to blog this trip until a couple of folks (one of them being Dan) asked somewhat expectantly if I was [...]
September 2016
Day 12, Sun 9/4: Going Home & Final Thoughts
[Started this Sunday morning in Berlin; finished it Monday morning at home.] Since we are going home to separate cities, we are of course on [...]
Day 11, Sat 9/3: Berlin, Part 2
What a day. We packed a lot in and were pretty happy with it by the time we were done. The photo editing though is [...]
Day 10, Fri 9/2: Potsdam and a bit of Berlin
Today was pretty light. We were both pretty tired and feeling the full effects of the prior 9 days. It's shocking to me now to [...]
Day 9, Thu 9/1: Berlin, Part 1
It's not quite 5am on Friday morning as I start this. We got back to the room last night a little before 10pm, which is [...]
August 2016
Day 8, Wed 8/31: Dresden, Part 2
It's only 5:00 and we are done for the day, well sort of. We finished our agenda early and decided to continue with the "take [...]
Day 7, Tue 8/30: Dresden, Germany
[Wow, this internet is so much faster than the one in Prague!...actually the one in Vienna, too...] We set the alarm for 6am, packed up [...]
Day 6, Mon 8/29: Prague Part 2
We came back to the hotel early escaping a thunderstorm, but we were pretty much done with our day anyway. I thought "yay, I can [...]
Day 5, Sun 8/28: Prague, Czech Republic
Dan slept pretty good. I just slept OK - kept waking up - but wasn't concerned about it because I knew it would be a [...]
Day 4, Sat 8/27: Bratislava, Slovakia
We each slept well and headed down to breakfast just after 7am. What started out as a leisurely morning thinking we had lots of time, [...]
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