My Travels Around The World
June 2017
Day 3, Jun 28: Istanbul, Part 3
Thankfully, I slept about 7 hours last night with only a couple of interruptions. Dan slept well, too, so we were glad to be ready [...]
Day 2, Jun 27: Istanbul, Part 2
Dan made up for his bad first night last night and slept easily until 6am, about 7 hours. He says he would have slept longer [...]
Day 1, Jun 26: Istanbul, Part 1
I managed to sleep about 6.5 hours and got up about 5:45. Dan only slept about 4 hours and had been up since 3am. Breakfast [...]
Departure: Sacramento/Raleigh to Istanbul
As I type it's coming up on 10am ET Saturday morning. I'm in the British Airways lounge of Terminal 7 at JFK. I took a [...]
Pre-Departure
As I mentioned in our recent Chicago blog, that was the beginning of a bunch of travel for us, especially if you're Dan. That was [...]
May 2017
Monday, May 29: Chicago – Day 3 and home
I'm writing this Tuesday morning, May 30. I took today off as well and I'm so glad I did. Today I get to do what [...]
Sunday, May 28: Chicago – Day 2
I didn't go to bed until after 1am last night, which is late for me by any standard, since I'm generally in bed by 9:30pm [...]
Saturday, May 27: Chicago – Day 1
I don't remember what time I went to bed last night; 11pm probably. Dan was already asleep. We were up a little after 5am. Breakfast [...]
Friday, May 26: Catch-up and Travel Day
I'd started writing this thinking I would do a little synopsis of the year since our last blog, in LA for New Year's weekend. I [...]
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 [...]
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