My Travels Around The World
June 2015
Day 3: Trier, Part 2; a Turkish neighborhood in Cologne
Turns out I didn't get to do much today. Good thing I didn't have anything specific planned. But the day started out great. I slept [...]
Day 2: Luxembourg American Cemetery & Trier
I woke up about 5:40am, just a little over 5.5 hours sleep. I felt rested but needed coffee, and there wasn't any in the room. [...]
Day 1: Luxembourg
We both slept a good 7 hours and woke up a little before 7am. We had breakfast at the hotel buffet, which was pretty decent. [...]
Departure: San Francisco to Cologne
Not too much to write about, just glad to have gotten here safe and sound. I left Davis Saturday afternoon and dropped the car off [...]
Pre-departure
I'm generally pretty focused on being in the moment. I'm a good planner and make time to do just that; then when I'm doing I'm [...]
April 2015
Easter for the non-religious
April 21, 2019 I originally wrote this on April 5, 2015. The "Indiana nonsense" was about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that had just passed [...]
February 2015
Employment vs. Religion vs. Freedom
It’s always entertaining to me when an employer suspends or fires an employee for something they said, and whoever disagrees with that decision comes back [...]
Maybe I’m a Confucian! (plus Gratitude for Grief)
The Confucian line is a joke. Choosing to live in the gray sort of requires that I never box myself in to someone else's ideology. [...]
January 2015
Evolving Choices
"Introduction" was my attempt to explain Living in the Gray along with the motivation for why I'm doing this now. I consider this to be [...]
Living in the Gray: Introduction
For years people have been telling me I should write a book. I’ve never been exactly clear on what they think I should write about. [...]
November 2014
Day 4 (Thursday, 11.27.14): Cozumel – Jon’s Neighborhood, Final Thoughts
It is now actually Friday morning, around 11am Central Time. I'm writing this in the American Airlines lounge at DFW. Because flights into and out [...]
Day 3 (Wednesday, 11.26.14): Chichen Itza
After a really good night's sleep for all of us, we headed down to breakfast at 7am. We are at the very beginning of "high [...]
Day 2 (Tuesday, 11.25.14): Valladolid & the X’keken Cenote
Yesterday, Tuesday, felt like a really long day because by the time we got back to our hotel I was beat, pretty much went straight [...]
Day 1: Cozumel
So technically this isn't Day 1, more like Day 1.5. And it depends on who you ask. It's Day 2 or 2.5 for Dan. We [...]
August 2014
It’s getting real
On Sunday, July 27, 2014, we met with the architect, Chris Ridgway, to review the first set of plans he drew up. These were based [...]
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