Category Archives: Travel

19 Hours In Las Vegas

Last weekend I found myself with a free weekend on another long work trip to San Diego.  In the past during these situations I had taken to exploring the area in and around San Diego, having really getting to know the city pretty well.  I had even ventured up into the mountains and to Los Angeles […]

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An Almost Christmas Vacation: Köln (Cologne)

Index: Part 1: Intro + Travel to Amsterdam Part 2: Amsterdam Part 3: Cologne Part 4: The Rhine + Trier Part 5: Luxembourg/Belgium Part 6: Paris Part 7: Return Home Sunday, December 9 It was this morning that I had a first – missing a train due to oversleeping.  I had booked the 10:35 Amsterdam to […]

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Chicago

Introduction The end of the year – although I had just got back from a trip to Europe a short while ago, I had felt the urge to still go somewhere in 2012.  I had been thinking of going somewhere for New Years Eve, as I had the previous year (to Montreal), but was wildly […]

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My 2012 Travel Year In Review

Since I got the good idea to do a recap of my year of travels last year, I figured I should probably go ahead and keep it up and recap 2012.  This year was a big one: two overseas trips, many domestic trips, Alaska (including the northernmost point in the US), and my first time […]

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An Almost Christmas Vacation: Amsterdam

Index: Part 1: Intro + Travel to Amsterdam Part 2: Amsterdam Part 3: Cologne Part 4: The Rhine + Trier Part 5: Luxembourg/Belgium Part 6: Paris Part 7: Return Home Saturday, December 8 On arrival to Amsterdam, I made my way through the crowds of passengers in the halls and headed straight for the KLM […]

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An Almost Christmas Vacation: Intro + Travel to Amsterdam

Index: Part 1: Intro + Travel to Amsterdam Part 2: Amsterdam Part 3: Cologne Part 4: The Rhine + Trier Part 5: Luxembourg/Belgium Part 6: Paris Part 7: Return Home Introduction The return to Europe; with the work entering a relatively slow period (hint: its not really that slow), I figured that now would be […]

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Caribbean Escape – Puerto Rico

Introduction: It had been a while since I had gone anywhere; the last time I had found myself in a airplane seat was mid-June for a work trip to a city that I’ve been to many times over.  As August continued on, I figured I should get out of town for Labor Day weekend.  With […]

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Rocky Mountain Adventure

Introduction Let me start out by saying, that I am way behind on things, especially when it comes to finally putting together my write up of a little weekend trip out to Colorado to do some hiking.  Not sure why it is taking this long, but what can I say; it’s been a busy month […]

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Spring Time In The Big Apple (Part 2)

Index: Spring Time In The Big Apple (Part 1) Spring Time In The Big Apple (Part 2) Sunday, May 6, 2012 Despite having been out pretty late the night before I surprised myself when I woke up only 6 hours later and not really feeling like I had as much to drink as I had […]

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Suitcase Time Capsule

If you remember, recently the carry on suitcase that I had used for a number of years finally met its end thanks to a Delta baggage handler in Nashville.  Well today, as part of doing some cleaning around the house, I started to go through my suitcase and found a time capsule of sorts.  Included […]

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