'travel' Category
Travel Topics (three of them)
I. One result of all our travels is that I always get a kick thinking about the provenance of my outfits. Today it’s a turtleneck and cardi bought in the Netherlands over a pair of jodhpur-ish capris bought in Arizona tucked into boots I got in Oregon. Socks were knitted by me while cruising around [...]
unheard of: spotting sun in Oregon AND the Netherlands
Sorry for the long silence here; I’ve just gotten back from Oregon. The weather was amazingly perfect: it rained a little on Friday afternoon, my last full day there (well after we rowed), but otherwise it was gloriously sunny and cloudless, warm in the day and cool at night as if someone was trying to [...]
back home again (hey, it’s good to be)
Well, I think I mostly managed to avoid jet lag in coming back home – I’ve slept pretty well all the way through the first two nights. Last night we went to bed a little early (by 9, normal is 10:30) and I woke up half an hour before the alarm clock, so that’s probably [...]
bad traveler, no sushi
(The title is meant in the sense of “bad cop, no doughnut”; I did have sushi one day for lunch.) I am being a bad traveler this weekend. Kyoto is about an hour and a half away and I’m not going to go there. (Commence whining – you’ve been warned.) It’s hot and it’s going [...]
Report on one-bag light packing experiment
Experiment failed. Well, that’s not strictly true – according to the scientific method, the experiment succeeded in disproving my hypothesis. LAB REPORT Hypothesis: one- bag method is more pleasant way to travel in all or almost all cases. Test subject: ten day business trip to Japan. No customer meetings but 15” laptop and reasonably professional [...]
packing (again)
Dear Amazon, I do not like the change to the way your Recommendations work. It’s not a New Release until it’s actually been released; that’s what “new release” means. Please quit recommending books that I won’t be able to read for months and months. It was much better before, when you had “new releases” and [...]
We’re back!
Actually, we’ve been back since Thursday; fortunately for us we had the rest of Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off before returning to work tomorrow. I’ve already blogged about the cruise, with photos, in two parts; Part I discusses all the places we visited and Part II is about the cruise itself, the ship and [...]
almost gone
Since I decided to take my big suitcase on our cruise after all (I was planning to pack light, but someone pointed out that maybe a cruise isn’t the best time for that) I’ve been tossing in a few extra things I might want: another pair of shorts. A third(!) black dress (dressy one, simple [...]
reunion trip
There’s a more guarded account of my family reunion, plus some pictures, at the other blog. This one is less censored but still entirely drama free, because my family is good that way. I have to admit that I wasn’t expecting to have all that good a time at the family reunion last weekend; last [...]
I wasn’t born a ramblin’ man…
I realized the other day that I have been traveling more than I thought: I’ve been in another country every single month since May 2011, and it will continue until at least July. Like this: June 2011: Budapest July 2011: Japan August 2011: Japan Sept 2011: Oregon Oct 2011: NY and PA Nov 2011: Japan [...]