I wish I could say that travel was all about the places you go, checking destinations off a list. But it’s not quite so easy. It’s also about when you were there. Places are ever-changing. They can be destroyed by natural disasters or war, evolve with a regime change, or even by…
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Hallo, God?
Outside St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, an older man dressed in a pristine white robe was preaching to the world. He would dance around the pigeons and pick up a phone – just a red receiver with a long cord, not connected to anything – and shout into it “Hallo?!…
Dominican Republic
Unattended Baggage
I was traveling back from Australia with about half of my possessions (2 large suitcases full of clothes), including a large photo I’d had custom framed for a friend’s wedding. I was unable to check it, but VirginAustralia made me pay to get it bubble-wrapped with such intensity that I…
Idaho
NASA Travel Posters
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory just released a series of vintage travel posters, called Visions of the Future, designed by visual strategists at JPL. The excellent graphic designs feature some recent advancements in space, complete with clever taglines. They advertise destinations into your imagination and tantalize us with a future of possible space travel.…
Surviving Long Flights
For those of us who don’t travel full-time, our vacations are sandwiched between two long flights and we don’t have the time to recover from jet lag. Here are some lessons I’ve learned along the way to help ease the pain of those long, international flights: Drink Water Yea, everyone’s…
Sweden & Finland
Photo Blog of Sweden & Finland 2015
Movies that Inspire Wanderlust
Cinema magic is the wonderful thing that fills your chest with bravado and for a few moments, you think – YEA, I can do that! I am a superhero! Or, in this case, it may push you to get out there and travel. Here are my favorite movies that inspire this sense of…
Left ID at Home
Flight to attend a work conference in Orlando: 8:55am 7:45am: Arrive at LAX via Lyft. Perfect timing to stroll onto my flight 7:48am: Boarding pass machine is out of ink. 7:50am: Enter short security line and quickly realize my driver’s license is in my pants pocket, back at home. I have no other…