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Back in May 2010, I desperately needed a vacation – it’s hard to describe how much I needed to get away in that moment. I ended up in Antalya, Turkey, for several nights – flying Sky Airlines to and from the city. The airsickness bag, one of only a small number I’ve ever taken […] A month ago, I was on vacation in The Gaspésie, a piece of Quebec. It was a relatively short vacation – essentially 10 days away from Berlin, including travel time. I flew to Montreal, rented a car, and then drove around The Gaspésie, the peninsula that forms the area south of the Saint Laurence […] Earlier this year it dawned on me that the configuration of Christmas and New Year’s landing on Tuesdays meant that I could take from December 22nd through January 1st off – 11 days – using exactly two vacation days. Surely anybody who knows me, knows that I look at this as an opportunity […] I’m fresh back from a trip to Saskatchewan – my ninth Canadian province – meaning that I have one to go, plus the three territories. My explicit goal is the complete the provinces, but I am not sure I will attempt the territories: while the Yukon and Northwest Territories are easy, Nunavut is shockingly expensive […] November was spent going around the world, with my first stop being Cape Town. I had two goals: quality time on the beach and visiting a township. Both were accomplished: I spent a day at Sandy Bay Beach. Although I’d picked a B&B close to the beach – Chapman’s Peak Bed and Breakfast – […] Wow… This month is flying by, and things are, at least for now, going pretty well. I skipped out of town last weekend – driven out of town by the prospect of being within drum earshot (and only drum earshot) of a “music” stage set up to motivate the runners of the Berlin Marathon. My […] This month, for the first time since January, I had the time to take a vacation – leaving the boundaries of Berlin, hopping into metal tubes, and escaping to Immenstadt and Kiel – opposite ends of Germany, but fulfilling personal wishes to see friends and hit the beach. I managed to spend three […] I visited the Statue of Liberty, what could be more American than that? On my way out of the office, one of my colleagues asked me if I was heading to the States – and I said, “no.” – but then I changed my answer: “Yes, I am actually going to the United States […] I’m in Portland, Oregon. Home of so many wonderful things, including VooDoo Doughnuts, where good things come in pink boxes. Pink boxes signal great doughnuts — and a long line, even at 5pm. Three VooDoo Doughtnuts: The top is a “cock and balls”, then lower left is a dirty doughnut and on the […] 
Monday was a great day: we visited the Ute Mountain Tribal Park. The Ute Mountain Tribal Park is a park on the Ute Mountain reservation, and it surrounds Mesa Verde National Park – and it has a lot in common with Mesa Verde: spectacular scenery and cliff dwellings, to name two. It also lacks something […] |
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