I just came back from a trip to Amsterdam and the rest of the Netherlands. The goals were to enhance my Amsterdam photo-archive as well…
My oldest friend and I undertook a trip to Scotland this past week with the expressed goal of trying as many different Scottish whiskies as…
In 2014, I visited 5 foreign countries – of which 3 were first-time visits for me – and added 11 World Heritage sites to my…
Over 2,200 kilometres by car. Nearly 150,000 steps (if the pedometer is to be trusted). A couple of thousand shots that should yield at least…
Seeing family who we do not get to see often enough, having kids spend quality play time with their cousins, and fitting in some sightseeing…
A recent business trip took me to two countries farther east that I’ve ever been and to one country that I have not visited since…
All good things come to an end and our long-overdue family trip to Italy turned out to be no exception. It was fantastic. The trip…
Gary Arndt travels the world. I never got into any details of how that came around, but he apparently made a lifestyle change about six…
Once in a while, we decide to go for a beach vacation. It’s a pretty long while. Our last such vacation was a week-long stay…
Driving around on our college tour, one of the games that we occupy ourselves with is searching for different license plates on surrounding vehicles. Up…
I’ve been thinking for the longest time that the only reason I have to keep this website going is that my expat musings from the…
When we lived in England, we had a tradition of going to some interesting destination for my birthday. Be it Amsterdam, or Andalusia, or Rome…
I hope that every one of you had smashing time greeting the New Year! We did our usual thing with a group of our good…
This year, with the new baby, I managed to leave almost all of my allotted vacation time till the very end. Spending three weeks at…
Driving around the country in between sightseeing stops is one of my most favorite traveling pleasures. Pastoral landscapes aside, you can truly experience a foreign…
We have been back in the States from England for exactly a year, and Natasha made a fairly sad observation the other day: For the…
Where do you think I’d go for my first real vacation since repatriating? Duh! Europe, of course! We did not manage to visit Prague while…
Spent a few days in Chicago on business. The schedule was fairly packed, but I managed to squeeze in an evening with the little brother…
The kids will be out of school for two weeks in late March-early April, and we are suddenly faced with a dearth of places to…
For our first family trip since coming back to the US, we decided on a pilgrimage to Our Nation’s Capital. Ok, not exactly. In truth,…