We landed in Marrakesh, Morocco a couple of days ago via a flight from Seville. (We’ve told HT that the reason he has to give up his froggy backpack at the security checkpoint is so they can check to make sure no aliens are inside. That’s something he can process pretty well, but makes for […]
Hi everyone, I’ll try to write more tonight, but am sharing a quick post now to say we made it safely to Morocco a couple of days ago. HT likes it here and it’s the same as anywhere else for CR. So far, the food has been wonderful and we’ve discovered the perfect way to […]
We left Sintra today after a great couple of days exploring this historic town about 30 minutes outside of Lisbon. As you can see from the picture below, the entire place is gorgeous, which is why the whole town has been named a World Heritage Site. Because of it’s beauty and status, naturally there are […]
Meant to add this picture at Big Ben with the other post. Here it is!
That’s how you say “good day” (or “good morning”) in Portuguese, and that’s what we had today. I’ll start by saying CR had the best day of all because he got to be strapped to his favorite person in the world all day, although the rest of us did really well too. It started right […]
Karen and I have flown to Europe many times between the two of us, but CR wasn’t the only one having a new experience during our flight a couple days ago–we’ve always taken overnight flights, but this time we left Chicago in the morning and landed in London around 10:30pm. After customs, etc., that put […]
When you and your spouse hear this several times a day, there’s maybe something to it. This isn’t a phrase we normally hear (at least not her,) so I’m guessing it must have something to do with the trip we’re taking. Tomorrow, we leave for London. We’ve been there a few times already. In fact, […]
I have a ton of work to do right now, which is probably why I’m procrastinating and surfing the internet. But, that did mean I found this interesting article and can now share it. The punchline? We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, […]
It was for $10.15, and I’m very proud. I am now a paid, published author. The Amazon image for my Kindle ebook: Outsourcing My Education In fact, out of the 394,993 books for sale at the Kindle store, mine is squarely in the top third of sales, ranked 127,224th overall. (That’s what 32 sales since […]
This past week has marked a couple of pretty big milestones for me, which is nice because they really belong together. Ten years prior to Wednesday, I met my wife, Karen, at the youth hostel we were both staying at in Dublin, Ireland. That’s us on that day with my brother Paul (who I was traveling with […]