Down To Kempten
On Tuesday and Wednesday, I took some time off work for my first solo overnight out-of-town journey by train since arriving in Germany. It’s been pretty cold for the last few days, with the temperature...
View ArticleFrankfurt In One Day
A few weeks ago, I took an overnight trip to Frankfurt to attend a Thomas Dolby concert. The concert was excellent, but my train rides into and out of Frankfurt left me with plenty of time to do a...
View ArticleConcerts
This is not, strictly speaking, a post about Europe, but it ties together. With the Jazz Festival in town this weekend, I’ve been getting to see a lot of interesting bands, which got me thinking. I...
View ArticleLike a shark.
I’ve heard it said that the first person you meet when you go abroad is yourself. I’ve found this to be kind of true for myself. I’ve learned some things about myself that are no surprise at all, but...
View ArticleAin’t No Party Like A Tollwood Party
I rang in the new year with Hanley and Esther at the awesome 2012 Tollwood Silvester Party. Hanley wrote about it in her own blog, so if you read both of us, this will seem like a bit of a repeat. The...
View ArticleMozart’s Balls Are Delicious
So far in the crazy travel-heavy month of May, I’d already visited Venice, Rome, Vatican City, and Dublin. For my last trick in May, I also spent a couple of days in Salzburg. I took hundreds of...
View ArticleTravel Tools: For The Frequent Concert Attendee
(Editor’s note: This is not a paid advertisement. I get no kickbacks from writing about this stuff. It’s just things that I use regularly and find to be incredibly useful.) The vast majority of my...
View ArticleLuxembourg City
My trip to Belgium concluded with a one night stay in Luxembourg City so that I would have a little bit of time to check out the place. My hotel was directly opposite the train station, and I already...
View ArticleNordic Adventure, Part 4: Oslo
The third stop in my traipse through the Nordics after Helsinki and Stockholm was Oslo. I traveled from Stockholm to Oslo by train, a decision I actually kind of regret. It took three or four times...
View Article`Twas The Weekend Before Thanksgiving…
The weekend before Thanksgiving was a most eventful one for me. I spent most of the day on Saturday at the car dealership with my brother, going through the motions of the dance that is car...
View ArticleMinneapolis is not Japan.
I know y’all are waiting for my Japan posts, and I promise they’re coming. I have some other stuff that needs to be posted, though, so I’m going to alternate between Japan and not-Japan for a bit....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Repatriation day plus one year.
A lot of my friends do this thing on Facebook called Throwback Thursday, where you post a really old photograph of yourself, but I realized a few days ago that this Thursday would be the first of...
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