Visiting five continents in three days
In about 90 minutes I’ll be boarding a flight from JFK to Doha, Qatar. It is the start of a 29,000 mile, 6 day adventure....
Trip Reports
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A pilgrimage to Mt. Kyaiktiyo
Without any context this picture means roughly nil. With a tiny bit of background, however, it easily represents my greatest moment during the week we...
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Thousands and thousands of temples on the plains of Bagan, Burma
In researching our trip to Bagan I read a lot of different resources. Each of them dictated a specific list of which temples to visit...
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Winter wandering on the beaches of Jutland, Denmark
Gale-force winds and freezing temperatures are rarely the desired forecast for a beach excursion. Given that we were in Jutland, Denmark in the middle of...
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A wee bit of Viking history in Aarhus, Denmark
The timing of our visit to Aarhus, Denmark left a wee bit to be desired. I actually don’t really mind that we were there which...
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The “joys” of married segments and airfare pricing
When I wrote earlier today about the irrational manner in which airlines price tickets I didn’t really expect to find such a pointed example so...
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In flight: Copenhagen to Aarhus on SAS
The airports of Copenhagen to Aarhus, Denmark are only 84 miles apart. There isn’t a whole lot of time in-flight to worry about things like...
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And then there was that night we slept in the same bedroom as the new Pope
It was just over two years ago, in February 2011. It was St. Valentine’s Day, in fact. Maybe that should’ve been a tip-off that there...
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Inside Hannover’s New Town Hall
Looking at the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) in Hannover, Germany, I actually found myself thinking that the term “new” was some sort of a...
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Taking in a concert at Hannover’s Marktkirche
For all the time I’ve spent in the churches of Europe, looking at the stained glass windows and admiring the pipe organs I’d never actually...