I’ve been a few places. In these few places I’ve found things I love and things I hate. I’ll keep this out of my home states because it’s so easy to love/hate nearly everything about where you’re living/have lived. Domestic: Chicago Love: the Skyline Hate: The hotdogs… seriously.. cucumbers and tomato wedge? No chili? Denver [...]
I don’t necessarily mean offend the Japanese, which I’m sure I did – but in general I think I could have caused a few international incidents my last few trips to the Asia Pacific region of the globe. Here is what I learned so far: 1. These people are not ninjas. Though in Japan I [...]
At the onset of this “let’s go balls deep” searching the TSA is doing I had a trip to Europe lined up. A simple flight I’ve made many times before – Atlanta to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to London, London to Atlanta. All major airports and while they each have their own share of annoyances they’re fairly [...]
Amsterdam is an interesting place. It’s flat. There are more bicyclists than motorists. The people are all incredibility good looking and fit. The most shady place is the biggest tourist draw. Most importantly, for the sake of this post, is that they have a place called the Lighted Square and it’s got a ton of [...]
While in Japan I had my first ever experience with what I’ve come to call the “Robo-Loo”. Much like everything else there, it was very much shorter than the standard toilets I’m used to but it was beige, felt plastic (not porcelain), and had a control panel on the side with symbols – not the [...]
I made a few surprising discoveries while I was in Tokyo. First, they’re racist and not shy about it. Second, they hate my feet. I know it seems funny for a W.A.S.P. to be talking racism, but it’s the truth. There are many places over there that are (and I quote) “Japanese Only”. Sure, they [...]
For those of you not familiar with 4chan – good, keep it that way. For those of you who are and find the Pedobear Meme to be hysterical, I made sure that we were all getting pictures of the loli or sudo loli – and then discovered (and bought for my good friend t00r) the [...]
There is a story attached to this photo, I’ll finish it out when I get back to the States. However, Jon caught a good pic of my pale fat ass climbing a fairly tall rock at the beach.
Just a few pictures from my Tokyo trip. More to come (this is gallery 1 of 3) along with blog posts I never published (why the Japanese hate my feet and the evil toilet monster).
Even though I’ve been to my motherland (fatherland? what the hell gender is England?) a few times I still am in awe of just how old it is. The other night my co-worker and I sat in a pub that’s 300 years old. Remind me again, how old is America? Sadly the awe stops when [...]
So I’m headed to London in a few hours. I’m flying Delta, this is nothing new for me. I’m a decent level frequent flier and use them (or a partner) for just about all my air travel needs. This time, something was messed up though – I couldn’t select a seat. I called Delta and [...]
So where were we? Landing in Oakland. Right. I’m off the plane and on to baggage where I do the obligatory “wait for 30 minutes on my luggage” and suddenly find myself in a need to rush to catch a 1:00 bus from the airport up to Sonoma County. I ask the lady at the [...]
All quiet on the blog front for a while. It’s travel season. Part of it, like these last 10 days have been, is vacation – the rest, work. I decided to try and detach the ethernet cable that’s typically plugged into my brain 24 x 7 this trip. I only brought my phone with me [...]
After the ride on the Channel-Tunnel train, Gerd and I drove up to Dunkirk. It was a Sunday so not many people were around which made it nice to walk around the city and just take in a little bit. Saw everything from a church that was damaged in the war to some weird hydrofoil [...]
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