We said goodbye to Edinburgh and drove to Aviemore. The Historic Scotland mobile app is really great and lets you find interesting stops along the way. On our […]
Scotland – Days 1-3: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Samer has heard me talk about visiting the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for many years. I love comedians and learned long ago that all UK comics pass through this […]
Scotland – Introduction
Scotland was never on my to-do list. Of course, I always found it charming. It always seemed interesting. But in all my years, I was never like, I […]
Europe 2023 – Conclusion
I’ve been to Europe some, but not a lot. I learned how to travel in South America, so I’ve never done a ton of tourism there. This trip […]
40 years old and Tulum
Birthdays are odds days. Especially a birthday that ends in 0. I turned 40 years old last week. It seems unbelievable to me. I don’t feel like I’m […]
Random memory from my time in Ecuador
I was watching old Conan clips today and for some reason, the one at the end of this post made me think of a memory from my time […]
My Birthday Weekend
Last weekend we decided to leave the city and head to a cabin in northeastern PA on Paupackan Lake. It was my birthday, I had been locked away […]
I read Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
I just finished J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. I am not interested in politically analyzing it, because that has been done. My political analysis of the book closely aligns […]
Josephine’s Ashes
I am not a spiritual person. I do not believe in an afterlife, and I do not have the patience needed to entertain the ideas of metaphysics. I […]