Given our love of music and food, Beth Ann and I had been talking about visiting Austin ever since we met, and unfortunately I had never made it down for SXSW. So, when we saw that the Memorial Day weekend weather was going to be classic Seattle spring (read: rainy), we booked a last minute…
One of the things that anyone who has ever blogged before knows is that it is like exercise… once you stop it is hard to get started again. I have had a ton of different things that I wanted to post, but the majority of them are longer entries and I haven’t had the time…
Wow… I have been trying to write this blog entry for the past 4 months but after spending 5 hours in the Atlanta airport this weekend, I finally got around to it. In short, it is a set of lists that Beth Ann and I put together on the back of some napkins as we…
I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday and I was shocked when he told me that despite the fact that he had just spent 2 weeks on vacation in Florida and Arizona, after one day at work he no longer felt that “vacation feeling”. I sympathized with him because after my first few…
A Colombian friend of mine sent me this compilation of various tourism commercials for Colombia. Many of the places that we are visiting (Bogota, Cartagena, Tayrona, Barranquilla) are shown. I particularly love the tagline: Colombia – el riesgo es que te quieres quedar Hoping that I can either buy a shirt with the phrase or…
I was sent this link and I had to write about it because 1) it is so rare that twin gorillas are born and survive and 2) because I had spent time in Bwindi NP in 2004 watching the gorillas and they are just amazing creatures. Check out the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081203/sc_afp/ugandawildlifegorilla_081203121032 …
As a frequent traveler to Las Vegas for work as well as pleasure, these time lapse photos taken by a friend, JP Wollersheim, that I work with really hit home for me. In particular the sunrise theme….. 8^) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPXhCM_qSRs&rel=1] You can see other time lapse photos at: http://www.youtube.com/jpwoller Technorati Tags: Las Vegas,time lapse photos
There was a great segment on 60 minutes tonight about the recent murder of a Congo mountain gorilla family earlier this year. Anderson Cooper reported about the mass murder as well as got video of his trek into the Rwandan side of the Virunga mountain range. The video brought back amazing memories of spending time…
As any of you that read this probably know, I very rarely write about anything that is created by Microsoft unless it is significantly better than anything else out there or just really cool and useful. For that reason, I wanted to write about the new version of Live Maps. While there are many Maps…
I can’t tell you the number of people that have sent me the latest article from Travel and Leisure which states that Philadelphia has the ugliest people in the US. Clearly it isn’t true based off the picture that they used in the article…. I mean, first the Phillies, then the Eagles, and now this. …