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Posted in life on Sep 1st, 2008
For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be on vacation. Posting will be sparser than usual on zanshin.net. But I do hope to be posting daily (or close to it) on our combined site at sibylleandmark.wordpress.com.
Posted in life on Aug 11th, 2008
On our trip to Europe this year, Sibylle and I will be doing some travel by train. Our flight to Europe lands in Zürich, and we are taking the train to Stuttgart from there. Wanting to take advantage of some special rates for trains starting or ending in Germany we went ahead and booked our [...]
Posted in life on Aug 4th, 2008
In order to renew her passport, Sibylle needed to travel to Chicago, where the nearest German Consulate is located. We debated several options for getting her to the city and back again. Flying by herself, the pari of us driving, or the pair of us flying.
At the start of the weekend we were prepared [...]
Posted in life, nerdliness on Jul 24th, 2008
Sibylle and I are preparing for our next overseas trip, which starts in just six weeks. Travel brochures, train schedules, dreaming of places to go, et cetera. Last year, after some deliberation, we opted to not take a laptop with us. Instead I took a 40 GB drive in a USB/Firewire enclosure, and the card [...]
Posted in life on Sep 12th, 2006
I’m getting ready to take a week’s vacation with my father in Oregon, and I am finding myself somewhat down. Normally in the days before a trip I’d be up and excited, but this trip is different on many levels and for many reasons.
Except for a brief three-day jaunt last January, this will be the [...]
Posted in life on Jan 11th, 2006
In a few days I am scheduled to take a short trip, a mini-vacation if you will. Not counting funerals this will be the first time off and travel that I’ve had in over a year. Actually it has been closer to two years since I had any real vacation time. I know that the [...]
Posted in random on Jun 12th, 2005
Yesterday Michele and I traveled home from Norfolk. On Friday evening, after the funeral was completed we decided to return to Norfolk and spend the night in a motel with shuttle service to the airport. Our flight was at 9:10 am, and we didn’t want to be up at 4:00 to make the long drive [...]
Posted in life on Dec 19th, 2002
For years when I have traveled I have treated the whole experience as something to be done as efficiently and quickly as possible. If I were taking a week off I would arrange my flights in the evening so I could work a full day before going. Then I would return at the last minute, [...]
Posted in life on Dec 10th, 2002
My wife and I are taking a trip to Hawaii later this month. This will be my first trip there and her second. We are taking a 7-day cruise through the islands to celebrate her birthday, our 5th wedding anniversary, and Christmas.
Originally I was only going to take off 6 days plus Christmas for a [...]
