travel

As I've said before, we did a piece of this trip 10 years ago, in the same Subaru Outback we took this time. 10 years ago it was a new car, purchased in 2012. Now it is not. So inevitably, once we're 50 km over the…

It's a 5 hour drive from Bar Harbor to Fundy National Park in New Brunswick, plus a border crossing that went very quickly. We set out early to make sure we had plenty of time to settle in once we got there. One thing I…

In Bar Harbor we stayed in a Inn outside of town, largely because it had both an indoor and outdoor pool and my daughter has gotten into swimming this year. That seemed to weather proof us for some activities. The room…

10 years ago my wife and I had taken a 2 week road trip through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine. During that trip we stayed at Fundy National Park in a Yurt. And we definitely wanted to come back. In 10 years, a…

One-Room Schools at the Vermont Folklife Center . For grades 1 - 5, I was educated in a one room schoolhouse. A throw back to a time before cars, given that everyone had to be able to walk to their school. In small towns…

The most memorable sign from our vacation, presented without additional comment.

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It's hard to sum up a long and varied vacation, but a map is probably a good place to start. Below is where we stayed, in order, over the course of this epic summer vacation... By the numbers: Length: 17 days Driving…

Note: everything else about the vacation is going to be positive, but I needed to mini rant about this one. One of the unfortunate things about leaving the country is returning. Not because it's not great to come home,…

One of the the things I was testing on this vacation was getting a foreign sim card to work on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3. LTE phones on Verizon all take sim cards now, and as of the 4.1 update for the S3 it's…

I learned something interesting over these last two weeks, which is how to disconnect from work on vacation without loosing the connection to home and friends. In a connected age, it's hard to get one without the other,…

One of the more impromptu parts of our vacation was a realization that without going too far out of the way (adding only about an extra hour of driving to DC) we could hit up the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in…

We just returned from a road trip of a vacation, where we visited many friends and family. It was sort of like the vacations we've taken in far away lands, except instead of jumping on a plane or a train every 2 - 4…

No matter how many times you've seen a Shuttle launch on TV, you are not prepared for the event in person. This was made even better by being surrounded by fans and enthusiasts of the US Space program. The only other…

So many of my adventures over the last 10 years have been because I met and made such a good and diverse pool of friends while I was at Wesleyan University. These adventures have taken me visiting to Puerto Rico, India,…

I knew that Airline pricing was pretty crazy, but I didn't realize it was this crazy: Passengers flying to or from airports that are dominated by a single carrier — like Memphis, Newark or Dallas/Fort Worth — pay fares…

If you had told me the biggest community Linux event in the United States took place in Columbus Ohio, I don't think I would have believed you before this last weekend. But Ohio Linux Fest blew away all my expectations,…

But as a preview for pictures to be uploaded once we get back, Yosemite is definitely spectacular.

For those interested, this is roughly the vacation path we're taking (we're currently at E).

I'm still sorting out how I'm going to do photos in the future, as the old photo album is pretty much under decay, and my interest in the old workflow for publishing has waned. On the viable options from, Smugmug looks…

Nick and I chatted the other night, catching up on all things life and work. Nick has kicked off his 4th semester as a professor at West Virginia Tech , adding a new class on open source software development to the…

I'm finally overcoming the jet lag from our trip, and starting to feel like a normal person again. While I've been to a lot of other countries before, I've never had this kind of culture shock in returning to the states.…

Just a quick post, as my body thinks it's currently 2 AM. Susan and I are back from our India adventure, which should provide some solid material over the next couple of weeks as I manage to digest it all.

The tickets are now booked for our trip to India over the holidays. Our friend Sourav is getting married in Calcutta on January 2nd, so it made a very good reason to make the trek over there. We'll be spending a good…

From our vacation last month. Something about the juxtaposition of muscle car vs. self propelled boat amuses me.

This is how I spent my anniversary, with my wife Susan on the Otter Creek in Vermont. A nice 4.5 hour kayak trip, totally 9.5 miles. We stopped about half way through for a picnic lunch which included the last of our…

The greatest value of vacation is it snaps you out of your normal routine. In the absence of the standard trappings of the 21st (as we were in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota for the entire trip), I brought a stack of…

This past weekend Susan and I did something different, and took a trip down to Philadelphia for the annual flower show. The idea first surfaced a couple of weeks ago when Susan brought up the fact that it was coming up,…

Susan and I went up to Vermont for my father's 65th birthday this weekend, and actually got two 1.5 hr cross country skis in while we were there. During the ski I realized that while the skis I have now are quiet good…

Earlier this week I ordered 25 calendars, and that, minus gifts for my wife, constitutes my Christmas shopping for the year. The calendars come from Shuttterfly, and are a series of pretty spectacular (if I do say so…

First pass through the honeymoon pictures, and I'm down to 220 out of 713, which can be seen at my album (no longer online). I'll end up doing a second culling later to get it down further, but there are actually…

(check out part 1 first) Day 6 (Sun) Got up reasonably early and started our trek from Butte to Yellowstone. 75 mph interstate highways make that trek a lot less than it could have been. The last 60 miles to yellowstone…

This is probably coming in 2 parts, though we'll see how the rest of the writing goes. I hope it's complete enough to get a flavor of, and once I get pictures up I'll link them in as well. Day 1 (Tues) Never went to…

Susan and I are in Butte, MT for the night, on our way to Yellowstone from Glacier. Butte gives us a chance to get some laundry done in the hotel, as all of our hiking clothes are quite solidly rank at this point.…