Trains, Birthday, and Castles

After our experience the previous weekend with unreserved seats on the train from Vienna to Salzburg, we decided to reserve seats for our Innsbruck to Munich ride. It was another weekend trip, and more importantly, it was Jane’s birthday, so we couldn’t risk an inconvenient train ride. Well, that was the plan at least. About […]

Rock Me Amadeus

Salzburg translates to “salt fortress,” and it’s also known as the city of Mozart, as in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This dude rocks (more on that later). After a wonderful stay in Vienna (if you haven’t read Jane’s brilliant post, please do so), we took the 11:30 train from Vienna to Salzburg. Much to our surprise, the train […]

Expat Life

Since Sunday we have have the opportunity to experience expat life in Mexico. No, we didn’t relocate to Mexico, we spent the last few days with friends who moved to Mexico back in 2017. Our friends Sarana and Mark moved to Ajijic on Lake Chapala following the 2016 election. Needless to say he had a […]

Oceans Calling 2024

When a three-day music festival takes place 25 miles from my home, how can I not attend it? The crazy thing is that I bought tickets back in February or March when we were in Asia. Oceans Calling music festival took place this past weekend in Ocean City, Maryland. As someone who has attended approximately […]

Political Capital of the World

After a weekend of having a wonderful time hosting family members, Jane and I went kayaking in Rehoboth Bay. Upon our return we checked our phones and there were texts from our kids about President Joe Biden deciding not to run for reelection. We turned on CNN to hear more about his decision and it […]

Celebrating in Cleveland

Over the last few months we have been fortunate to travel to some exciting destinations like Bangkok, Hanoi, and Taipei. Upon our return to the states we visited the booming city of Nashville and the iconic city that is New Orleans. Last week we spent a few days in one of the great cities of […]

Jazz Fest

In 1994, Jane and I, along with our friends Karen and Jeff, attended our first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In the past thirty years, I have lost an exact count of the number of Jazz Fest’s that I have attended, but I believe it is somewhere in the 16-20 range. In the past, […]

Custom-Made Tuxedo

Sitting in Da Nang Airport as we wait for our flight to Taipei. We have spent twelve wonderful days in Vietnam with the last four nights staying at the Renaissance Hoi An Resort, where our suite had a beautiful view of the South China Sea. The beach and water were perfect. Hoi An has an […]

Makha Bucha Day

We woke up early this morning as we have a 10:15 flight to Ko Samui. We will be spending the next week at a few Thai islands Yesterday was Makha Bucha Day, an important day in the Buddhist calendar. In observance of Thai law and custom, the National Alcoholic Beverage Policy Committee issued a notification […]

Halfway to Hong Kong

We are off on our Asian adventure. We arrived in San Francisco last night after spending the day in Alexandria as we celebrated the first birthday of our grand nephew, Charlie. We upgraded our seats to United Polaris. For a sixteen hour flight, it was a good use of cash and points as the flatbed […]

Hello World!

This is our first trip that we are documenting on this platform. We will be visiting Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Taiwan. We have been planning this trip for the past few months. This is the longest trip we have taking together in our 31 years of marriage. Longest in terms of distance and […]