Travel Blog

In 2014, I started to write about all my travels, and the ten major vacations that I have written about so far have yielded some of the most exciting memories of my life.

I understand my posts can get verbose (sometimes a single two-week holiday may expand to as long as tens of thousands of words), but please bear with me as I strive to capture every little memory and every fine detail, as those are oftentimes the moments most profound and special.

Please enjoy reading about my travels as much as I enjoyed traveling them. I hope they might give you ideas for what to do when you visit all these amazing places!

Las Vegas (4/20/24-4/26/24)
There Was Madness in Any Direction (4/20/24)
Reality Itself Is Too Twisted (4/21/24)

A Quite Nautical Trip (11/10/23-11/18/23)
Come Sail Away with Me (11/10/23)
Set an Open Course (11/11/23)
And This Is What They Said (11/12/23)
We’ll Search on Every Shore (11/13/23)
But Somehow We Missed Out (11/14/23)
I’ll Try to Carry On (11/15/23)
They Sang to Me (11/16/23)
Look to the Sea (11/17/23)
We Headed for the Skies (11/18/23)

New Orleans Revisited (10/13/22-10/20/22)
Living Easy, Loving Free (10/13/22)
Fever All through the Night (10/14/22)
What I Find Is Pleasing (10/15/22)
How Sweet and Wonderful Life Can Be (10/16/22)
Living It Up in the City (10/17/22)
E tutto brilla, e tutto scintilla (10/18/22)
In and Out of Town (10/19/22)
It’s Time for Celebrating (10/20/22)

Unas vacaciones en Puerto Rico (02/22/22-03/05/22)
¿Puedo tener una servilleta? (02/22/22)
Gringos (02/23/22)
¡Cabrón! (02/24/22)
Buenas tardes. Una mesa para tres. No tengo una reserva. (02/25/22)
Save the gatos (02/26/22)
Se perdió el mercado europeo (02/27/22)
Tres hombres guapos en la playa (02/28/22)
Creo qué voy a estar enfermo (03/01/22)
Yo soy un chico de la isla (03/02/22)
Queremos muchas comidas y bebidas, por favor (03/03/22)
¿Entiendes esta palabra? (03/04/22)
¡Muchas gracias! ¡Adiós! (03/05/22)

A Holiday in Colorado (10/10/20-10/16/20)
Would You Like a Sack? (10/10/20)
Which One Is Good for Laughing? (10/11/20)
Do You Have a Table Outside? (10/12/20)
Are We in an Episode of Portlandia? (10/13/20)
Can You Imagine This Place in the Summer? (10/14/20)
Could You Microwave Our Wine? (10/15/20)
Is That Ash in Our Beer? (10/16/20)

Returning to England and Paris (11/17/19-11/29/19)
The Corner of One Country (11/17/19)
New, Beautiful, Brilliant Words (11/18/19)
The Most Interesting (11/19/19)
The Scenic Route (11/20/19)
It Must Be 1066! (11/21/19)
There’s Always Something to Look At (11/22/19)
Places to Go (11/23/19)
Forgetting Something (11/24/19)
Trying to Be Funny (11/25/19)
Where to Begin (11/26/19)
It Has a Bouquet (11/27/19)
So Much Else to Remember (11/28/19)
Everything Begins Again (11/29/19)
One Day I Shall Come Back (Conclusion, Part 1)
Travel Does Broaden the Mind (Conclusion, Part 2)
Find Out Where You’re Going (Conclusion, Part 3)

New York City (10/9/18-10/11/18)
Unwarranted Standing Ovations Here, Too, I Guess (10/6/18)
Twists and Turns and Irish Catholics (10/7/18)
Flowerful Delights on a Grey, Foggy Day (10/8/18)
Humble Resting Places amongst Green Hills and Aged Trees (10/9/18)
I Lift My Lamp beside the Golden Door (10/10/18)
Celebrating in Food and Music (10/11/18)

Scotland (7/29/17-8/11/17)
The Dear Green Place (7/29/17)
The Quite Old Places (7/30/17)
The Fancy Old Palace (7/31/17)
The Fancy Dreamy Castle (8/1/17)
The Opulent Dreamy Residence (8/2/17)
The Opulent Colorful Spaces (8/3/17)
The Magical Druid Spaces (8/4/17)
The Magical Open Sea (8/5/17)
The Sublime Open Circles (8/6/17)
The Sublime Incredible Loch (8/7/17)
The Beautiful Incredible Mountains (8/8/17)
The Very Gorgeous Mountains (8/9/17)
The Really Gorgeous Country (8/10/17)
The Really Fantastic Journey (8/11/17)

New York City (10/7/15-10/13/15)
Falling into a Magical World (10/7/15)
At the Whims of Thought, Fondly (10/8/15)
Mad Eats (10/9/15)
Idiotic Berks and Glorious Flowers (10/10/15)
Loud Music, but Strength in Choreography (10/11/15)
Put Me to Sleep Already (10/12/15)
This Is the End of It All (10/13/15)

New Orleans (1/17/15-1/23/15)
Lawless Postmodernism? (1/17/15)
Poor Boys? (1/18/15)
Oldest Cocktails? (1/19/15)
Old Cemeteries? (1/20/15)
No Privileges? (1/21/15)
Smoke Free? (1/22/15)
O tempora o mores! (1/23/15)

England (9/27/14-10/12/14)
The Same as with Everywhere Else (9/27/14 & 9/28/14)
Oncoming Traffic in Middle of Road (9/29/14 & 9/30/14)
There’s Lovely, My Dove (9/30/14 & 10/1/14)
Why Isn’t There a Roundabout Here? (10/2/14 & 10/3/14)
Resurrection of the Daleks (10/4/14 & 10/5/14)
The Chase and the Visitation (10/6/14)
The Day of the Doctor (10/7/14)
Spearhead from Space and the War Machines (10/8/14)
The Invasion (10/9/14 & 10/10/14)
The Dalek Invasion of Earth (10/11/14 & 10/12/14)

Bennington, Vermont (8/10/14-8/15/14)
Where It’s Always Sunny (8/10/14)
Notes of Unusual Size (8/11/14)
Cascade Things (8/12/14)
Fish and Maple Syrup (8/13/14)
It’s Better without the Bartok Pizz. (8/14/14)
I’d Never Write That Now (8/15/14)

Michigan (3/4/14-3/7/14)
Cities Made of Smoke, People Made of Song (3/4/14)
A Moment Unprepared For (3/5/14)
A Preference for Lights on Wires (3/6/14)
A Lens of Truth and an Awful Lot of Work to Do (3/7/14)