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Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Ten Countries I Want to Visit

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  Mount Fuji, Japan My travel is mostly guided by opportunities.  For instance, in the fall, I plan to meet two friends in Europe and travel...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Flying to the USA Today--With an Unusual Travel Accessory (for me)

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Today the nine-month sojourn in Panama ends with two flights back to the USA.  Because the trip was really a temporary move, I had a very un...
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Sunday, June 16, 2024

Lancaster to JFK Airport by Five Trains

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  Often, the cheapest direct flights to Europe fly from JFK Airport in Queens on the very eastern edge of NYC.  But that cheap fare and dire...
Friday, May 31, 2024

What a Changed Trip Looks Like: A Weekend Car Trip Expands to Include Six Train Trips and a Metro Ride

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  On Memorial Day Weekend, my wife and I were supposed to make a trip to Richmond on Saturday the 25th and return on Sunday the 26th. The oc...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Eurail Pass App--So Much Better and Cheaper than Tickets

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When I wrote about airlines, good and bad, my conclusion was: choose the airline with the best app, because data matters .  This year I boug...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Ig Nobel Moment on a German Train

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Brain activity in dead salmon On the train from Utrecht to Frankfurt, I sat at a table with Max, a German man in his thirties on the way to ...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Two Rides in Paris; Two Decades Ago

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In September 2000 I made two trips to Europe to attend several business meetings.  Both trips took me to Paris, first for three days, t...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

All My Passport Stamps--Memories Rebuilt

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After I returned from my most recent trip to Europe and Israel, I decided put together a spreadsheet of the stamps in my passports.  Lik...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

February: My Month for Big Trips

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Twas the Night Before Basic--The Plane Ride Was Rough Forty-eight years ago this week, I was saying goodbye to my family and friend...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Who Fights Our Wars: Marine Veteran on a Local Train

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--> Recently I rode to Philadelphia from Lancaster. After 50 miles, I knew I was going to be late, so I rode to a stati...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Traveling in Class A Uniform

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This week I was in Texas from Monday to Thursday.  Rather than travel in our digital camo uniform, I decided to travel in Class A uniform.  ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Real Life After Travel and Deployment

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On Monday night I got back from San Antonio after midnight.  I started to unpack, did a load of laundry, took out the trash and watched TV b...
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