Our Oktoberfest Euro trek started in Zurich Switzerland. Alex, Mo, and I originally had a flight connecting through JFK New York and landing in Zurich at 7am. However, bad weather in NY caused our flight to be canceled. We were re-routed through London and finally arrived in Zurich around noon. We had a train scheduled
You heard it right – it’s time for Oktoberfest! Not at the local bar, not at a local German festival. Tomorrow, we’re going to the heart of it all – Munich, Germany! It’s the last weekend of the 200th anniversary of this fine festival. Alex, Mo, and I will slip on our liederhosen, blend in
Warning: this will be a fairly geeky blog post. But hopefully it’ll be entertaining too 🙂 Yes, it’s true. I have joined the Dark Side. Or is it the Light Side? Several of you will laugh at the irony. Yes, I’ve built many PCs from piece parts over the years. Yes, I’m the guy that
A business trip brought me to Salt Lake City on a Friday in July. The meeting was set up with little notice; we only had a week to make plans. Luckily, I didn’t have anything huge going on the following weekend, so I decided to make a mini-vacation out of it. You know it’s going
Arches National Park is a beautiful place, with a unique geology that features crazy rock formations everywhere. You can see over 2000 monoliths, rock fins, spires, balanced rocks, and natural arches in the park. Here’s a cool interactive map of the park, from the official park website. I made two trips to the park: one
It was late Saturday afternoon in Moab. I had just woken up from a peaceful air-conditioned siesta in the hotel, while the sun was bearing down outside with 105F temperatures. Hopefully it had cooled down a tiny bit. Time to head out again and do an evening hike. The original plan was to go back
Aside from Arches, Canyonlands National Park was the other major attraction to see on my Moab trip. Canyonlands is a very different land than Arches. In Arches, you look up or climb up to see most of the landmarks. The rock formations sticking up from the ground are is due to periods of geological turmoil
Arches National Park was so cool that I came back to see more the next day (Sunday). This time, the visit started in the early evening. My goal was to capture the warm evening sunlight against some of the rock formations I (intentionally) skipped the last time. In case you missed it, here’s a link
Asian food is yummy! For busy/lazy single folks like myself, Asian food is great because it’s fairly easy to make yet is pretty healthy (I think). Today I made some Thai peanut noodles with chicken for lunch. Here’s how it was done. The first thing to do is to figure out what ingredients to use.
Whew, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything. Sorry! Let me continue my travel blogging with Madrid. My flight in April to Istanbul required a layover somewhere in western Europe. Layovers are usually annoying. But this time, I thought I’d make the best of it by scheduling a long 11-hr layover in Madrid and