Great Swiss Railway Tour: Day 9
Synopsis Play Date in Zurich: No finalized plans, but strongly considering an interactive chocolate tour at the Lindt factory in Kilchberg just outside of Zurich. As I write this, no…
Great Swiss Railway Tour: Day 10
Synopsis Return home: an early morning flight from Zurich to Schiphol followed by a non-stop back to Minneapolis-St. Paul. Hoping for uneventful travel as we'll likely be tired, drained, and…
Duluth Dissed
In a recent New York Times article Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry on Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and the Who's Future, the interviewer asks about extending their (current) farewell tour:…
Busch Stadium
My wife and I recently drove to St. Louis for a tech conference I spoke at, and post-conference attended the Cardinals/Cubs game at Busch Stadium, our previous attempt scuppered to…
Las Vegas Athletics, Uggh!
Last week I spoke at KCDC which uses the Kansas City Convention Center. The street-level hallways contain a history of Kansas City - heavy emphasis on a larger-than-life civic leader…
Hawks in Wisconsin?
My wife and I spent a Sunday afternoon driving through western Wisconsin and ran across an ode to Hawkeyes in Barron. With the historical rivalry, animosity and even hatred between…
Hurtigruten Excursion #1: Ålesund
The first excursion selected for our northbound Hurtigruten Coastal Express was the Art Nouveau Walk in Ålesund, Norway. Ålesund is known for the art nouveau architecture during the town's reconstruction…
Open-Water Sunset
For various reasons - mainly clouds - It wasn't until our fourth full day on Hurtigruten's northbound Coastal Express that we were wowed by the sunset. Though the picture's metadata…
The Athens Acropolis and Museum
My Wow, I'm in Athens! moment came quickly after my arrival. After my driver picked me up at the airport and drove me to the hotel, I checked in and…
The Lost Cafe Schindler
An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria. Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at…