The Mega Trip Part 9 (The Great Wall)
With the land-based portion of my adventure through China nearly over, I realized that I was still missing a significant piece of what I wanted to see before returning to Japan. Kung Fu. So, after […]
Somewhere around six months ago, I was sitting in my apartment talking on the phone with my mom. From just outside my window I could hear Buddhist monks chanting at Ninnaji, an enormous wooden temple […]
How many of you have heard the name “Transdniestr?” Not too many, I’m guessing. Transdniester – also known as Pridnestrovie in Russian – is a small rogue nation occupying a narrow strip of land along […]
I’m here. In Tokyo. Finally. During my idle time on the flight over I kept on thinking, “what am I going to write to everyone once I finally get to Japan?” Most of you already […]
You know how I’m always seeking out new and interesting experiences? Well last weekend I went drift racing. One of my coworkers, Miki, is extremely into cars. He has a Limited Edition Impreza (one of […]
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce that this post officially marks the first time in almost two years that I’m actually writing about the country I’m in! Welcome, at long last, to Cambodia 😀
Here I am – FINALLY, the real traveling has begun!
By the time Bauma had concluded I was fully recovered from my high fever the week prior. I loaded up my backpack, said goodbye to new buddy and roommate Joerg (the only USR employee other than myself to make it to Germany during the air-traffic freeze), and headed out at 5am for Schloss Neuschwanstein, aka “Mad Ludwig’s Castle.”
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Gutentag from Bavaria!
Yep, I made it – but only just barely.
The first thing I heard when my flight to Munich landed for its brief stopover in Newark was that a massive ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano was suddenly grounding dozens of flights to and throughout Europe. Continue reading »
In general, whenever I start a long and fast-paced trip I tend to fall increasingly behind on blogging – to the point that the last few weeks are almost always described from home, thousands of miles from where they actually occurred. Continue reading »
My flight to Munich departs in 6 hours. It’s 1am. I just finished packing. What next: sleep, or Lonely Planet?
What do you think? 🙂
How can I call this blog “Life of a Traveling Programmer” if I’m not even traveling? Has it really been more than a year since the last time I’ve left the United States? Yes, it has. And it’s the longest I’ve been here continuously since…well, since I can remember.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that all this time stuck at home has made me “unhappy,” but I will say that it hasn’t done wonders to make me the happiest guy around. I’m just not wired to be stuck in one place for this long…especially when that one place is here. But now, at loooong last, the time has come. Next stop: Europe!
In 2008 I visited Brazil, Panama, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Japan, Korea, China, and Hong Kong. The prior couple years included extensive travel throughout Japan and a few other countries in Asia and North America. But Europe, perhaps the most popular tourist destination in the world, has remained curiously absent from my itineraries since as far back as 2004.
It’s time for that little problem to be rectified. Continue reading »
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