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 […]
On December 20th of 2006, I received an e-mail from my dad. It contained this Powerpoint file. The forwarding messages all included such phrases as: “I CANT EVEN LOOK AT THE PICTURES WITHOUT GETTING DIZZY!!” […]
“They are an intriguing people. From the moment they wake, they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue. I have never seen such discipline.” -The Last Samurai. Seeing that fantastic archery demonstration the […]
Picture yourself looking up at a blue sky peeking through a huge canopy of leaves on a perfectly clear day in Kyoto. As the faint sound of Japanese flutes recedes softly into the background, it’s […]
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 […]
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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