It’s hard to sleep in the wild animal kingdom. The last two days I thought I was beginning to turn the corner but I get awoken by a lone wild turkey at exactly the same time. He(?) steps slowly on … Continue reading
Category Archives: USA
I can’t sleep in the best of times, plus now I have jet lag. Everyone assumes that since I am home I can sleep better, but I can’t sleep well anywhere. Last time I came home with jet lag, for … Continue reading
In case you didn’t know, it isn’t fun to drag 27kg (60lbs) of stuff from one side of greater Tokyo to the other and beyond to the airport. It involved multiple train transfers and I managed to make a Japanese … Continue reading
It looks like it is going to happen. I plan to use 25,000 frequent flier miles to fly home on a one-way ticket. I realized I made a tactical mistake with my miles. I should have bought a ticket to … Continue reading
If you go to American’s website you will see that the processing charges are thus: Ticketing less than 21 days prior to departure: $0 Travel ticketed 20 – 7 days prior to departure: $50 Travel ticketed 6 days to 2 … Continue reading
I was in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. I talk about it as an aside on my CouchSurfing and Servas page (Is it narcissistic to quote myself?): “I was in New York to volunteer for a few hours … Continue reading
This summer there are flights from Amsterdam to Boston and New York for around $376 one way and Amsterdam to Seattle for about $440 one way including taxes on Airtech. I will explain what Airtech is soon in my website … Continue reading
I picked up my new passport today. It is my 6th passport, but it will be hard to say goodbye to number 5. I got it prematurely in Bogota, Colombia, because I wanted to visit Saudi Arabia and the previous … Continue reading
I decided to get my passport renewed even though it has one more year’s validity since rates are going up by 50% next week. Plus, some countries won’t issue you a visa if you have less than six months validity to your passport. I only … Continue reading
I am sure I have set a record for most days in the Washington DC area without actually going into Washington DC, middleweight division, but today I did it. I took the metro into town. It’s a shame all the … Continue reading
