This Week In Travel – Episode 40
This week’s guests are Greg Jourgenson of Bangkok Podcast and Kevin May. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
Month: May 2010
Baggage Autopsy: A review of the stuff I carry
I’m back in the US sitting in a makeshift office on a folding table in my parent’s basement amongst my boxed up former possessions. It makes a good opportunity to review the what, why and how’s of all the crap I carry with me. It normally isn’t something worth talking about, but the last few …
This Week In Travel – Episode 39
This week’s guests are Jessica Spiegel of BootsnAll and Spud Hilton, travel editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
My Transatlantic Hospital Odyssey
I’m writing this from the waiting room of the hospital my father is in. My trip back to Wisconsin is finally over. Getting here involved closed airports, four canceled flights, a delayed flight which almost caused me to miss my connection, a missing bag and a ridiculously priced car rental. Lets just say US Air …
Palmeral of Elche
From the Palmeral of Elche World Heritage inscription for the Palmeral of Elche: The Palmeral of Elche, a landscape of groves of date palms, was formally laid out, with elaborate irrigation systems, at the time the Muslim city of Elche was erected, towards the end of the tenth century A.C., when much of the Iberian …
Still Stuck in Spain
Bunch of things are happening to me: 1) I’m in Barcelona where my US Airways flight to the US has been canceled four times now. Every other airline seems to be crossing the Atlantic just fine and I know people who have beaten me back to the US, even though my flight was scheduled sooner. …
This Week In Travel – Episode 38
This week’s guest is Betty from the Betty in the Sky With A Suitcase Podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
Travel and Family Emergencies
Due to another eruption of the volcano in Spain, airports in Spain have been closed the last several days, especially the airports in Northern Spain where I am. I’ve been just continuing with my previously scheduled agenda of visiting the Basque Country while I’ve been waiting for the cloud to clear. I’m writing this at …
Canceling My Trips to Spain and Israel
I was notified a few days ago that my father was taken to the hospital after suffering sever pneumonia and possible heart attack. He is currently unconscious on life support. I’m going to cut my travels short to return to the US to be with my family. I’ll be arriving in Barcelona on Monday and …