It is 7:30 AM and I’m sitting in The Hotel St. Louis, Autograph Collection. I don’t know what “Autograph collection” means but assume it is a marketing technique to make a hotel seem fancier than it is. This is my first time in St. Louis as well as this part of the country. Prior to…… Continue reading St. Louis Trip
Category: Travel
Places I’ve traveled.
2025 – Spain – Second Post
It is Sunday, April 13th and we’re on the flight home. I’d brought my laptop with the idea that I’d write a bit before bed during the trip but that never happens. So, I have a journal entry on the way to Spain and now a journal entry on the way home. It was…… Continue reading 2025 – Spain – Second Post
2025 – Spain – First Post
Spain Trip We woke up at 3:10 AM for a 5:50 AM flight. It is always a horror getting up that early but the benefit is that the flights are usually wide open and there is little traffic on the way there. There were 100 empty seats on the 5:50 AM flight where we might…… Continue reading 2025 – Spain – First Post
Journal Entry – On the Road
I’m sitting in Terminal A at Orlando Airport and have two hours before boarding. Travel is always such a surreal experience for me but as I’ve aged I’ve noticed there isn’t much excitement for it. I don’t look forward to packing, to the preparation and if for business, find I’m without emotion during the whole…… Continue reading Journal Entry – On the Road
Trip to Toledo Spain
It had been twenty five years since I’d last visited Toledo. I was a student and had just wrapped up the best six months I’d ever had. I had learned to converse in Spanish which was a great boost for my academic ego and had a lot of fun on top of it. I had…… Continue reading Trip to Toledo Spain
Trip to Paris
It has been twenty two years since I last visited Paris. Unfortunately I didn’t write much about that visit except in this entry from December, 2000. I was a student then wrapping up my six months studying French in Lyon and Besançon. My fellow students are now mothers and fathers with teenage children living the…… Continue reading Trip to Paris
Trip to Maui, Hawaii
I have been completely drained of energy since our return on a Thursday night red-eye flight after a fun yet exhausting five day trip to Maui, Hawaii. Part of it is probably jet-lag, another part is that I’m 44 and finally I’m most likely in an energy deficit since the trip was nonstop activity for…… Continue reading Trip to Maui, Hawaii
Thanksgiving 2021
It is Saturday morning on December 4th, 2021. The past two weeks have been extremely busy to due holiday and work travel. I returned home just last night at 10:30 PM and do not plan on leaving my house at all this weekend in order to recover. We went back to Ohio for Thanksgiving and…… Continue reading Thanksgiving 2021