I want to start out by saying that I grew up at an environment where money was used to express how much better people were than others. Wealth was used as a way to say that I have something you can’t have. And I must say I never liked that very much. So for me, … More A Spiritual Experience in the Material World
Bern was founded in 1191 and joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353. Among other things it’s a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site and it is where Einstein came up with his famous equation E=MC^2. Needless to say it has ALOT of history. So I started out at the Swiss Museum of History and followed that … More Bern Baby Bern
So Lucerne his a historical town in Switzerland. It’s main feature is a wall and nine towers built back starting in the 1400s. It’s old town is filled with restaurants, shops, and tourists from all over the world. There are endless sidewalk cafés and restaurants beckoning. A mix of French, German and English is spoken … More Lucerne
This is my get to know Switzerland quick plan. I have landed in Geneva and spent today walking around, tomorrow I am hitting Lucerne and then Bern for a day. Then back to Geneva to meet up with my buddy Grant
You might call me anal, you might call me obsessive, you might even call me totally obsessed and you would be right on all fronts. I have been blessed with the ability to travel and to continue to refine my travel kit along the way. So now we are at Camino 2.0 level.
Here are just a few shots of our wonderful trip to Colorado for our summer wilderness trip with the young men of Explore Austin 2017. The trip was awesome, the boys were perfect, the weather was as good as we could ever have hoped for! We sorely missed Daniel and Ray. Daniel had to be … More Explore Austin Young Men of 2017
Four airports, five train stations, many taxis, many, many miles walked and one very glorious sailboat all make up this journey. Sometimes I wonder why I travel like this. It feels like I just have to get something out of my system. It is like a purge. It is a mission to live life full … More The Best Part of the Journey
Upon Ben’s recommendation, I stopped at a small town called Paestum. It is the site of the largest and best preserved Greek ruins on the Mediterranean. Let me just start out that the pictures just can’t do something like this justice. The stone temples were massive beyond all my expectations. There is so much stone … More Paestum
Well our stay in tropea was bitter sweet for me. Sweet because we had a great evening together. We had one of our best dinners on this trip, we also had a chance to watch the opening game of the World Cup. Bitter because it was my last night on the boat. It has been … More Tropea and Goodbye’s
Today we sailed (er motored) to the island of Stromboli. This island is the most active volcano in this little group of islands and has a history that goes back the ancient Greeks. It is know as the oldest lighthouse in the world since it glows red at night and was used by the ancients … More Stromboli
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