So this starts the birthday trip with a great upgrade. [View Full Entry]

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I have to say that so far this is the best burger I have had at a restaurant in New York. I can assure you I have had better made at home for me. But this one is the greatest if you are out and about. [View Full Entry]

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We went skating and part two of the burger tour. This was one of my favorite meetings. It was the group of four of us from the other night along with the VA Pieter Jan V. But also joining us tonight was one Valerie from Singapore. She found VT this morning. Emailed me for things to do or a meeting and decided to come with us. All on her first day. [View Full Entry]

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This is a pic log. We had a group event and brought Pieter Jan V with us virtually. [View Full Entry]

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Here are some pics from Erik's signing party. [View Full Entry]

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Well my trip started with some weird days leading up to it. But they’ve been edited to protect the involved. Taking the train home Saturday I called Eric, my ride to the airport. He picked me up and we were off to my house so I could pack. Yup. You heard it right. I didn’t pack until Saturday morning. Oh well. What are you going to do? I was busy and happily Friday night was spent in a real bed instead of my futon. I truly hope this is the start of something new. Anyway. Back to the story. After packing [View Full Entry]

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Happy birthday Rachael and Gwilym. I came to London for the weekend to meet a friend and celebrate her friend’s birthday. It was only after I arrived that I learned it was also her boyfriend’s birthday also. Happy birthday to you both. Yes its true. I flew out of New York on Friday evening heading to London for just two nights. My work schedule does not permit me to often take long trips so I have become very good at fitting weekend trips together. Although Europe requires one day off where the west coast does not I am usually able to [View Full Entry]

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My first trip to Australia was quite the unexpected adventure. I had just met a friend who also typically traveled on United. Well a week later e-fares come out and has NYC-SYD for $700.74. I couldn’t believe it. I had never seen this fare for anything under $1000. So even though I had a trip planned for this time period to Southern California for the Yankees road trip I decided this was too good of an offer to let it go. And with that another week or so and I was off. I was so happy and excited to finally be [View Full Entry]

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Well it seems most of my travelling is done when it is very cold. This was also the case on my first trip to Vienna. Like all my trips there is usually a reason why I end up going to one place or the other. This trip was no different. It started because we needed a place to go and see while Mike was in Germany. No sooner had he arrived than we were out of work. This left us free to go and do whatever we wanted for the two weeks he was there. Dave from the Old Dublin used [View Full Entry]

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Well this all started out on a Friday evening in western Germany. We had just finished work around 5pm and were heading home to get our bags. It wasn’t long until we were off to the Old Dublin for some dinner and drinks. Figured it was the best way to stay up until the 1230am departure from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Santa Maria Novella here in Florence. The train station was surprising cold. It had been a mild fall and we had not seen any indication that snow would fall soon. After leaving the pub around 1130pm we arrived at the Bahnhof [View Full Entry]

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