[I started to write a blog post about my Iceland trip on the ride home, then promptly got busy on return, so didn't even post the beginning. Hopefully I can carve out some more time in October for blogging; there's plenty to share!]

International travel in the previous decade featured planned and opportunistic visits to a desktop computer to check ( Read more... )

Thousands of folks are in line at the Burning Man gate today. Instead, we arrived in Reykjavik this morning. Iceland decided to welcome us Burners with a day of intense wind but bearing rain instead of dust.

It was drizzly and gusty in the morning and early afternoon while we navigated our way to picking up a car, then lunch (OMG airplane recovery ( Read more... )

Yipes! In a week I'm going to be in Iceland and I really don't feel like I've gotten enough organized.

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My big motivation in scheduling a Caribbean vacation this spring was to jump out of my daily life sequence, which was impeding sleep and generating a lot of inflammation, and take it easy in a new environment. We set goals for various parts of the island, but didn't make commitments beyond flights and lodging so that "I'm tired and need to relax" ( Read more... )

A few days into our Jamaica trip and things are irie. We spent the first two nights at the Grand Port Royal Hotel. Scenes from the James Bond film Dr. No were filmed there in the early '60s and the property has an air of once-greatness as it now doesn't get enough business to keep up appearances. I think there were more staff at the hotel than ( Read more... )

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After a whole bunch of planning, Kelly and I worked out an itinerary for a vacation in Jamaica in April. Between a travel book, lots of Internet searching, and a spreadsheet we had the length of stay calculated for five areas. We booked lodging in each place and then bought tickets, returning on a Monday ( Read more... )

Last week I joined over 600 other Citizens Climate Lobby volunteers for the annual Congressional Education Day. CCL's main lobby day occurs in June, when we meet with over 500 offices of Representatives, Senators, and Delegates to discuss our proposal for a revenue-neutral carbon fee and dividend with border adjustments. The organization's ( Read more... )

A TSA checkpoint, an overnight flight[1] with guaranteed less than five hours sleep, a two-and-a-half hour layover, and a late morning (oh so late, for yesterday's morning) flight kinda erase any relaxation benefit from a Hawaiian vacation ( Read more... )

Some thoughts after a week in Maui, in no particular order ( Read more... )