Next week I will take my first trip ever to Canada. I will visit Vancouver and Whistler during this trip. I decided it wasn’t cold enough in Seattle and that I needed to go further north.
After reading the Culture Shock! books for Chile and Cuba, I thought I’d read the one for Vancouver. My first trip to Canada is in a week. How shocking is the Vancouver culture? Judging solely by the book Culture Shock! Vancouver: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! at Your [...]
A few weeks ago I read the Culture Shock book on Chile. Before I read the book, I really wanted to visit Chile. After reading the book, I still wanted to see that country, just not as much as before. How did I respond to the Culture Shock book on Cuba?
Culture Shock! Cuba: A Survival [...]
I’ve noticed that people that travel tend to fall into two camps.
1-People that go to the same places they know and like multiple times.
2-People that always seek out a new place to visit.
I’m clearly in the second group. As much as I liked Maui or Buenos Aires, I have many more places to visit before [...]
Over a month ago I stumbled upon the most interesting travel book I’ve ever seen. This book isn’t about places to snorkel in Hawaii or New England bed and breakfast locations. This was a book on traveling to the most dangerous locations in the world.
Robert Young Pelton’s The World’s Most Dangerous Places: 5th Edition was [...]
Turns out the planners of my high school reunion came to the same conclusion I did in my High School Reunion Dilemma post. In that post I stated:
My 20 year high school reunion is scheduled on the same day as the Ohio State - Michigan game. You could not have a picked a worse [...]
Last year before I went to South America I did minimal research. Basically I just checked to see what the weather would be like, got some vaccinations and read the travel bulletins provided by the State Department. I wasn’t prepared enough.
Culture Shock! Chile: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides) by Susan [...]
The countries in red indicate places that I have traveled to. There still is a slight chance I’ll get to add Canada before the end of the year.
create your own visited countries map
And here is my USA travel map. Notice my aversion to states in the Central Time Zone. I also need to be [...]
Tomorrow I’m flying back to San Diego for a week. My new job wants to meet me. Well kinda.
The streak will end at 12 years. Looks like I won’t be attending Guavaween this year. Since 1995, I’ve spent the last Saturday in October in Ybor City, Florida celebrating Halloween.
Every year the cost for me to attend the event gets greater and greater. In the 1990s, I would drive in [...]
