Here’s a distillation of the best and worst of our trip around the world. We lots of fun putting this together during the final weeks of our trip. Most useful item we brought with us: Mitch’s swiss army knife. We used it for everything from extracting a sea urchin spine from Mitch’s foot at the […]
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Exercise on the Road
Here is a blog that I wrote earlier in the trip and forgot to post. Perhaps I was was hoping my exercise routine would be more regular at some point. It was always sporadic at best. At any rate, here are some thoughts about exercise on the road. Those of you who know Mitch will […]
Departing Wisdom
Happy New Year! After eight wonderful days in the Bulgarian ski resort town of Borovets, we headed back to the capital, Sofia. Its name comes from a beautiful old church in the city, the Hagia Sophia, a name meaning, the holy wisdom. It is one of the best cities I have been to that I […]
Christmas in Bulgaria
December 18 – 25 Crossing the Border in Santa Hats The Bulgarian border crossing guards looked into our train compartment and immediately started laughing and speaking to us in Bulgarian. Emma, Bjorn and I wore the santa hats that I bought at the Euro store in Athens. The guards obviously thought this was quite amusing […]
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