Tag: Travel

During a six hour layover in Honolulu, my friend Brian and I went to the Honolulu Museum of Art. The museum is really cool and worth a visit for just about anyone passing through the city. They have the standard sort of stuff, but I was most impressed with their Asian collection. In particular, the…

When I’m booking a flight, I don’t search by shortest duration, I sort by longest. My favorite flights are those that include one or more really long layovers during the day in an interesting location. Earlier today I hiked up Diamondhead, ate a Hawaiian burger, waded into the ocean at Waikiki, and visited the Honolulu…

Whether you think I’m a minimalist or maximalist isn’t important to me. In some ways I am quite minimalist, but in others I’m the opposite. I have a lot of teaware, for example. Way more than I really need. But when it comes to packing, I don’t think there’s much debate. I pack very lightly.…

Welcome to the 2016 Gear Post! This is my most anticipated post of the year, which means that it’s the one I’m harrassed about the most. Due to popular request, I did individual photos for each item, which takes considerably longer to do. My curent backpack weight is around 10.5 pounds, and as you probably…

I would have forgotten about my promise to post this in November if it wasn’t for, well, everyone else very tactfully reminding me that I said I’d do it. The timing works, though. My bag is packed for a two month trip that will bring me to thirteen countries by plane, train, car, ship, and…

We were all excited about this most recent island trip. Brian, Elliot, and I would be flying together from Tokyo directly to Halifax, and would be joined there for a few days by Todd, and then by Ben for a couple days afterwards. It was to be the first island trip with no critical imminent…

A few times a year, a crazy flight deal appears. Sometimes they’re crazy sales, and other times they’re mistakes that the airline will be legally obligated to honor. Take, for example, the one that popped up right as I began to write this post: San Francisco or LA to Jakarta for $385. The unique characteristic…

Last night, over dinner, I was part of a conversation about virtual and augmented reality, two technologies that aren’t here yet, but are inevitable and will change a lot about our world. We marveled at the possibilities and how wonderful it might be to live in a world with these things. Today, in Budapest, we…

Our ship pulled up to Gallno. The landing was nothing more than a small dock and a dirt trail that led into the large island. It’s the sort of place where my sense of direction is totally adequate, just one trail with some things along it. Sharing the trail were a couple people from the…

With a little encouragement from friends smarter than me, I’ve decided to pour some time into CruiseSheet and try to make it into an awesome cruising resource and a real business. I think that cruises are the best value in travel, bar none, and are seriously underutilized by many people who could easily afford them,…