Tag: Travel

There’s a lot of political talk going around San Francisco these days, thanks to the recent election. There’s also a fair deal of rioting due to the Giants’ win, but that’s a different post entirely. I’ll preface this post by saying that I’m nearly completely uninterested in politics. It’s not something I think about, it’s…

First off, let me say this: BOOM! I got Tynan.com! YES!! Okay. So back when I was in high school, I had the idea that maybe this internet thing was going to work out, and I might want to own Tynan.com. I put www.networksolutions.com into trusty old Internet Explorer 3.0, searched for tynan.com, saw that…

I had a bit of a love affair with the Vibram Five Fingers. Todd got a pair right before we headed to Tokyo on Life Nomadic 2008, and I was jealous the whole time. Near the end of the trip Vibram graciously sent me a pair (intentionally delayed until after the running of the bulls,…

On the second day that I was visiting her in Toronto, Annie brought back a pile of books from the library. On the top was a tiny book with a cover so simple that it looked like it might be a children’s book about potty training. Then I read the subheader. “A little book that…

Today Annie told me that she has a new project. What is it? To learn where every single country is, what its capital is, its president, and ten current news items from each. That’s a handful. I’m not willing to keep up on the presidents or news items, but countries and capitals rarely change. That’s…

We’ve lived in three countries now, which has given me some perspective on America that I didn’t have before. Sure, I’d been to a bunch of countries before (only 15 total!), but things are different when you live there. You learn how the city and the people in it tick. When I left I expected…

I love my American Express card. I have the platinum one thanks to Todd, which has a lot of cool benefits like being able to go into airport lounges and such. However, they always seem to freeze my account when I travel. Last year, when I went to Tokyo, Todd and I ate at a…

I love Lenovo/IBM/Thinkpad to death. I’ll write more about their laptops soon, but for now I’m going to talk about this new power adapter. My old one broke in Panama, so as soon as I got to the US I ordered this one. Shipped overnight, it was expensive but worth every penny. It’s very thin,…

I’ve delayed writing this article for a while now because I’m not an authority on the subject. I don’t make millions of dollars, and neither does Todd (that I know of). However, something I realized is that it doesn’t TAKE millions of dollars to make enough money to leave. Panama could easily be lived in…

EDIT: Welcome, StumbleUpon users! Thanks for checking out my site. A while back someone e-mailed me and asked me how I had so many interesting experiences in my life. I meant to write him back, but couldn’t find the e-mail. First of all, what constitutes an interesting life? Do we care if OTHER people think…