My flight on Aer Lingus from New York’s JFK airport to Dublin, Ireland went really well. We had an eight mile per hour tailwind and completed the Atlantic crossing in just five and a half hours. It went by really quickly. I barely noticed it at all. I had a nice Irish lady sitting beside …
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September 8, 2009: Leaving New York for Europe
Today is my big day, traveling from New York to Dublin to Amsterdam to Osnabruck in Germany where I will be spending the next week celebrating the German victory at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest on September 10th, 9 AD a whole two thousand years ago. I have been planning this trip for almost a …
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September 7, 2009: Last Day at Home
Today is my final day at home for over a week. It has been great having a few days off or basically off from work and then tomorrow I kick off my actual holiday! This is amazing. Finally a real break from work. We did a little last minute prep today for the trip but …
September 6, 2009: Sunday at Home
Today is Sunday, midday on my three day weekendish kind of thing. Today and tomorrow we are mixing our time between just relaxing and spending time together as a family and getting things ready for my trip on Tuesday. For the most part everything is ready. Dominica really has the packing all planned and there …
September 5, 2009: Testing the GPS on the Camera
It’s Saturday and that means that my long, real vacation has semi-formally begun. I don’t have any more “real” work before my trip to Europe. I do have to work on Tuesday which is, more or less, a regular work day – a work day in which I leave work slightly early to go straight …
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