The weather on the morning of day five was much better than the previous day. The skies were clear and the weather was crisp, but not cold most of the time. We headed east to the Landbrotsholar hills, but we got lost at first because many roads share nearly the same name. When we finally […]
Iceland Day 4: Black on Black
After a waffle breakfast at our hotel we struck out for Skogafoss, one of the more famous waterfalls in the south. It was a big deal because our hotel warned us that we might not want to go anywhere at all because a “heavy storm” (30km/hr winds, sleet, hail and rain) was coming in. We […]
Iceland Day 3: World of Waterfalls
We visited Þingvellir and walked through the snowy chasm before paying $2 each to use the floor to ceiling windowed bathroom. On our way to Geysir we stopped at a random farm restaurant. The burger and the soup were excellent, but the best thing on the menu were the thick snowflakes really starting to come down […]
Iceland Day 2: Horsing Around on Thin Ice
After a few wrong turns on icy roads we made it to Eldhestar horse farm. We suited up in the giant riding outfits and got on the horses in the biting cold. Most of the ride was just through the field near the farm. It would normally have not been very exciting, but getting bounced […]
Iceland Day 1: Well, All White, then
I was not able to sleep on the flight to Iceland at all. We landed at 8am in Iceland (midnight in California). We ate a large lunch in Seattle but nothing on the flight so we were both hungry. After going through customs we saw the Iceland equivalent of a 7-11 by the airport exit […]
The Interview
Has everyone forgotten about Death of a President? Nobody threatened to blow up a theater when a British director made a movie about killing a sitting American President. We didn’t hack Great Britain – well, apparently the NSA is hacking everybody – but not over this movie! Also – didn’t North Korea put out some […]
Last day in NYC, too many people, too much rain
On Saturday we tried to use the remaining attractions in our NYC CityPass booklets, but both MoMa and the Natural History Museum had coat check lines stretching for miles. The Natural History Museum had an entry line stretching all the way back to the subway platform. So, after giving up on both of those we […]
When the Rain Comes
On Friday we tried to visit the Met, but only had about an hour as we had a reservation for the Landmark Cruise from Pier 83 at 5pm. We ended up accidentally eating lunch at the Met employee cafeteria, which was surprisingly delicious. On our way to Pier 83 we walked through Central Park and […]
Observing New York
Unlike our other vacations, we hadn’t really planned what we’d do in New York other than seeing some friends and a few shows that Sam had on her bucket list. Thursday was wide open until 5pm so we decided to go to the Empire State Building Observation Deck. I’d been up there way back in […]
Another conference and no Christmas Tree
On Wednesday I had another conference to attend, this time at the IBM building. The event started off okay, with a presentation on content marketing – but quickly devolved from there with panel after panel of uninteresting marketing discussion. The irony is that a week before the event they’d asked me to be on one […]