Category Travel
Vacation!
When was the last time I took a vacation? Let’s see… in December I was asked not to take any vacation due to year-end client demands. In November, I worked straight through Thanksgiving and canceled most of an earlier weekend trip to New York with Amanda — both to satisfy client demands. In September I […]
Donner Pass strikes again
From the time I arrived in Reno two days ago, the air has been thick with the smoke of California forest fires. Yosemite burns; Reno chokes. Even people who haven’t just had knee-replacement surgery have been staying indoors, out of the haze. But this afternoon the wind shifted and cleared out all the smoke, leaving a […]
Layover rendez-vous
Okay, so this was awesome: My flight from Salt Lake City to Reno went through Denver, where I had a two-hour layover. Not enough time to leave the airport to visit Amanda, but plenty of time for her to meet me for a late lunch on the other side of the security line. The […]
Brunch with the ladies (and the Great Waffle Taste-Off of 2013)
There’s nothing quite like last-minute travel changes to make for fun adventures. Take yesterday, for example. The original plan was to fly out to Salt Lake City, where I would spend a few days helping to care for Lady (who just had total knee-replacement surgery) and, during the down time, catching up with some mission and […]
This is why they invented dark chocolate
I’m not gonna lie: today was rough. I’m trying to take all of next week off, you see, to visit family and reground myself; pretend like I have roots or something. And with today being the last work day before I left, I needed to get everything in a place where I could be gone. […]
In which Jean Valjean doesn’t sing, but Rory does.
I’m in New York right now, sitting in my hotel suite on the 20th floor above Times Square. Tomorrow I’ll be interviewing kids from Columbia Law School who want to come to work at the firm. The interviews start early, so I came up in advance. And, as I always try to do, I came sufficiently in […]
Home again
Well, I’m back. Tucked safely away in my little apartment in Arlington, VA, enjoying powerful air conditioning and Mexican food. It feels about as far from Cambodia as possibe. Except for the humidity. That is exactly the same. Maybe even worse. Way to go, Founding Fathers, way to build the nation’s capitol in a semi-tropical […]
Temples of Angkor
Like Machu Picchu, the Ayah Sofia, and Tikal, the temples of Angkor more than live up to their reputation. It’s one of those places where you get there and look around and have a hard time believing it’s real. The temple complex, which is the largest in the world (way bigger than Tikal), […]
Siem Reap – Silk farm of Les Chantiers Ecoles and Artisans d’Angkor
On the afternoon of our first day in Siem Reap Vanessa and I went to visit Les Chantiers Ecoles, an establishment that teaches traditional Khmer artisanship to local youth. The goal is to help them develop skills that will help them support themselves in the region, thereby reducing both poverty and the flight of young […]
Siem Reap
This isn’t really a post. I mean, it’s a post because it shows up in the blog, but I’m not really going to do proper justice to anything that I write about. I’ll mention some things that I don’t have photos for (yet), and other things that I have tons of photos for but which merit […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 