Category: Travel
Greece part 5: Friends and Radios
November 12th, 2011, 3 Comments
See also parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. This is the biggest highlight of our trip to Greece for me. I enjoy having the chance to meet people, visit for awhile, and make new friends — and that certainly happened in Greece. In one of the shops we happened to step into, I noticed a [...]
Greece part 4: Food and Shopping
November 3rd, 2011, 2 Comments
See also parts 1, 2, and 3. I am a person that enjoys food that’s different from what’s at home, and Rhodes didn’t disappoint. Terah and I used to live close to an excellent Greek restaurant in Indianapolis, so we were already familiar in some way with the food. But there isn’t any Greek restaurant [...]
Greece part 3: Water
October 18th, 2011, 1 Comment
See also parts 1 and 2. That’s a photo of Vlicha Beach, near our hotel. But before I talk about the Greek beaches, I need to explain something about living in Kansas. Kansas is in the middle of the United States. The nearest ocean is the Gulf of Mexico, which is 700 miles (1100km) away. [...]
Greece part 2: History (and sauntering up to guys with machine guns)
October 14th, 2011, 3 Comments
Terah and I went to the Greek island Rhodes recently. This is the second in a series about it. I am one to enjoy history. There is something deeply, well, connecting, about standing in an old place. There is a timeless quality to it – a feeling of being connected to so many people of [...]
Greece part 1: Wow
October 10th, 2011, 5 Comments
Terah and I are just back from Rhodes Island, Greece. “Wow” is the summary of that place. Some highlights include walking up to a 14th-century church and hearing beautiful chant through the windows, crossing a bridge across the moat to a grand gate into Rhodes built by the Knights of St. John, spotting an amateur [...]
Mexico Part 6: Conclusion
September 20th, 2011, 1 Comment
The sixth in a series; see also parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. It’s been about two weeks now since we got back home. Every few days, our boys still talk about Mexico. Jacob talks about what he will want to do “when we go back” and how he’d like to see Jonathan over [...]
Mexico Part 5: Food, Restaurants, and Dueling Karaoke Guys
September 15th, 2011, 4 Comments
The fifth in a series; see also parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. One piece of advice we got in Mexico went like this: the nicer a place looks, the worse the food and prices will be. Roadside taco stands will be great, and nice-looking restaurants not so much. That seemed to be accurate. We [...]
Mexico Part 4: Street Scenes and Architecture
September 13th, 2011, 5 Comments
The fourth in a series; see also parts 1, 2, and 3. This post is going to be more a photolog than a narrative, and I apologize in advance for it being a bit disjointed. I’ve already touched on these themes a bit in the other post, but now it’s time to focus on them. [...]
Mexico Part 3: Shopping
September 12th, 2011, 1 Comment
The third in my serious about my family’s recent visit to Mexico — see also part 1 and part 2. Shopping in Mexico was probably the thing I was least prepared for. I probably had the biggest wins of the trip shopping, and also the biggest fails (though they weren’t all that significant). It seems [...]
Mexico Part 2: Lodging & Family
September 11th, 2011, 11 Comments
As I wrote in part 1, my family and I were in Mexico recently. Today I’ll write about the places we stayed. We spent most of the time in a room we rented in a private home in Guadalajara. My friend Jonathan had found it for us, and it was not too far from his [...]
