To view the photo essay associated with this winter getaway, check out Winter hiking in Grindelwald, Switzerland: a photo gallery.Spending the month of January in Seattle is good medicine for me to restart some routines that got lost along the way in 2019. I had a club membership but traveled so often I forgot the combination to my gym lock. Food and drink … [Read more...] about Grindelwald, Switzerland: That time I tried to outsmart the Swiss
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Reflections of Winter Solstice in the Stone Age
Happy Winter Solstice from Newgrange, IrelandAt sunrise this morning in damp, dark velvety green Ireland an amazing ritual took place at a 5,000 year old neolith known as Newgrange. The ancient site is older than the Pyramids of Egypt and is located in one of the most sacred areas of the Emerald Isle, near where ancient kings were crowned. Every year on a series of … [Read more...] about Reflections of Winter Solstice in the Stone Age
Ukraine Week
All this talk about Kyiv (Kiev) these days reminds me of my own experience in Ukraine last July, 2019. I wasn’t sitting in a restaurant next to the American diplomats discussing official relations and military aid, but Kyiv is bustling with a feeling that you’re in the middle of a spy novel, waiting for Jason Bourne to come running out of a back alley to jump … [Read more...] about Ukraine Week
I want to come clean
Greetings from hot and steamy Bangkok. I'm in SE Asia for about ten days exploring with my great friends Elliott and Brian. We flew on a new, 16 hour nonstop flight Singapore Airlines started between Seattle and Singapore. Amazing that with a little bit of entertainment (or the entire second season of Killing Eve) and some liquid merriment along the way, the … [Read more...] about I want to come clean
The darker side of travel – Chernobyl
PART ONE OF A TWO PART SERIES ON MY TRAVELS TO THE CHERNOBYL REGION, JULY 2019. PART TWO, Kessiworld review of Chernobyl experience, IS NOW LIVE.Part I: Why the interest? A few weeks ago I found myself sleepless while traveling. After trying all the tricks to get back into REM, I finally pulled out my computer and started scanning through social media which dropped me into … [Read more...] about The darker side of travel – Chernobyl
