I’m winding up my week at home with the family, so I couldn’t resist wrapping it all up in a Five Senses Friday list… Seeing: * Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, speak at Benaroya Hall. It was only by complete chance that I heard about his lecture on the radio and was able …
Category: Travel
Five Senses Friday no. 42
Seeing: * Black Swan. Friends I talked to psyched me up for how scary it was. So, of course, the actual film was much less scary than it was built up to be in my head. Dang it. Hearing: * 80’s music at a themed birthday party last weekend. It was the first time I’ve been …
In Between
I’m writing this from the working-at-home trenches in Hamburg. We’re in between semesters in Bremen, so I organized a trip home to Seattle for next week, and while I was at it, scheduled in some time with mein Schatz that doesn’t require weekend commuting. While I’m much more productive in my actual office at the university, …
Visiting Dresden
After finally gathering enough points on the Deutsche Bahn, I earned myself a free round-trip train ride anywhere within Germany. Naturally, I decided to explore somewhere brand new and Dresden was at the top of my list. After booking everything, we discovered that our trip coincided with the 66th anniversary of the controversial Allied air …