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Spring is in the air!
“Saturday, in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July” The words of the song by Chicago echoed in my head as I headed out for a Saturday walk in the English Garden in Munich, Germany. Except it wasn’t July…it was April. A bit windy, cool and cloudy…but another day I got to…
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The easiest path may be the hardest!
I’ve been in South Korea on business, and on Saturday went for a hike up Bugaksan Mountain in Bukhansan National Park. An excellent maintained trail, I was enjoying my hike. I was warned there was a part of the trail with a set of fairly steep stairs to ascend. I wasn’t disappointed! As the picture…
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How will you be remembered?
One of the software companies I worked for, Cherwell Software, had an office in Seattle. The office faced the water and a slice of land called Centennial Park. Every morning I would go for a walk along that strip. To get there from my hotel there is a bridge that goes over the road. At…
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Getting up again…and again…
I owe my love of history to my Grandma Buers. Not sure how she did it, but she instilled in me the desire to learn history. That love/desire was further cemented in my formative years of living in Austria.A couple of years ago in Boston, Massachusetts I decided to follow the Freedom Trail , a unique collection of…