Category: Travel

  • Spring is in the air!

    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…

  • The easiest path may be the hardest!

    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…

  • How will you be remembered?

    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…

  • Getting up again…and again…

    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…