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“C” is for Cookie

| 07-Nov-2014 | “C” is for Cookie is a coffeeshop around the corner from our apartment. Pleep is being his own monkey …

There’s an app for that …

|06-Nov-2014| Iceland has an app?   Apps have been a constant topic of discussion – wild, crazy ideas that get more outrageous as …

Festival Day 1 – finally!

|05-Nov-2014| Started the morning with cappuccino and pastry at Sandholt. They’ve expanded to the space next door to the original shop and …

And so it begins: Airwaves 2014

|04-NOV-2014|  Today we say goodbye to Oslo and board our flight for Reykjavik, meet up with our compadres and take on Iceland …

Where are all the people?

|03-NOV-2014|First up today: Akershus Fortress. Again, we had the place to ourselves.  Yesterday was dead everywhere but most things are closed on Sunday …

You tiger now!

|02-NOV-2014|  Woke up this morning to brighter skies and no immediate indication of rain. We headed out immediately after breakfast this morning …

Welcome to Oslo!

|01-NOV-2014|  Note to travelers:  Scandic hotels have EPIC breakfast buffets included in the room rate.  And by epic I mean just about anything one could …

Travel Day to Oslo

|31-OCT-2014|  Jeff and I are doing a little Airwaves pre-func in Oslo this year.  We arrived mid-day today and will head back to …

Park beer, anyone?

| 10-May-2014 |  Woke up this morning with absolutely no plan for the day … and it was glorious.  We popped down to …

Shopping & Eating, Tokyo Style

| 08-May-2014 |  After “fighting” with the blog upload until midnight last night (don’t try to do this half asleep!), I was …

Day 1: Tokyo

| 07-May-2014 |  Travelling west is a completely different “adjustment” than travelling east. Went to bed about 10pm last night and slept …

Welcome to Tokyo!

| 06-May-2014 | We left Seattle at 1:15pm on Monday, bound for Tokyo/Narita aboard an ANA B787-8 aircraft. Let’s just say the …