
My final lesson learned last summer while backpacking around Europe was follow the signs. The more open your plans are the more beautiful moments the universe can send you. My plans all started with a wedding invite. Austeja invited me to her wedding in Lithuania, which lead to me to England to crash on Ale’s…

Summer 2022, everyone decided that Covid was not a severe threat anymore. After 2 years of not booking the flight, it seemed like everyone hit purchase together. Thus kicked off the summer of revenge travel in Europe. From May through July I jumped country to country amongst the throngs of people. 9 countries in 2…

I had to be back in the US for a site visit to Dallas the following week so my trip to Panama was cut short. I had one day I could book a tour for and the choices were the Panama Canal or the nearby islands of San Blas. When given the chance I always…

Traveling during a pandemic always has risks. We had a small covid scare in Aruba April 2022 where one woman who tested earlier, had a test come back positive. Amazingly, another woman is a surgeon and brought 20 rapid tests with her on the trip. I guess she thought this was likely. Drunk in our…