“Extreme tourism” is a $300 billion/year business now, and is expected to reach $1 trillion per year. This seems more like entertainment than what I think of as travel, but it is what it is.
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Chairman Xi Jinping says people need to travel more
Travel enhances understanding and develops new ways of viewing problems and identifying solutions.
Continue readingAirports: Went through SeaTac yesterday, chaos and meltdown
SeaTac Airport, or the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington State, was in what is apparently its normal state of chaos and disarray each morning. We flew in to SeaTac late…
Continue readingSome observations from our trip
From my notes in no particular order, regarding our trip to the Netherlands. This was our first real international trip – something we should have done long ago. We spent…
Continue readingSurprise – we just did a trip to Europe
A big surprise – we just snuck in a two-week trip to the Netherlands – we finally traveled internationally.
This post describes the planning process, and some crazy stuff that happened before and after the trip.
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