Over the course of a mere seven days – July 12 to July 19 – we went from Breckenridge, CO, to Bangkok ,TH, and then on to Cairns, QLD. We covered three continents, two continental divides, and four distinct time…
One Night In Bangkok . . .
Technically, we were in Bangkok for three nights, but that’s just being pedantic. The infamous song about the chess tournament in Bangkok many years ago is always playing in the back of my brain when I think about trips to…
Family Dynamics, 2 Miles High
The first “leg” of my sabbatical was planned far in advance to be an annual immediate family gathering somewhere – a relatively new thing, if you’ll pardon the pun. Since my sister, brother, and I all have kids who are…
Thoughts on Sabbaticals
In the land of few vacation days yet globalized corporate empires, an equalizer to vacation time across geo-political regions is the sabbatical. Intel only offers it to employees of USA and Canada, if I remember correctly, but in essence it…