2010 Santa Crawl This year’s Santa Crawl had everything you could ask: Chicken Santa, Bars that support charitable giving in exchange for drinking patrons,  and cold, but nice weather. It was also the first appearance of Yukon Cornelius and his elfin wife. (I must have stole her from Santa.) Yukon Cornelius: This fog’s as thick as [...]

The Story of Success A lot of people recommended this book: Tam, Ron, Ralph and Signa, and even Rob listened to the audio version, so I picked up the book before I left on my travels. And so now I’m in the club… the book club, I guess. This book had some really interesting ideas [...]

I love fall. The changing of the leaves; the cooler, rainy weather; and the coming of the holidays. Even though I’m writing this a few months late, I still can’t wait until next fall. As I finished my last half, I received a flier for this one. I looked at a few pictures and figured [...]

Travel Tips There are some things that I’ve noticed on our trip and learned. Here are some traveling tips that have been useful. Always carry tip money. It will be worth the pictures if they ask. Pack throwaways like shirts, underwear, and socks. Then your bag starts to get lighter throughout your trip as you leave these [...]

We flew to Amman, Jordan and then rode a bus to our small hotel village outside Petra. While our guide in Egypt couldn’t take away from our experience, our new guide was definitely improved it. Despite being bordered by Isreal, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, Jordan is a very well managed country. The people are [...]

The next day our group planned to fly done to Luxor. The next few days were going to consist of visiting many different sites while cruising up through the Nile. But as we got to Cairo airport things got a bit interesting. First, my dot matrix airplane ticket had the wrong first name (Andy, not [...]