I was in NYC earlier in the month as part of a Dwyer family visit with my relatives (who live in New Jersey, just outside of New York). Being the nerd that I am, I noticed that the time of our trip coincided with the annual Wired Magazine technology expo, Nextfest. Needless to say, I [...]
And now on to the final chapter of our trip, Crete. Crete is the biggest island in Greece, and one of the most popular tourist destinations. We stayed in Iraklio (Heraklion), which is the capital of Crete and the 5th largest city in all of Greece. This means it was a modern, bustling city rather [...]
What do you do when the cable TV network you work for decides to completely change its programming, and pursue a new direction that just ain’t your bag? Might as well take a nice long vacation — how about, say, 13 months? — and just travel aimlessly around this vast globe we call Earth.
Sarah Lane [...]
The flight to Santorini from Athens was a short one. All I remember is closing my eyes, waking up and being offered a drink, and then being forced to chug back said drink and buckle up as the plane went into its final descent. We grabbed the first taxi driver we saw and got a [...]
As promised, here’s the first installment in my travel logs from our trip to Greece. I enjoy reading other people’s accounts of their trips abroad… it’s such a better way to get a feel for the experience than reading any map or guide book. Hopefully someone out there will get something out of this and [...]
Well here we are, home again… and we’re simultaneously thrilled and disappointed to be back from Greece after only a week. There are those immediate comforts of sleeping in your own bed and having a shower with actual water pressure, but sometimes you wish you’d never have to come back to the real world and [...]