Europe Asia Mexico Around 2003, CNP and PEG traveled to Mexico City where PEG met with the local IBM Hosting folks (with Mike Dorosh) and stayed at the Hotel Presidente Inter-Continental on Paseo de la Reforma for a few days. In Mexico City we went to Fonda El Refugio, Mercado Insurgentes, Artesanos de Mexico, FONART,…
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Spain
Balearic Islands Ibiza, Mallorca, and Menorca. Barcelona Virgin Voyages offers adults-only foodie cruises out of Barcelona. BasÃlica de la Sagrada Familia. Trip Advisor on second time visitors. Blu Bar plant-based restaurant. Toledo Madrid Valencia Rioja Seville (Xmas) Global
Germany
Berlin House of One Half day walking tour.
France
Paris Pantheon – Josephine Baker. Musee d’Orsay. Eiffel Tower. Trip Advisor on beating the summer crowds. Seine river tour.
Get Fit
Kaiser ClassPass. Kaiser Active&Fit Direct. Kaiser ChooseHealthy and ChooseHealthy.
House Repairs
Should I renovate? Fit windows with heat-shrink film or weatherstripping. Improve insulation. Foundation Leaks Basements with a concrete slab foundation and a high water table will often leak along the cove joints of the horizontal slab (which is poured first) and the vertical foundation walls (due to hydrostatic pressure). Reasons for the seepage. U of…
Ottoman Empire
Includes modern-day Turkey, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Crete, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Ethiopia, Romania, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Crimea, Qatar, and Serbia. Salt Jordan Also called Al-Salt or Saltus, in west-central Jordan. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2021. Backpack Adventures CS Monitor Tripadvisor Constantinople Aka Istanbul.
Venice Italy
Tours Uniworld Milan to Istanbul, including 7-day Po River cruise (start and end in Venice) and 6-day private train Venice to Istanbul. Venice Carnival Venice Carnival in 2022 runs February 12 through March 1. The last weekend of Carnival, Fat Thursday to Shrove Tuesday, is the busiest and best time to attend. Carnivaland. Tripadvisor. Artisanal…
Yosemite
Three days in John Muir’s footsteps in Yosemite. Yosemite through three lenses at the Society of California Pioneers, 2023 February – June. Horsetail Fall firefall in February at sunset in the right conditions. Get entrance reservations in advance. Visit Modesto Almond Trail on way to or from Yosemite. (1.5 hours from Alameda to Modesto; 2.5…
Books to Read
Bios Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dot, the World’s First Female Sports Superstar by Sasha Abramsky. The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame, and Mystery by Robert Weintraub Dutton.