Archive for category: Travel

Bing stomps Google on directions to Grand Canyon

4 December, 2009 (19:36) | Travel | By: david

We’re planning a trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon next year. We’ll be renting a car in Las Vegas and seeing Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks on our way. I wanted to get a sense of drive times between Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon Lodge at the North Rim. I [...]

How to avoid the I-84 to I-90 nightmare

30 November, 2009 (10:22) | Travel | By: david

If you’ve driven from New York to Boston via I-91, I-84, and I-90 on high-traffic days, you know that the delays getting onto I-90 (the Mass Pike) can be deadly. Last night, I found a pretty good work-around. Get off I-84 at exit 73 and get onto SR-190. Turn right onto SR-171, which becomes SR-197 [...]

What I learned on my trip to Ireland

30 May, 2009 (20:00) | Travel | By: david

I just wrapped up a swing around the south of Ireland. We flew from Boston to Dublin and then back to Boston from Shannon. We stayed two nights in Dublin, two nights in Kinsale, one night in Camp (outside Tralee), and two nights in Ennis. Areas visited along the way included Kilkenny, Cashel, the Ring [...]

Note to Miami International Airport

16 December, 2008 (13:50) | Travel | By: david

Easy on the air conditioning. It’s friggin’ freezin’ in here!

Reflections on a week in St. Croix

21 August, 2007 (11:54) | Travel | By: david

Our summer vacation is memorialized thusly:

St. Croix is a lot larger than I thought it would be. Although perhaps it only seems bigger than it really is because of the total lack of anything we would call a highway.
If you’re planning to play golf on your vacation, try not to break your ribs the week [...]

First class ain’t what it used to be

28 May, 2007 (20:06) | Travel | By: david

I knew when I planned a Memorial Day weekend trip to New Orleans for a small business information technology conference that I would still be recovering from my knee surgery earlier in the month. So I splurged and cashed in a boatload of frequent flier miles to get an aisle seat in first class on [...]