Upstate New York has some amazing scenery, and I was fortunate to be landing in the area near the peak foliage season. First stop on this road trip was to Ithaca, New York. I met my friend Bo at the airport in Newark, and from there we went to visit Caleb in Ithaca. He’s there…
On my trip to Europe I brought two cameras, my Pentax SLR and my Olympus mirrorless camera. In Prague I ended up using the SLR for most of my pictures but in Vienna I ended up using the mirrorless camera exclusively. I took the subway a lot in Vienna, and didn’t want to have to…
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted… This is more or less a weekly blog, in that I more or less try to write something every week. For those few people who actually check this blog regularly, or for those who are subscribed to the feed, it might have seemed like something was wrong,…
On the last day before flying back home, I spent half a day at the Naschmarkt, a big market in Vienna not unlike the famous Pike’s Place market in Seattle. On Saturdays apparently there’s also a flea market that gets setup right next to the Naschmarkt. The flea market was incredibly crowded. The variety of…
I have two days in Vienna before I fly back early in the morning on Sunday. To make the most of those days, I decided to purchase a Vienna card. It’s different from the Prague card in that it doesn’t get you into any attractions for free, it just gives you a small discount on…
I arrived in Vienna late in the afternoon. I had booked a couple of nights in an apartment I had found on AirBNB. The apartment didn’t look all that inviting from the front door… But the room itself was pretty nice, it was large and comfortable. I had picked the place mostly because it was…
One thing I’ve always wanted to do is backpack through Europe. I regret not doing it when I was younger, although I suppose it’s never too late to do that kind of stuff. So anyways, after I split up with Jack (he flew back to the states), I continued on my own by train. I…
For the last full day in Prague our plan was actually to spend it outside of Prague. I had wanted to go to a concentration camp called Terezin, which was about an hour bus ride outside of Prague. But when I woke up and looked outside the window and saw that it was snowing pretty…
After our whirlwind walking tour of Prague, we knew what most of the major attractions were in Prague. We decided to buy a Prague Card, which would get us into most of the attractions for free. We went to a few museums. One of the museum exhibits had this lithograph of Prague in the 1500’s.…
I had made it to the hotel that Jack was staying at without a problem. The place he’s staying at was quite nice, and it served a pretty good breakfast. Along with typical breakfast foods like bacon and eggs they had a wide variety of pastries. And they had panna cotta. I found that panna…
I am venturing outside of the country for the first time in a dozen years. It’s mostly stupidity on my part that has kept me from traveling outside of the United States for so long. Up until about six years ago I was a citizen of South Korea, with an expired passport. I didn’t bother…