Tag Archives: travel
Should you check your bag?
Athens, Greece — November 2022
Boston, Massachusetts — August 2022
Post-travel Covid safety measures
St. Louis, Missouri – November 2021
Another November, another Supercomputing show. Over the last 12 years, always in the week prior to Thankgiving, I’d worked at this show rotating between a small number of cities each year: Dallas, New Orleans, Seattle, Denver, and a few other US cities. Last year the show was entirely virtual due to Covid concerns, but this year — for… Read More »
Dallas, Texas – February 2020
International Travel
Lisbon – December 2019
New York City & Akhnaten – December 2019
Denver, Colorado – November 2019
I travel to a US city every November to set up and manage a booth for one or more of my clients at the Supercomputing trade show. This huge show, which I have been going to since 2008, is held in the week prior to the week of [US] Thanksgiving every year, moving between a small handful of… Read More »
The Hague – September 2019
San Diego & Disneyland – August 2019
San Francisco & Hamilton – August 2019
I lucked out recently. My brother and his wife had arranged to see Hamilton in San Francisco with a Bay-area friend. When that friend announced that he was not going to be able to join them, his loss was my gain, as my brother generously offered me the ticket along with a plane ticket and hotel stay for… Read More »
Can we reduce business travel?
I travel a lot for business. In 2008 it was mostly just one trip per year, in 2016 it was three, and in 2018 it was up to thirteen. While some of this travel is to visit family or to attend concerts, most is to attend large meetings that span much of a week. This seems like a… Read More »