This last Saturday, WSDOT opened up the viaduct for one last hurrah before shutting it down for the first part of demolition. Between the ho...

I like McDonald' s. I don't think that the food is great or that the service is top notch, but what I do like is that what we take t...

Not many of my posts involve Stockholm, and even fewer involve the restaurants here. The main reason is that eating out here is obscenely e...

The first reviews of the new $79 Kindle are starting to appear . The Kindle Touch hasn't been released yet, which is what I think most ...

It's been more than 3,500 miles by train, plane, and bus from St. Petersburg, across Russia and finally over to Ulaanbaatar. It...

Amazon just announced the latest generation of Kindle devices: The new Kindle , the  Kindle Touch  and the Kindle Fire ! As a Kindle geek, I...

After so many days in Russia, stepping off the bus in Ulaanbaatar was entering a whole different world. Siberia still had many of the tell t...

One minute worth of our blue marble rolling under the international space station. Simply amazing. I wish I could see this view som...

Our next stop after the wonderful Lake Baikal was Ulan-Ude, which was a transfer stop to Mongolia. We had decided that taking the bus from U...

After Tomsk, we headed off to Irkutsk by way of the world famous Rossiya (Train #2). To catch it from Tomsk, we had to take a smaller train ...

Deep in Siberia, there is a town which was bypassed by the transsiberian railroad and where the annual average temperature is just one degr...

Our time in Suzdal was short, but the next leg of our trip across Russia was the big one: 52 hours on a train from Vladimir to Tomsk. One st...

I have to admit that food in Russia did not really wow me, so trying to keep in the theme for Russia for the course of the transsiberian arc...

Our next stop after Moscow was a sleepy little town called Suzdal. Suzdal is located a few hours outside of Moscow and once was an important...