July 2024: Oslo, Bergen, Flam Oslo The kids had a blast at the playgrounds. We noticed that it was really setup for kids. I had fun going on morning adventures on the electric scooters. I learned how to do jumps off of curbs! I fell in love with the Volkswagen ID.Buzz, their new electric Volkswagen
I’m preparing for a motorcycle trip to Nepal and Tibet in September 2024, and I thought I knew everything I needed to know about power….but I was wrong. Apparently, Nepal uses type C (cool, no problem), but they also use type D and type M plugs (WTF are these?). They’re from old British standards when
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Background There are a lot of different types of relationships you can have in life. You can have casual connections, like the regulars you chat with at a coffee shop, or you can have the super close, yet irritating, relationships that only brothers and sisters can ever really have. There are best friends, wives, husband,
On March 17th, 2024, I crashed in Southeast Ohio, riding off-road and broke my leg. As I picked myself up off the ground, I looked down and saw my leg twisted and mangled, I had the dramatic realization that I was actually in trouble. It was more serious than any training I’d ever done. It
I’ve been lucky enough to have four major careers, and a bachelor’s degree that has nothing to do with any of them (LinkedIn), so I’ve been exposed to patterns that aren’t commonly seen by a single individual person. With each of my professional careers, there were different cultures, ways of thinking, complaints, etc, but one
It was the night of May 17th at 2AM, and I was really starting to get scared. My leg was swelling badly, and starting to go numb. They had warned me that this might happen, and that if it did, I’d have to return to the hospital to have them loosen the splint on my
I remember the first time I detected that all Republicans had daily and weekly talking points after watching Fox News. It seamed to have happened post-9/11, after 24 hour news became a major part of American’s lives. Republicans definitely innovated and discovered this move before Democrats. They had talking points on Iraq, on Healthcare, on
I used to a play a pencil and paper game called Shadow Run, where you and your friends pretend to be a band of adventure seeking bounty hunters working for major corporations in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the movie Johnny Mnemonic. In this crazy, post-apocalyptic world, it was quite easy to buy medical evacuation
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A few years ago, I discovered a type of music called Nortec, a fusion of Norteño (a style of folk/country music from Mexico) and Techno. One of my favorite recent songs, is Sueño Fronterizo by a duo called Bostich y Fusible. Most people would consider me fluent at Spanish, but I often miss a lot