November 15th, 2009

The Challenge: A Year in 100 Photographs

I am faced with a difficult challenge: a year in 100 photographs.

Before I left Ms. Kirkey was kind enough to prepare for me a photo album with a collection of photos of friends and family. I kept this photo album on my coffee table the entire time I was in Germany. It was [...]

September 30th, 2009

Come On Everybody: Group Hug

Have you noticed that I haven’t written much lately? I promise that it’s not due to a lack of things to write about, nor is it due to a lack of time to write–I just don’t want to. I don’t want to write about the thing that I would have to write about: [...]

September 18th, 2009

Marathon Playlist – Suggestions Needed

Alright everyone: In less than 24 hours I am off to Ulm to try to run a marathon. In less than 40 hours my feet will hit the pavement. As I’ve written before, I expect it will take me 4-5 hours–that’s a lot of music.

I need song, album, artists suggestions to keep me [...]

September 14th, 2009

Berlin Wrap-Up

I was in Berlin. The proof: I know about the Ampelmann. Oh, and there are my photos from the trip.

Church was lively and fun, the Currywurst museum was great, and the rain saved itself until the end of my weekend. Well, actually, it rained about an hour before I had to set [...]

September 13th, 2009

A Ryan Collection of Thoughts

I don’t usually encounter a lot of young people when I am travelling. My hotels are full of older people, Starbucks is quiet and empty when I visit in the morning, and of course driving around doesn’t lend itself to encountering new people. But, I have realized that the bike tour is a [...]

September 11th, 2009

Ich bin ein Canadian

Almost every time I travel alone I think about how much better it would be to have someone with me.  Not necessarily for the visiting but for the actual travel portion.  When I have been blessed enough to have someone to travel with I never think about how much worse it would be without them.

I’m [...]

September 8th, 2009

London: Two Sweaters

A few people have asked me about my trip to London. Here are some details.

I stayed at one of the LSE residences. It brought back memories of various residences I’ve visited and stayed in. It also made me think that students living in residence are either really motivated to get through school [...]

August 27th, 2009

Photo Evidence

Here is the photo evidence that I went to the Vimy Memorial and then spent the night in Brussels. We were also in Luxembourg but didn’t take any photos there.

August 17th, 2009

Currywurst Museum

I found something else to do in Berlin: the Deutsches Currywurst Museum.

August 17th, 2009

Avoided cleaning my apartment another day

Oi, mates.

It was off to Stuttgart yesterday as planned. I got there in great time, as traffic was fine and the unrestricted areas of the autobahn did allow me to hit my car’s top speed of about 210 km/h. (Aside: I’m driving the new VW Golf with 2.0L TDI diesel engine, due to [...]