Fairmont El San Juan Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico

As parents of a 1 and 3.5 year old heading out on a beach vacation just outside of mainland America, our main goals are to have fun, stay safe, and stay sane. It can be a lot of work to accomplish all three, especially when your kids are overly sick. Nevertheless, Rachel and I enlisted […]

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Market Street Grill, Salt Lake City (SLC) Airport, UT

Back in Park City hitting the slopes – and absolutely loving it. My annual trip, I had skipped last year due to the birth of my son, the first year missed in a decade. 2 years ago the snow was so terrible I was skiing on rocks, 3 years ago the snow was so magnificent […]

Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne vs Sydney was apparently a big debate for Australians. I liked to think of the cities as two separate yet equally alluring “in their own way” destinations that carry the pride of urban Australia on their backs. Apparently Australians are more biased and polarizing in their opinions than I. Nevertheless, I arrived in Melbourne […]

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QT Hotel, Sydney, Australia

3 years since my last time in Sydney. Amazingly enough, last time I was flying solo desperately trying to secure business from the Australian government, and this time the Australian government was paying for my entire trip as a member of their data committee… I felt such a sense of pride arriving into the country, […]

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Starbucks, Ginza Six, Tokyo, Japan

Japan had remained closed to foreigners since the beginning of the pandemic, and I felt extremely fortunate to be able to travel on a business visa while international tourists were still locked out of the country. My last visit to Japan was 3 years prior, as a tourist, visiting my wife, who was on a […]

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InterContinental Toronto Centre, Toronto, ON Canada

Porter Airlines? Toronto City airport on a propeller plane from Boston? For a moment there I thought I was getting scammed. What was this airline I had never heard of before, flying into an airport I didn’t know existed, for the same price as all others to YYZ? A few Google searches told me this […]

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