Roman Geocaching
I was anxious to get going so I quickly selected three geocaches that were closest to the hotel — Forum’s Revival, Coliseum, and Circus Maximus — downloaded the latitudes and longitudes into the Magellan eXplorist GPS and hit the street. It would have been much better if I had done some better planning, reviewed the […]
Roman Rendezvous – Introduction
Short stories are usually better than long stories but this past week contained so much to share that it can not be told in one short story. The highlight was when five-hundred of us entered the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel in a rare way — the buildings had been closed to the public and […]
Roman Rendezvous: Arrival
The American Airlines flight to Rome was long but smooth. Arrival at the Westin Excelsior was exactly thirteen hours from home. After a short nap was a planned phone conversation with Peter Kammerer, Foreign Editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Peter wanted to discuss the future of blogging, which is a […]
Western Geocaching
There wasn’t time during the two and a half hour drive from Denver to Laramie, Wyoming to look for some of the many geocaches and benchmarks, but we did take an hour to find two interesting geocaches in Laramie. The first cache is associated with "Welcome to Laramie" and is located at 41.3 degrees north […]
PC Forum 2006
PC Forum has normally been held in Phoenix but this year (15th for me) moved to Carlsbad, California (near San Diego). The travel to conferences is not always a joy but they do tend to be in nice places — too bad I am not a golfer. PC Forum is always interesting because it focuses […]
