Tromsø
A stop in Tromsø, well above the Arctic Circle.
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Thoughts, adventures, and discoveries from my journey through software engineering, travel, and life.
A stop in Tromsø, well above the Arctic Circle.
A day in Trondheim, the old capital on the Nidelva.
Standing at North Cape, the northernmost point of Europe.
A small town provides a glimpse at real life in Norway.
Wittgenstein's philosophies inspired a strange artwork.
Try this sweet caramelized cheese.
We drove the troll's path.
Norway maintains phone booths for safety.
Stopped for coffee near a film location.
Goods have to pass through the icy mountain passes.
The Saint Bernard who went to war for Norway.
First look at Norway from the water, slipping into the fjords.
A day in Rotterdam before leaving the Netherlands.
Artistic things I found around Amsterdam.
A few pics to get a feel for life in Netherlands.
A windmill led us to a brewery.
Boated the canals of Giethoorn.
Fifty stars from Advent of Code 2016, solved in Go.
A few random pics from Berlin.
An update on the socialist fraternal kiss mural.
The industrial eyesores at least came in pretty colors.
85+ miles of border within the city existed to keep ideas apart.
Get around town in a Trabi or a go kart.
Try the surströmming.
Something good came from East Germany.
Nazis killed approximately six million Jews in the Holocaust.
Stayed in Carlsbad for a spring weekend.
A brief stop in Yosemite.
Japan Radio Tower and Tokyo Skytree.
Where there's peace, there also must be chaos.
Peace.
A few random things from Japan.
Shrines.
Just For Fun.
Some Food In Japan.
Godzilla, the Pride of Japan.
Deer of Nara.
Japanese Record Stores.
Torii Gates.
Dogs, well foxes, at Inari Shrines.
Cherry Blossoms.
Art In Japan.
Starbucks as you have never seen them before.
Bears and Roos.
Stayed a few nights in Gold Coast, Queensland.
Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
We met up with a lady I have played online Scrabble with since 2010.
Checked out Three Sisters in Katoomba.
A Five-Story Rubik's Cube.
Adelaide, South Australia.
Monkey Business is serious business at Tomfoolery Wines.
Chateau Yaldara, Barossa Valley.
Bondi Beach, Sydney.
Indian Food in the Harris Park area of Sydney.
First stop in Australia: Sydney.
Mosi-Oa-Tunya
A jail cell on the mail route.
African wild dogs in the Okavango Delta.
Flew out to the delta.
Rain, money and wishes for grounded flights
Chobe National Park, Botswana
Bye, Hwange. Howdy, Zambia.
Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe
Everyone needs a few days in the South Africa Wine Country.
Ten days in Cape Town kick off a Southern African safari.
Fifty stars from Advent of Code 2015, solved in Go.
I trade postcards with people worldwide on the Postcrossing site.
I intend to solve all Advent of Code puzzles from 2015 to 2024 in Go and Rust.
Par Three: Two-putt To Victory
Two weeks without work, here is what I have done to stay busy.
I moved to Reno, Nevada, at the start of 2025. Time to see all that the state has to offer.
Last day at Upstart, team presented AI-generated fake album covers to me.