After sleeping through lots of activity, we finally woke up around 9:30am. We ate some breakfast Andi left for us, got dressed, and headed over to the slackline festival. The event location was perfect: a large park filled with grass, and just enough trees to set up various slacklines on. And there were about 40 [...]

Gather ’round while I tell you about while I tell you how we went from Sedan, France, to Landshut, Germany. For the authentic experience, give yourself little leg room and don’t go to the bathroom for 8 hours. But anyway…
We were in Sedan because we wanted to see some small French town, and we did. [...]

On Monday the 21st, we had booked a train to take us to Sedan. We decided to get to the station an hour before our train, and that was a good thing because it took half an hour to get through the line to pick up the actual tickets. After that everything went super [...]

In Paris we stayed at the Hotel le Montclair, which is really a hostel, but where we had organized a private room anyway. The room was small but nice. We had our own sink, but a bathroom down the hall. We also had a big window which let in lots of cool air, some traffic [...]

We worked out in the morning. I did 4 rounds of ~430m run and 35 squats. Took 10:18. The rest of the day we took it pretty easy. We finished up a few really last minute things, and walked around downtown Red Bank. There were lots of fancy stores there, but we mostly just looked [...]

On Monday we were up early to pack up and eat as much breakfast as we could before it was time to leave. Jane and Jaeda drove us to the metro station, where we grabbed the red line to South Station. There we bought Fung Wah tickets to NYC, and 30 minutes later we were [...]

In Boston we stayed with Jane, Tom, and Jaeda. Instead of seeing all the cool sights Boston has to offer, we mostly ran errands and relaxed a little. They were nice enough to let us use their cars, and that was very helpful. It was quite hot when we arrived, and I don’t think we [...]

There are 3 places on the Internet where you can follow along with our travels. The first is this blog, at http://www.casualhacker.net/blog/. The second is Danielle’s blog, at http://janolarambles.blogspot.com/. The final one is where all the pictures are uploaded, which is at http://www.casualhacker.net/cgi-bin/picindex.py/album/rtw. If you don’t know about RSS and RSS readers, and are a [...]

For about a year, Danielle and I have been following the CrossFit exercise program. We’re definitely not up to doing full workouts, but the program is scalable to just about any fitness level. I could go into what CrossFit is, but I recommend you just read the description on their website. Personally I can say [...]

The morning of the 7th we rented a car to go visit Martha in south Jersey. I also rented a GPS toy to go with it, and had a good time playing with it. It was also very helpful getting in and out of Philadelphia, which can be a little daunting otherwise. When we got [...]