The Longest Run

While it's fresh on my mind I wanted to share with you some of my favorite Cape Cod places and activities. Since our friend Phyllis lives in Chatham most of the activities are centered around the southeast portion of Cape Cod, but it's easy enough to get to other parts of the Cape. In no particular order..... Running While a portion of the Cape Cod Rail Trail runs through Chatham and is a great place to run, I've grown comfortable enough with the area to venture farther afield. Chatham's streets are very well marked so it's no problem at all to navigate. On my most recent trip I went for this 12.75 mile run: <a href="http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/ma/chatham/614801742282">Loooong Chatham Run</a><br/><a h...

IMG_0272 , originally uploaded by aweber9 . I'd never heard of Schmaps until I received an email a few weeks ago asking if I'd be willing to have this picture of Independence Hall included in the Schmap East Coast Travel Guide. Schmap is a publisher of digital travel guides where users can customize and share itineraries with one another. If you click through to the East Coast Parks and Gardens page and zoom in to the detail for Independence Hall , you'll see that my picture is one of a number that users have taken of the building. Schmap found the photo after I posted it on Flickr with the tags Independence Hall and Philadelphia.

In the spirit of hello from Bermuda and hello from Stockholm , I send greetings from Munich. It's extremely rare that I travel as much for work as I have in the last few weeks, and unheard of that I'd travel to three different countries over the course of three weeks; fortunately it looks like international travel is behind me for a while - I don't have any further trips scheduled at this point. Today was a long day. I had the chance to grab a quick shower after flying overnight last night, but we spent the day in a dark room watching power point presentations on technology and innovation at Siemens. The highlight of the day was dinner in the restaurant atop the tower in the Olympic Park in Munich, site of the (infamous) 1972 Olympics. While I was originally doubtful that the food would be good, it was actually delicious. It was fun to be back in the Olympic Park as it's a place I visited on my first and/or second trip to Europe. I made two trips to Europe while I was ...