http://www.howtogetlost.com She Said, He Said Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:01:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Total distance travelled: 39,893 km / 24,788 mi Total distance travelled on land: 14,117 km / 8,772 mi Total distance travelled by air: 25,776 km / 16,016 mi Longest train ride by distance: Yekaterinburg to Krasnoyarsk - 2287 km / 1,421 mi Longest train ride by time: Yekaterinburg to Krasnoyarsk - 32:23 for 2287 km Slowest train ride: Ulan Ude ... http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/07/17/some-distances-and-times/ Ah, being a traveler in my old neck of the woods. I am in San Jose for work, which is the best possible way to spend a week back in the “real world”. I am writing this on the breezy patio at Gordon Biersch in San Jose, enjoying a czech-style ... http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/07/11/kazan-and-the-art-of-travel/ As we’ve moved along over this journey, I’ve taken pictures of things for posting to the blog. Some of them didn’t make it, for one reason or another. But hating to waste good pictures, I thought I’d throw them into a blog posting for all to experience. The engine of ... http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/30/things-seen-along-the-way/ Check this out, we’ve hit five of the top ten World’s Costliest Cities (from CNN.com). And four of the five are at the very top. http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/21/the-worlds-costliest-cities/ We got to Osaka around noon and found the hotel after taking several hops on public transportation. The Hyatt Regency Osaka is out in a less-than-exciting part of town with mostly wharves and docks (what’s the difference?) surrounding the hotel and World Trade Centre. So naturally, for dinner, we headed ... http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/21/osaka-retrospective/ It’s 4:00am and I’m awake. Since 12:35. I was afraid of this. It’s getting light in the east, and birds are chirping away. I just chatted on the phone with my dear friend Mandy who typically is awake until 6:30 or so every night, which is 7:30 my time. Handy! ... http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/21/darn/ Um… someone stop the world, please? I wanna get off. Wow. The world is a lot bigger than one would expect. Sure, Disney says it’s a “Small, Small World”, but trying going around it sometime. And I don’t mean by plane — go around it by surface. It takes a ... http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/20/home-a/ Looking out your office window and seeing this. Weird. Perfect kelly-green lawns, near-identical houses, SUVs. Had some of this feeling in San Francisco yesterday. So much English everywhere it sort of made my head hurt, being able to understand every single conversation going on around me. http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/20/the-definition-of-culture-shock/ Yesterday was a day of lasts. The last train (finally, even if it was just an airport tram; I was thwarted from taking the airport express train by a completely bulletproof argument put forth by Amy that the bus was faster). The last flight. The last airport. The last country. ... http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/20/the-last/ and just like that, we are home. more to come. much more. the right words for me are bitter and sweet. http://www.howtogetlost.com/2005/06/19/home/