Coming back in from the cold
23 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
It's 2.5 months since I left my job. I didn't really search for this possibility, an amazing friend set it up. So we'll see how it goes. Feels strange to be traveling again.
Trystan brought me to theBaca lagi
Bad karma
23 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
Crap. A 2.5 hour delay already. My love for SFO (sarcasm) is renewed. Truly my favorite airport (more sarcasm). Off to find some overpriced snack 😁
Things to do when you're stuck in SFO
23 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Only 2 more hours to go
Flight UA 2262, Seat 21A
23 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌙 57 °F
Finally boarded. Expecting to land at 3am now.
Life is short. Stay awake for it!
24 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
One more off my coffee bucket list. Minnesota's Caribou Coffee. For some reason it exists only in Minnesota and across the Middle East, in countries like Turkey.
Lunch spot, before visiting the client
24 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
One of the many, many Minnesota lakes.
The world's biggest shopping mall
24 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
The Mall of America, it's definitely huge. Lots of air conditioned space to get my 10k steps tonight.
PengembaraI’ve always wanted to visit there, just to say I did! Della wants you to buy her something tasty.
PengembaraHonestly, me too. Well that and that it wasn't far from the hotel. Della has shown a remarkable lack of enthusiasm for foreign foods. I think wants to avoid Delly Belly.
Dinner at (Mark) Walburger
24 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Well, why not?
Red Skies at IKEA
24 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Remarkable sky
PengembaraIKEA. Oh, one day they might come back to Russia 🤷♀️ the sky is beautiful
My office view today
25 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Intense day of meetings, but it's lovely outside. It looks a lot like Ireland.
After work wander
25 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
Pulled over on the way back to the hotel to have a quick walk in a place called Baker Park Reserve. There's a lot of flooding from last weekend. I tried three different trails and each was impassableBaca lagi
Will I regret it?
25 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
I've ended up going to an "Authentic" Irish Pub near the hotel for dinner.
American Aldi
25 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
I wonder do they take dollars?
PengembaraAldi is a British supermarket, right? I think we had Aldi near our staying place in Birmingham
PengembaraI think it's German, but yes there are Aldi everywhere across Europe - Germany, France, Ireland, etc.
Minnehaha Falls
26 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
A quick visit to the Minnehaha Falls
Fear the cheese
26 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
Minnesota's most famous hamburger, the Jucy Lucy..
Live up to the hype? 80%
Tasty? 85%
Messiness? 5 Napkins
Burn my mouth? You betcha!
PengembaraI follow Joshua Weissman on YouTube and he was traveling through US to try every burger in US. I remember Jucy Lucy from his video but don't remember the score 🤷♀️
Crossed the river
28 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
I took a different route this morning and crossed the Mississippi into St. Paul.
PengembaraI think it's about 3,800 km. It runs north to south, so it's kind of a divider in the USA. So you get expressions like the best burger, this side of the Mississippi 😂
It's raining 😁
28 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌧 63 °F
It's turning out to be a beautiful day.
Even the coffee...
28 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
.... is Minnesota nice!
St. Croix River
28 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
I'm straddling both Minnesota and Wisconsin asking the St. Croix river. Beautiful, but there are so many Mosquitos.
Time for a Culvers
28 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Something else we're deprived of, in California.
PengembaraThe burger with bacon 😋😋😋 But I don't get why Americans prefer cold drinks after fat food, I wood take tea with burger 🤷♀️
PengembaraIt's not healthy. I just watched a video about Russian diet 😁 we have lowest blood sugar in the world. Well, the guy thinks because of buckwheat but I think it's because of tea 😂
PengembaraHa, ha, well there's a lot of tea drunk in Ireland too, I must check to see if there is a blood sugar problem.
PengembaraI don't think a burger is ever going to be a healthy meal with hot drinks or cold drinks, ha, ha
PengembaraYou're right, I actually was surprised by that video. But we do drink a lot of tea, I think even more than UK and Ireland. from the healthy fast food, doctors saying that shawarma is the best, pizza was of the table 🤷♀️
PengembaraYes, middle eastern and Mediterranean foods like schwarma are the recommended here too, alongside sushi of course, which is sometimes a fast-ish food 😂
PengembaraYou should try Russian sushi 😂with mayo 🤦🏻♀️ it's an absolute fast food here
Second chance
28 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
Checking out oddities and such in North Saint Paul
PengembaraRaining outside, with a tea or coffee to drink while you wander through the shelves, and sit down to read a bit of some books.
Homeward bound
29 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Back in the airport, and one last Caribou coffee. Mainly to get another fix of Minnesota nice before I board.
No direct flight available this morning. I'm connecting through Denver.
PengembaraSafe travels back home. I hope you'll find something interesting for yourself in Denver
United 1125, Seat 20F
29 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
Boarded. First stop Denver
My pilot's name is Ted Striker
29 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
Anybody who has watched Airplane the movie, will get the reference.
PengembaraI would have changed my first name at least. It's a shortened name anyway
Voodoo onto others
29 Jun 2024, Amerika Syarikat ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
... Before they Voodoo onto you.
Trying to grab some Voodoo for Trystan.
PengembaraThey have pink boxes for 6 now, so I filled one of those. 2 x Old Dirty Bastards, 2 x Voodoo Dolls and 2 x Homers
PengembaraTrystan such a great person! Happy birthday to your son and you too! Hope you'll find your passion in consulting, or maybe somewhere else.