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My US Travel Map

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I have wanted to create a visualization of some of my travels for a long time but always got stuck procrastinating the details: Which arbitrary geographical divisions to use? Countries? Cities? Do transfer airports count?

This random Reddit post¹ gave me the motivation to finally do something. Following the example of the Redditor who posted this, I used mapchart.net to color-code the counties² of the US according to whether I had been there.

Hiking in Vall de Boí

Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I travel to Germany to visit family approximately once every 18 months. This year, I mixed things up a little bit and asked my mother and my sister to meet me in Spain for a hiking vacation. We ended up spending five days in Vall de Boí, a dead end mountain valley in the Pyrenees. One valley to the west is the border between Catalonia and Aragon, 50 miles to the north is the border to France.

I took a shower on a train and I liked it

Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Conny and I recently took Amtrak’s California Zephyr train from Chicago back home to San Francisco. Knowing the troubled relationship the US has with railway travel, I was anxious about being on a train for 48 hours. But the small inconveniences of living on a train were far outweighed by the enjoyment of watching the countryside pass by outside the window.

Since regularly crossing Germany by train to get to an from boarding school, I enjoy trains as one of the few places where I experience boredom, albeit only in homeopathic doses. This time, I had the serendipitous idea to “tweet-storm” a series of 29 photos from the 2,438 miles long trip. Here are the tweets: