Travel

jdettmann

Mar 29, 20173 min read

Jackhammers, Interrupted

I, sadly not a celestial being, had to remain here on the earth that quaked every day for eight or nine hours as the diggers ripped...

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jdettmann

Oct 10, 20163 min read

Pining For The Fjords

I’m doing that thing I always do when I come back from new and wonderful, and I try to transport the lifestyle. When H and I went to...

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jdettmann

Sep 22, 20164 min read

Leave No Bag Behind

My suitcase, in disgrace It’s my fourth day in Finland and I know three words. They’re same three words I knew before I got here. Sauna,...

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jdettmann

Sep 15, 20164 min read

Terrible Syncing Feeling

This useless slack-jawed snake will not do its job. I swear to Odin, the first thing I am going to do when I get to Scandinavia is go...

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jdettmann

Aug 25, 20165 min read

Area of Particular Interest

That aside, we are really very extremely excited. We are going to Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The trip has come about because Jess is a...

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jdettmann

Mar 1, 20163 min read

Tropical with No Chance of Orang-utans

How I cope with this is to put aside what I should be doing (perhaps preparing my keynote speech for the International Conference on...

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jdettmann

Jul 31, 20154 min read

Waikiki? Your Guess Is As Good As Mine.

Waikiki at dawn. I like this place best between 4 and 6 am. Aloha from Hawaii, where I am finishing up a three-week lecture tour of the...

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jdettmann

Feb 25, 20152 min read

To Fiji, Come Hell Or High Vomit

Two hours and all the towels in the house later, he was a limp pile of empty little boy on the sofa, and I was reading the fine print on...

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jdettmann

Feb 11, 20153 min read

Train Travel For The Out-Of-Practice

Train for illustrative purposes only. Not a Tangara. When my train pulled into the station this morning, I thought ‘Ooh, fancy: a...

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jdettmann

Apr 19, 20133 min read

The Games We Play: Angry Men Edition

I spent a bit of time on that flight in the galley, bobbing around while getting Garnet off to sleep, and so I was privy to the pursed...

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jdettmann

Nov 26, 20121 min read

Six Excellent Foreign Ideas

1. Gazpacho in cartons from the supermarket 2. Ruins: ruins are lovely. Why don’t we have more of them? 3. Orangutans: Australia should...

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jdettmann

Aug 10, 20123 min read

Off The Wagon

We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple...

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jdettmann

Apr 11, 20122 min read

Holidays Make Me Sick

Things aren’t going exactly according to plan on our holiday. No sooner had we arrived and unpacked our Tetris-style car that took us a...

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jdettmann

Jan 30, 20123 min read

Summer’s Blood Was In It

The reason for the subterfuge is that since blackberries are a terrible pest in these parts, and you are supposed to keep them away by...

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jdettmann

Jan 28, 20123 min read

Highly Commended

The Show is a two-day affair, Friday and Saturday, and a celebration of all things agricultural. It is also, in its own way and perhaps...

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jdettmann

Dec 29, 20113 min read

A Deep Breath Out

Hello there. Did you survive Christmas? Are you still speaking to any of your family? Did anyone lose an eye when the top button of your...

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jdettmann

Dec 10, 20113 min read

I’ll Have What Everyone Else Is Having

Freezing fog, that’s the forecast for Denver this morning. I didn’t even know that was a thing. Shows how much I know about weather....

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jdettmann

Dec 2, 20112 min read

What A Lot Of Carry-on

The two suitcases are packed — beautifully, if I do say so myself — using the rolling technique. I am a fairly crap clothes folder, so it...

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jdettmann

Nov 28, 20113 min read

Travel Gobstoppers

My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...

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jdettmann

Nov 2, 20112 min read

Coat Tales

My grandparents in 1931. There is a slight chance that the love of a good coat can be inherited. We are going to America in a month. This...

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