Stockholm part 2

By luck and interesting corporate policies, we were “forced” to have a hotel in Gamla Stan, the oldest part of Stockholm. Wonderfully clean, incredibly well preserved, very very touristy. A few doors down from the hotel was Kungliga Slottet, the King’s Palace – precisely like Buckingham Palace, complete with a changing-of-the-guard ceremony. I didn’t figure …

Stockholm

Your first hint that things will get interesting: your boss asks “do you have a passport”? Being the honest soul that I am, I said yes. Next thing I knew I was off on a whirlwind trip to Sweden. When your plane takes off mid-morning Saturday, and you land at your destination late on Sunday….. …

ZooLights

We went to the Christmas “ZooLights” thing at the Phoenix Zoo. Compared to Boston, this one had many many more lights, but fewer animals. They also had several amazing Lego sculptures – there’s a Legoland in Phoenix, so a kind of an advertising tie-in. Each scuplture had 50,000 or so bricks and took well over …

Pics from the road

Interstate in Colorado…. 3 lanes, low traffic, and actually *paved*. Scenic too. We’re not in Kansas any more. Final statistics: 2392 miles at 58.4 MPH = 41 hours driving. 28.7 miles per gallon average (on the big car, not sure about the little tractor that kept tailing me). Gas is a lot cheaper in the …

52 MPG

Who says 400 horsepower V8 engines can’t get good gas mileage?  Take that, Prius owners.