Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area with 2.4 million inhabitants. Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the [...]

The city of Görlitz is one of those quintissential German cities filled with lots of history. It lies along the Neisse River, stradling the border with Poland. Just across the river from Görlitz lies the Polish city of Zgorzelec. The city has a very rich architectural heritage, with buildings in the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Historicist [...]

My submission for the 55th round of Travel Photo Roulette, hosted by: wanderlusters.

This morning my tax refund arrived and I put it right to good use with the purchase of my tickets to Southeast Asia. I bought only the portion from Minneapolis to Bangkok and have yet to purchase the final part from Bangkok on to Yangon, Myanmar, which will happen maybe next month..       [...]

My entry for the 54th edition of Travel Roulette hosted by Travel Transmissions.

After much debating and finally resiging to the fact that the previously planned trip to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro was going to be too expensive, I have begun to think about where exactly too go. In all of my research, Myanmar seems to be the "it" place right now, so I have made the decision that [...]

Are you a BootsnAll member? For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s a traveling community with members from all over the world. There’s lots on the site, but the forums are the part that I frequently visit. Today, I encountered an interesting traveling game in the forum. It looked simple, but ended up being [...]

Jaime over at breakaway backpacker recently won the Photo Roulette 51: Friendships and thus is the next host of the travel roulette series, which began back in 2010... My submission for the next round, Faces is as follows.