Updated: May 13, 2026

London to Stockholm, Sweden – May 2, 2026

Last night's sleep is at the Hilton Garden Inn.  There is nothing ‘garden’ about this hotel which is literally attached to Terminal 2 at Heathrow.  The building is encircled by parking garages, …

Updated: May 3, 2026

Leipzig to London – April 13, 2026

Easter week is finished in Germany and now we move on.  Today there are conveyances hired to drag us to and fro: train to Berlin Main Station, train from there to Flughafen (airport), aircraft from Berlin to …

Updated: Apr 12, 2026

Seattle to Leipzig – April 1-2, 2026

This is the run-up to Easter Week, 2026 and that means we’re pointing our noses toward Leipzig, Germany.  We have been going there for 12 years give or take a Covid interruption or two.  Our friends there …

Updated: Jun 3, 2025

Oslo – April 28

We begin the day in Leipzig, Germany.  We aren’t going to sleep there tonight. We need to get to the Leipzig-Halle Airport by 9:15 or so.  A train goes directly to the airport.  Curiously, that isn’t the way to do it.  A quick …

Updated: May 28, 2025

Glasgow to Dublin – April 13

We’re waking up in the Hotel Indigo in Glasgow.  This is just a one-nighter meant to make the transit from here to Ireland seem less stressful.  Breakfast is in the hotel’s dining area.  It’s about the same kind …

Updated: Apr 13, 2025

Lopez Island to Glasgow

THIS is the 2025 version of Running Away From Home.  Welcome to it, whatever it is, inclusive of what it turns out to be. So far, scary. We, personally, have nothing to complain about except, of course, the rate of …