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Travel

Best. Ambient. Travel. Video. EVER.

21 December 2009

I love ambient videos. I watch Sunrise International and other programs that just let you sit back and enjoy the beauty of the surroundings that have been filmed.
But now I have an ultimate experience to share.
The "new media" division of Norway's national broadcasting system, NRKBeta, has produced a video celebrating Bergensbanen's 100th birthday. The video shows every minute (7.5 [...]

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The KLM flight attendant that made my day

22 June 2009

Once of the important lessons that social media is teaching companies and organizations is about customer service.
It's not uncommon these days to find folks who are using blogs and Twitter and other forms of social media and social networking to report on poor customer service that they've received. And companies are learning that this is [...]

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Europe08: An ode to the Barcelona transportation system

13 July 2008

"Well I've never been to Spain, but I kind of like the music…"
There. I've said it. Gotten it out of my system. (For those who don't recognize the quote or cultural reference, it's the lyrics from a song covered by the band Three Dog Night in the 1970s.)
Today I arrived in Barcelona. The airport terminal, [...]

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Europe08: What one semester of high school French will get you in Paris

9 July 2008

When I was about 12 years old and starting 7th grade, I signed up to begin to study a foreign language — Beginning French. Or so I thought.
Due to a registration error, the school also signed me up for Beginning Latin class. So for my first semester, I was studying foreign language for the first [...]

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Europe: July 4-20

4 July 2008

Join me as I travel around Europe this month for a client project. I'll be traveling to Paris, London, Barcelona and Rome with some possible side trips thrown in. Plenty of observations to be made on this blog and in my YouTube videos about crossing cultures and bridging divides — and I'm looking forward to [...]

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Can you pack for that trip in one suitcase?

2 July 2008

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One of my ongoing tasks as I get ready to go to Europe to work on project for a client is to pack my suitcase.
On my first study abroad experience, I remember going into the REI store in Bloomington and picking out a Lowe backpack?for the trip. It was a backpack that became [...]

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NAFSA08: Unexpected – and pleasant – surprises on the journey

26 May 2008

I was packed and ready to go on time. The drive to the airport was under a glorious sunny Minnesota sky. Then it took me less than 15 minutes to get through check-in and security today. And, best of all, I discovered that the TGI Friday's on the C concourse at Minneapolis-Saint Paul airport has [...]

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Meet my NAFSA 2008 roommate: Lisa Park

24 May 2008

As I get ready to go to Washington, DC, I want to take a moment to introduce you to my roommate during the NAFSA 2008 conference,?Lisa Park of The Admission Advisory Group.
Lisa and I met in 1994. I was a study abroad advisor at the University of California, Irvine's Center for International Education and Lisa [...]

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Manitou Heights at NAFSA 2008

22 May 2008

From May 26-30, 2008, I'll be in Washington, DC attending the 2008 (60th annual) conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.?I'll be blogging about the conference here on Manitou Heights as well as sending out pithy and not-so-pithy Twitters.?You can follow any participants who will be Twittering at?http://www.hashtags.org/tag/NAFSA08.

If you'll be at the conference, please stop [...]

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Thanks, Boingo — but it could be better!

4 May 2008

On Sunday 04 May 2008, I was at Chicago's Midway Airport waiting to board a flight back to my home airport of Minneapolis and I had a ton of things I needed to do on the Internet while waiting for my flight. Boingo is the provider of wifi Internet service at Midway. Over the course [...]

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