Finland 2012: Bruce Springsteen & I Tour Helsinki (7/29-8/1)
Summer cottages are big in Finland. They’re often small, but they’re important. If your Finnish family doesn’t own a summer cottage, someone you know…
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Finland 2012: Three Weeks in Vaasa/Vasa (July 10-29, 2012)
Vaasa, Finland sits just above 63º N (for American reference, that’s two degrees north of Anchorage, Alaska – so it’s up there.). As a…
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Finland 2012: Arrival in Helsinki / Onward to Vaasa (July 10th, 2012)
After ten hours onboard my intercontinental flight from Chicago O’Hare (for a total of about 14 hours of air travel from St Louis to…
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Finland 2012: Going Straight to HEL (July 9th, 2012)
From January to April of 2012, I traveled throughout India, mostly because I felt I had been challenged to do so on my previous…
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