Over the past few months, I’ve written about frustrations with travel planning online. The volume of ads makes pages unreadable, the AI slop is overwhelming, and, unfortunately, many great travel bloggers have stopped blogging since the revenue incentive has pretty much disappeared and they have had to get proper jobs. Another of these was related […]
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Most content doesn’t fail because it’s wrong; it fails because it’s vague. AI systems don’t read or process your content the way humans do. They compare it. If your writing isn’t specific enough to win that comparison, it never gets seen. I wasn’t thinking about AI retrieval systems when I landed in Porto. I was
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Today, December 28th, 2025, I finally achieved a bucket list dream: visiting Tiger’s Nest in Bhutan. This monastery, perched on a mountain at around 10,000 feet, has always captivated me. You’ve probably seen it in travel magazines or National Geographic, and it’s as breathtaking in person as it looks in photos. The journey to get
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This was our second trip to Athens. Our first was in 1995 when I was invited to defend a business school thesis on Using the Internet to Reach Overseas Markets. At that time, the Internet was viewed as a fad and not for business. My paper was compelling, so I was invited to present and
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I had wanted to go to Gibraltar since I saw the silhouette of the island in the 1070’s Prudential insurance commercial and a certificate on my uncle’s “Order of the Rock” for crossing through the strait in the Navy. Gibraltar, a unique British enclave at the southern tip of Spain, offers a blend of natural
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Our Andalusian adventure has in the planning cycle for over 20 years when we first visited Spain. It was one of the places that did not sync with a work trip and we kept putting it into our “when we retire bucket. We had a work event in Poland and committed to fitting it into
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I first learned about Armenia when I was 12 from my father’s co-worker, who would talk about the small village he lived in as a child, where his grandparents grew walnuts and pomegranates, and about the many restrictions imposed by the Soviets. I also saw many pictures of Mt Ararat (currently in Turkey), but the
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Georgia has been on my list of places to visit for over ten years. When I was working with Huawei, there was a Georgian restaurant next to the main campus, where we ate every trip. The food, and especially the wine, was terrific, and I became fascinated by the country after learning about it being
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I’ve been intrigued by Baku in Azerbaijan since my grad school finance professor called it the most interesting yet underwhelming place he’d visited. It is also recorded in Marco Polo’s journals as the “city of fire” due to oil extraction and his stops at various caravanserai (the old name for rest stops for merchants on
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We’ve wanted to visit Georgia for several years and finally planned this trip to the capitals of the Caucasus mountains. It’s exciting because we’ll see three new countries, but I am most interested in this region’s diverse culture and food—the sites at the crossroads of many cultures. We visited Baku, Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, Georgia; and Yerevan, Armenia. The Caucasus region
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