travels, races, and other musings

Welcome! In my life I have taken many journeys and I have many more to come! On this blog you'll find a repository of all my trip reports from various vacations as well as race reports from a range of different running, triathlon and open water swim races, my cancer journey, my fitness journey, and other musings and thoughts as I navigate this journey of life! This post contains an index (and links to) all the travel and race reports on this blog. For other topics, you can search or click a tag from any entry to see all entries tagged with that topic. Enjoy and happy travels!

Travel Home and Final Thoughts It was an early morning. We got up and got ourselves ready and down the curb for our pickup for our taxi ride to the airport. Our driver was actually running about 5 minutes late but we had enough time built in. Apparently he decided to make up for it with probably one of the craziest taxi rides I’ve ever been on: lane lines were a mere suggestion, as were speed limit signs. At one point I looked at the speedometer and we were going over 130 kph (around 80 mph). Thankfully, we made it in one piece and in record time. The airport was packed even though it was only 5 AM.  However, we were able to get checked in, drop our bags, go through security and find our gate with no issues and in plenty of time. Our flight to Heathrow was on time and we had enough time in Heathrow to go through their whole leave-and-come-back-in-through-security song and dance. We bought around $35 worth of coffee and muffins from the Starbucks in our terminal (I’m not even kiddin...