Last week Alicia and I decided to take the plunge and introduce a furry little bundle of joy to our lives in the form of a new puppy. We had talked over the past few years about getting a dog, but we were living in an apartment and it didn’t seem feasible at the time [...]
I was in NYC earlier in the month as part of a Dwyer family visit with my relatives (who live in New Jersey, just outside of New York). Being the nerd that I am, I noticed that the time of our trip coincided with the annual Wired Magazine technology expo, Nextfest. Needless to say, I [...]
Here’s a fun little piece of Sean Dwyer history that I thought I would share with the world wide web. A few years back I used to work for a local computer company called McDonald Systems. It was a pretty small operation and eventually went out of business, but I worked with some good people [...]
Well as many of you know, Alicia and I have recently purchased a house and will be moving at the end of the month. It’s a pretty scary thing in some ways to know you’re on the hook for a lot of money and somewhat tied down to a specific location for a long period [...]
And now on to the final chapter of our trip, Crete. Crete is the biggest island in Greece, and one of the most popular tourist destinations. We stayed in Iraklio (Heraklion), which is the capital of Crete and the 5th largest city in all of Greece. This means it was a modern, bustling city rather [...]
The flight to Santorini from Athens was a short one. All I remember is closing my eyes, waking up and being offered a drink, and then being forced to chug back said drink and buckle up as the plane went into its final descent. We grabbed the first taxi driver we saw and got a [...]
As promised, here’s the first installment in my travel logs from our trip to Greece. I enjoy reading other people’s accounts of their trips abroad… it’s such a better way to get a feel for the experience than reading any map or guide book. Hopefully someone out there will get something out of this and [...]