The Professor Errant

Traveling on the nerdy side

“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can…”

—Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Journaling and My Sticker Obsession

This past year I took up journaling our travels. How is that different from this blog? Well, it’s much more in the moment, allowing me to write thoughts and experiences down long before I put them on here (I know, I take forever with my posts). I consider it “pre-blogging.” It’s been a lot of…

Trip Report: Paris – Part 1

For Spring Break this year (2025, I’m way behind), we took a long anticipated trip to Paris! Of course, Rob and I had long wanted to see Disneyland Paris, Disney fans/adults that we are. Plus, who doesn’t want to go to Paris? (Stupid people, that’s who!) Booking I got our Amex Gold in order to…

Wrapping up 2025

Well, I didn’t get to write as much this year as I hoped. My mom’s health has been on a downward spiral. So my spoons have been few and far between. We did get to travel a nice (small) amount, though, so there’s that. We started the year with a trip to Kauai, our first…