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    Back in the Yucatan!

    ByMark Tisdale January 11, 2011January 9, 2025

    Gosh, where to start?! I’ve been painfully lax in keeping the blog up-to-date this trip. Partially I guess due to the busted netbook. Thought about using a net cafe this afternoon but the couple I saw were packed so back to ye olde iPhone. The ride from Palenque to Merida was rough. You don’t really…

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    Oaxaca, San Cristobal, and Palenque

    ByMark Tisdale January 5, 2011January 9, 2025

    The days have sailed past since my last update, so it´s going to be a wee bit of a challenge to come up with the intervening bits of the trip. I wandered around Oaxaca a bit more with my camera and got some (I hope) good shots of the city colors in the late afternoon….

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    Mexico City, Puebla, and Oaxaca

    ByMark Tisdale January 1, 2011January 9, 2025

    This appears to be my trip for technology issues if ever there was one. When we left off, I was having issues with the camera, the biggest blob of dust ever. The camera´s dust cleaner was no match for it. The last morning in Mexico City arrived and we were to have a morning walk…

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    Mexico City Thus Far

    ByMark Tisdale December 29, 2010January 9, 2025

    Gosh, time has gotten away from me in making updates on my trip, i.e. none after being here for a couple of nights.  Amazing for me, but time  has been pretty solidly filled so far. I slept on and off on my flight into Mexico City on Monday.  An amazing feat for me, but I’d…

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    Mexico – Belize – And A Gift!

    ByMark Tisdale December 9, 2010January 9, 2025

    This may be old news for some but after a ton of to and fro, I finally selected a destination for my annual New Years wander!  And I think I’ve pretty much given up any secret on that one in the title of this post!  Yes, a partial re-tread as I’ve been to Mexico twice,…

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    Ultra Mega Ghetto Macbook Lapdesk

    ByMark Tisdale July 17, 2010January 9, 2025

    Ah, happy times.  In the past month, my MacBook Pro has been with the charming folks at Apple twice.  Granted in less time than I have owned my Mac, my Fujitsu laptop I had previously was dead.  So, no complaints.  Maybe I just got a dud, but I was in no rush after the death…

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    A Year Later

    ByMark Tisdale June 4, 2010January 9, 2025

    Hard to believe it’s been over a year since I put my house up for sale and left my employer of  a decade in the metro Atlanta area.  It’s actually more in the range of a year and a month, I’d literally lost count and thought it was this month.  How time flies! I expected…

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    Living In A Van Down By The River

    ByMark Tisdale March 20, 2010January 9, 2025

    Somehow I missed this SNL sketch.  To be honest, I haven’t watched Saturday Night Live in, well, I have no idea how long.  But my RV searches always seemed to turn up this skit, so I figured I had to share it. Full Video Skit Here So, those of you who are connected to me…

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    Dispatches From Dublin

    ByMark Tisdale February 23, 2010January 11, 2025

    Wow, it’s been nearly a month since my last update!  The main reason for this post is that I’ve completed my photos from Dublin, but I realize for anyone who doesn’t check Facebook, you may not know I ever got back!  It was a mostly uneventful return.  I did manage to leave my power adapter…

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    Paris It is A Wrap

    ByMark Tisdale January 28, 2010January 9, 2025

    Two days to catch up on before I go upstairs and try to jam everything into my bag. I really haven’t gotten more than a few postcards and magnets since the package I sent home from Ireland, but everytime I re-pack that bag it feels like it’s not going to zip shut this time. Probably…

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    Paris Beneath My Feet

    ByMark Tisdale January 25, 2010January 9, 2025

    Oh me, my feet are telling me it’s time to take a load off for a day or three, but somehow I’ll press on. There’s plenty of time to sit on those flights home Thursday. Here’s hoping, I don’t need the poop out wagon at the airport to go between gates. Had a not so…

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    High and Low in Paris

    ByMark Tisdale January 24, 2010January 9, 2025

    I was up somewhat late last night jotting out my own little love letter to the city of lights as regular readers saw… Having had a not so restful night (I never rest well before flights, worried I’ll miss them), I was pretty tuckered out. I know I said I slept late a few times…

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    Paris or Bust

    ByMark Tisdale January 23, 2010January 9, 2025

    As I expected, I was first to bed last night and there was a new room-mate in addition to the Italian. Never saw him or heard him so zero details. Morning came too fast. I woke 20 minutes before my alarm and lay there trying to get that last bit of sleep to no avail….

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    Dublin Dénouement

    ByMark Tisdale January 22, 2010January 9, 2025

    Ah, my time in Dublin is rapdily diminshing like the grains of sand between my fingers.  If all goes as planned, this time tomorrow I’ll be in France! Yesterday I awoke to a gray and misty wet day.  I immediately recognized it as a classic museum day!  I set off after breakfast for the national…

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    Irish Ghosts

    ByMark Tisdale January 20, 2010January 9, 2025

    Yesterday was bus day. There’s no other name for it. I knew it was worth it to go ahead and waste a night than adding another night in Galway and losing today getting here, but it didn’t make it nicer knowing that. I woke up and had a leisurely morning. I had walked enough of…

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    Connemara and Killary Fjord

    ByMark Tisdale January 19, 2010January 9, 2025

    I’ve spent the past two nights here in Connemara at the Sleepzone Connemara overlooking the Killary Fjord. Reputedly this is the only Fjord in Ireland. Lonely Planet suggests that it’s not technically a fjord as it wasn’t glaciated. I’m not sure who to believe, but it’s a very beautiful place. It’s actually a good deal…

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    Goodbye Galway

    ByMark Tisdale January 16, 2010January 9, 2025

    I think I’ve done fairly well with my couch potato plans. I haven’t exactly been laying on a couch, but I’m also having an equally hard time coming up with what exactly I have been doing. I have wandered some and seen more of the city, more residential and commercial areas, nothing special but part…

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    Galway Potato

    ByMark Tisdale January 14, 2010January 9, 2025

    So, we’re working our way through day two of my planned couch potatoing. Oh and yes, for those who didn’t see my post on Facebook, I am off the island at last! No disrespect for Inis Mor and the Aran Islands. I am sure they are a splendid place in the summer, spring, and fall…

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    Abandon All Hope

    ByMark Tisdale January 12, 2010January 9, 2025

    It’s not just the pizza island, it’s the island of no return! No ferries ran today because of a storm. The winds were “50km” per hour. You do the math my friends who live in miles as I do. I just know that it was hard to close the doors behind you here today for…

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    Vote Me Off This Island

    ByMark Tisdale January 12, 2010January 9, 2025

    Well, yesterday, the sun was shining again! I had breakfast and watched for the morning ferry to arrive and then bounced down to the road to join a tour. Managed to get in with three others with a good guide. We saw a couple of old churches, the coast, and the main attraction, Dun Aengus,…

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    Aran Island Couch Potato

    ByMark Tisdale January 10, 2010January 9, 2025

    Wow, to say today was unproductive would not be an exaggeration. And I’m not exactly bothered. You see yesterday I hit my own mental brick wall. I’ve enjoyed my trip, but with few exceptions, I’ve been out wandering every day for two weeks. I may not have been up early, but if there was sun…

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    Galway – Winter Wonderland

    ByMark Tisdale January 9, 2010January 9, 2025

    Where to begin, basically a two day catch-up here. I woke up Friday to a foggy and colder Galway. Considering I barely escaped Dublin, all I could think was my Saturday ferry to Inis Mór might be in danger, but what can you do?! I went to find the departure point for Saturday because there’s…

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    To Galway With Love

    ByMark Tisdale January 7, 2010January 9, 2025

    Maybe it’s too early to be confessing this, but I think I’m in love with Galway. I slept in a bit, but considering I was past midnight getting the last post done, cut me some slack. In my real life, I’m a night owl. Here, I’ve been anything but. So I rose and shown so…

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    Galway or Bust

    ByMark Tisdale January 6, 2010January 9, 2025

    Wow, long day! Actually long night, too! Last evening, I was simply struggling to stay awake as early as 6pm! To be fair, little doubt that my sinus infection plus sore throat were not helping matters. Still I couldn’t go to bed so early, so I emailed friends and generally commented on half of what…

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    Dublin, Is There A Doctor In The House?

    ByMark Tisdale January 5, 2010January 9, 2025

    Ah yes, I got back to the room at the shameful early hour of 9pm and the stealth snorer was asleep! I figured out later that he was still there by his one shirt and toiletries. Really, bags missing for days or ultra light traveler?! I quietly readied myself for bed. It was to be…

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    Dublin Dazed

    ByMark Tisdale January 4, 2010January 9, 2025

    I’ve been fighting a cold since getting back to Dublin. I blame one part winter cold to one part tour crud. That and a genuine need to do laundry was why I spent the day in yesterday. This morning I woke up feeling like I had turned a little corner, less stuffy and throat less…

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    Derry to Dublin

    ByMark Tisdale January 3, 2010January 9, 2025

    Wow, so much catch up to do that I’m sure the details will be woefully lacking in some parts! It was a fast if fun trek and I find myself taking a small breather today in Dublin while the laundry is going. From Derry, we made our way through ice and sleet to the city…

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    Dublin to Derry

    ByMark Tisdale December 29, 2009January 9, 2025

    Ah, finally a few minutes with an actual computer instead of just scratching off a few notes on my iPhone!   That and a power point (outlet) by my bed so that I can charge tonight is pure heaven! Wow, my standards for a fun time are declining! This is my third day in Ireland…

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    New Years 2010 Deciphered

    ByMark Tisdale December 19, 2009January 9, 2025

    Since I’ve been in my own little world lately, I figured I should get in at least one blog update before rushing off for my 6th New Years abroad.  In this order, the past five were Edinburgh’s Hogmanay street party, Rome’s Piazza della Repubblica, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay (rained out, drying off in a tiny hotel room…

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    Rhythms Of New York

    ByMark Tisdale September 24, 2009January 9, 2025

    It’s always funny to meet people in other parts of the world who have been to cities in your own country that you’ve never seen before.  I’ve often felt I was saving those for later years when I might be less able or willing to endure 8 to 12 hour flights, or maybe I just…

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    Savannah and the Coast

    ByMark Tisdale September 13, 2009January 9, 2025

    This probably won’t be an especially long post since on phone. The hotel has two pcs in the lobby and I’ve yet to see them free even on a fairly empty Sunday night. This is my third night here and I consider it little more than a taste but I understand why people have so…

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    Egyptian Dreams

    ByMark Tisdale September 11, 2009January 9, 2025

    I had hinted on my facebook fan page that I was going to self publish a book of my photos from Egypt.  And after a bit of a learning curve, it’s ready to see the light of day! It’s an opportunity for those of you who don’t have enough wall space to devote to all…

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    Extended Stays

    ByMark Tisdale May 4, 2009January 9, 2025

    So, last Friday was my final day at Equifax.  I’ll still be back and forth to Atlanta for a bit until I move my stuff in storage and won’t entirely cut ties until I manage to sell my house, but soon, I’ll get to move onto another chapter of my life.  A little travel and…

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    Life is a State of Mind

    ByMark Tisdale April 23, 2009January 9, 2025

    I guess you could say a fair bit has been going on in my life this year.  After a decade working with the same company, I’ve decided to cut ties and try something new.  When I figure out what that is, I’ll let you know!  It’s a long involved story for one on one time…

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    A Few Days In Central America

    ByMark Tisdale January 27, 2009January 9, 2025

    Things have been busy the last few weeks, but I’ve also found some time here and there (like on a plane back from Chicago one late night) to edit some of my photos.  And thus I have the chance to share some of the warmth and beauty of Central America with you all. My first…

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    Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and back again

    ByMark Tisdale January 12, 2009January 9, 2025

    On our second day in La Fortuna, the only activity I had planned for the day was an activity our entire group had signed up for.  I had been mentally prepping for this one the whole trip.  The planned activity was zip lining, AKA Canopy Tour and several other monikers. In brief, these are tours…

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Hi, I'm Mark Tisdale, a self professed creative geek, a life-long fan of sci-fi, fantasy and technology. Somehow, I stumbled onto a love for travel and shortly after found my calling in life as a visual artist.

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