My Travel Bucket List

I recently finished traveling around the world for more than 13 months. It was an incredible experience, and I saw a lot of places and met a lot of people. Alas, there are still locations that I would like to visit.

That being said, I feel like my desire to see “everywhere” has kind of diminished. After traveling so much, the experience got kind of repetitive after a while and not as exciting. There are still quite a few places I want to visit in Europe, a few places in Africa, some Asian locations, and some places in North America, among other spots. But I would say that most of those are “normal” destinations and not truly adventurous. Not truly bucket-list worthy. Continue reading

ESA Tour

One of my friends knows a guy who works with the European Space Agency here in Cologne, Germany. One thing led to another, and we were offered a tour of the facility.

Around 15 or so people were interested in coming, and it turned into quite the proper tour. We all got in cars (the facility isn’t very public-transportation accessible), and made our way there. Casey then led us through the facility, showing us the very things that astronauts train with and are assisted with.

Model of the International Space Station

The Space Shuttle

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