• A Day in the Life: Not what I expected

    Last weekend I attended one of these get-away offerings where for $40 and attendance at a 90 minute presentation you get an overnight stay at a resort and a gift. The gift we selected was free…

  • More on my Genographic travels

    More on my Genographic travels

    As I noted before, I fall into the “Haplogroup I” category. The test results I received from the National Geographic Society Genographic Project took my group to the Balkins but left me there. Other material cite…

  • May 24-25: Lubeck and area

    May 24-25: Lubeck and area

    We stayed in Lubeck one night. I think by this time in our trip, a visit to another beautiful little historic German town was wearing a little thin. So while we had planned to stay in…

  • Signs (Trip to Germany)

    Signs (Trip to Germany)

    To set the context, we were crusing down the autobaun at 140. A modest rate by German standards. Some think there are no speed limits on the autobaun. That’s not completely true. There are sections which…

  • The Genographic Project

    The Genographic Project

    The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we…