Nov 9 2007
David Galloway
We were introduced to David soon after we bought our house in Mane. David quickly became a close friend. We met in Art Basil in Miami in 2008, traveled together to Berlin and Japan in 2011 and Uzbekistan in 2014.
Aug 9 2007
Tom and Tim
We met T&T when we were first looking for a house in France. They helped us find our house. They supervised multiple remodeling projects. They visited us in BA in 2013.
Jul 19 2007
Annual Something New
When I retired I decided to, at least once a year, try something new. Perhaps something that would change my life.
May 11 2007
Puerto Vallarta 2007
In 2007 we visited Puetro Vallarta with an eye toward potentially buying a house there. We decided against it..
May 11 2007
Europe 2007
The trip had three parts. First we started in Paris, then Milan, and finally we rented a house in Tuscany with Sandy and Keith and Ed and Nadine In the second part of the trip moved west from southern Croatia to eastern Provence. In the third parted of the trip we were house hunting seeing […]
Mar 15 2007
China 2007
After retiring, we spent a month in Hong Kong and then traveled around China. We went to Guilin, Yanshuo, Yuzi Art Park, Kumming, Dali, Lijiang, Changdu, Chonching, took a river cruise to Shanghai. 2007 Hong Kong from mid-February to mid-March. Apartment on the 26th floor of a tower above Pacific Place. Food highlights were the […]
Feb 14 2007
Hong Kong 2007
After retirement Judith and I rented a place in Hong Kong for a month at Pacific Place. We took a trip to Macao and then an extended trip to China. I first went to spend a week at a Buddhist monastery in Thailand where I damaged my knee.
Jan 2 2007
Retirement
Retirement dinner at the top of the BofA building Soon before retirement, Carolyn forwarded me this email: Thought you might like to see this excerpt from an email Jennifer just wrote me. Don’t tell her I sent you this: “Things at work are really strange now…every time Vera and I talk about your dad […]
Dec 29 2006
Speeches
I was a frequent invited speaker at insurance conferences. I was the keynote speaker for the National Association of Attorney Generals Insurance Conference. I was the most requested speaker at Casualty Actuarial Society Meetings. Below are a partial listing of my speeches: 2006 “Auto Rate Evasion” IFM 2006 “From Class to Individual Rating” CAS 2006 […]
Nov 28 2006
Buddhism
After taking up Vipsanna meditation, I became more and more interested in Buddhism. I read many books on the subject. By 2006 I was ready to declare myself a Buddhist. Come 2022 I became a lapsed Buddhist. I was increasingly aware how radically Western liberals had edited Buddhism–they added secular Protestant morality, worshiped antiracism, anti […]
Jan 19 2008
Ballooning the Alps 2008
In January of 2008 Judith and I attended the Château D’Oex Switzerland Hot Air Balloon Festival with the American Ballooning Team headed by Stan Hess Hot Air Ballooning in the Alps 2008
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By Daniel • Timeline, Travel