Aaron Parecki

#travel

I just realized how outrageous my schedule is the next few days:

Fri: ✈️ ZRH➡PDX
Sat: 🔐 Speaking at BSidesPDX
Sun: 💤
Mon: 🖋 Publish blog post
Tue am: 🔐 OAuth office hours
Tue pm: 🎥 Filming Donut.js
Wed: ✈️ back on the road

Why do I do this to myself

Zürich, Zürich, CHE • 56°F

Fri, Oct 25, 2019 1:30am +02:00 #travel
Sometimes all you have the energy for is hanging out in the hotel lobby bar with a laptop instead of exploring the town.
#citizenM #citizenMzurich #travel #digitalnomad

Zürich, Zürich • 52°F

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Thu, Oct 24, 2019 12:18am +02:00 #citizenm #citizenmzurich #travel #digitalnomad
Currently on the plane to Zurich and wow I forgot how much of an accent Swiss German is! 🇨🇭

Hounslow, England, GBR • 50°F

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Wed, Oct 23, 2019 11:39am +01:00 #travel
ooh 5 minutes til boarding and the seat next to me is still open and i might have this nice 2-up to myself! 🤞

San Francisco, California • 57°F

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Wed, Oct 16, 2019 6:47pm -07:00 #travel
Do I know anyone in Zurich? I'm gonna be there next week and I have a free evening! Drinks are on me! 🍻🏔

Portland, Oregon, USA • 60°F

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Mon, Oct 14, 2019 6:11pm -07:00 #travel
I had a couple hours in DC before my flight so I went to the International Spy Museum! It was a pretty fun collection of exhibits and random artifacts from the last couple hundred years of espionage history.

#InternationalSpyMuseum #DC #WashingtonDC #travel

Portland, Oregon

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Fri, Oct 11, 2019 10:31am -07:00 #internationalspymuseum #dc #washingtondc #travel
More signs you might be traveling too much:

You sit down in a chair and instinctively reach to find the seatbelt.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NLD • 63°F

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Tue, Oct 1, 2019 10:31am +02:00 #travel
The things people carry on their bikes in Amsterdam never cease to amaze me. In just 15 minutes at this cafe I've seen people carrying: a guitar, children, a rug, grocery bags, a suitcase, two large dogs, a bouquet, four cases of wine. I love how absolutely normal it is too.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NLD • 64°F

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Fri, Sep 27, 2019 2:22pm +02:00 #travel
Confirmed. German airport coffee is not as good as Australian airport coffee. 👎

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, DEU • 57°F

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Thu, Sep 26, 2019 7:38am +02:00 #travel
always a good idea to google "is it safer to crash a plane in water or over land" while mid flight

United Flight 944 ORD to FRA in Maria-Chapdelaine, Québec • 53°F

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Wed, Sep 25, 2019 5:23pm -04:00 #travel
Pilot: "Flight attendants please take your jump seats"

~* 2 minutes of turbulence *~

Flight attendant: "Please don't take anything off the carts. Leave the carts in the aisle."

United Flight 944 ORD to FRA in La Tuque, Québec • 60°F

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Wed, Sep 25, 2019 9:12pm +00:00 #travel
Still getting used to walking on the right after training myself to walk on the left all last week in Australia

Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F

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Wed, Sep 25, 2019 6:39am -07:00 #travel
FlightAware MiseryMap (flightaware.com)

Mon, Sep 23, 2019 12:52pm -07:00 #travel
I just discovered a disturbing real-world vulnerability by accident.

A couple hours after checking in to my hotel, I went back to the front desk and said "I need to add someone to my room because her flight gets in late this evening." The clerk asked my room number, and I told her and also said my name. A few seconds later, after asking me to spell the name to add, there's a new name on my room reservation. Nowhere in this process did she check my ID.

Did I accidentally socially engineer my way into adding an unrelated name onto a room reservation?

Melbourne, Victoria, AUS • 53°F

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Wed, Sep 18, 2019 9:00pm +10:00 #travel #hotel
I do appreciate that the Qantas in-flight video points out that "your flight has great coffee too"

Qantas Flight 623 BNE to MEL in Brisbane, Queensland • 75°F

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Wed, Sep 18, 2019 2:02pm +10:00 #travel
Still surprised that for domestic flights in Australia you can get thru airport security without an ID or boarding pass and can get on the plane with no ID.

Sydney, New South Wales, AUS

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Tue, Sep 17, 2019 5:34pm +10:00 #travel
Happy Monday from Sydney! It feels like Spring out here!

No time for jet lag, gotta run to meetings all day!

Sydney, New South Wales, AUS

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Mon, Sep 16, 2019 8:40am +10:00 #travel
Minor moment of panic at the ticket counter trying to get a boarding pass when they said I need a visa before I can check in to the flight to Australia.

Turns out the visa "application" process was just filling out a web form on my phone, and it was "approved" immediately. I was worried I was gonna have to wait a full business day or something but guess not!

Also kind of weird is the ticket agent just had to check a box that said I have the visa, and that person would be fined $5000 if they were wrong. Seems like not the most ideal way to enforce that but okay.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 75°F

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Sat, Sep 14, 2019 4:01pm -07:00 #travel
wow I managed to get by from 11pm last night to 10am this morning thinking I was on east coast time rather than central. Thankfully my phone is smarter than me.

Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA • 82°F

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Mon, Sep 9, 2019 10:19am -05:00 #travel
oh no it finally happened. I forgot to book a hotel for this trip and only realized when I landed at 11:30pm.

Denver, Colorado, USA

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Sun, Sep 8, 2019 11:27pm -05:00 #travel

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