Mar 21Useful from the StartToday I’m excited to announce that we are publicly sharing news about my new company, Bionic Health. The mission of the company is to bring precision medicine to the masses. For those that have followed my entrepreneurial journey, Bionic may seem like a departure from the technology-centric companies I’ve built…Healthcare2 min readHealthcare2 min read
Jul 5, 2022I didn’t go to Europe for the cookiesWhen you are in the US, you see your fair share of cookie warnings. We have Europe’s GDPR and ePrivacy Directive (https://gdpr.eu/cookies/) to thank for that. But when you are in Europe, the cookie warnings are on EVERY website. And it’s annoying. Let’s say you are visiting a museum website…Europe3 min readEurope3 min read
Jun 24, 2022Europe Top 10: #10 - St. Andrews, ScotlandWe visited 52 cities in our three months in Europe. I‘m going to share some pictures and stories from my top 10 cities we visited. We took over 4,000 photos during our travels so we have plenty to share! Coming in at #10 is St. Andrews, Scotland, which is a…Scotland4 min readScotland4 min read
Jun 22, 2022Sun Behind TreesAs you travel, you see a variety of new cities, new landscapes, new sights. But there is a certain amount of repetition to the process: you travel to a place; you walk around; you wait in lines; you see something interesting; you take pictures; etc. While we were in Europe…Europe2 min readEurope2 min read
Jun 20, 2022Google: The #1 travel company?Google gets a lot of bad press these days and rightfully so (e.g. they’ve destroyed the search results page with ads), but I have to give them credit when credit is due. As far as apps that help travelers, no other company is doing more. And they don’t even charge…Europe3 min readEurope3 min read
Jun 17, 2022Mail your postcards earlyYou may be used to the mail being delivered relatively quickly in the US, but when it comes to mailing postcards from Europe, you need to change your expectations. With one week to go before heading home from the UK, we mailed some postcards from Bath. We were home before…England1 min readEngland1 min read
Jun 16, 2022Paris was definitely the worst…How can Paris be the worst at anything? It is so beautiful. It is so historic. It has everything! All of that is true, but it is the worst to drive around. I drove over 6,700 miles across Europe, so I feel I have some experience in the matter. Driving…Paris2 min readParis2 min read
Jun 15, 2022How we managed to not get COVID on a three-month trip around EuropeIf you browse through travel forums, you’ll see lots of stories (in some cases horror stories) about people catching COVID while traveling abroad. Since we were going on a lengthy trip around Europe with two kids, we wanted to do everything we could to avoid catching COVID. The analysis was…Europe2 min readEurope2 min read
Jun 14, 2022Don’t be homeless after taking the red-eye to EuropeVirtually all the flights from the US to Europe are red-eye (overnight). This is so there is enough time for the plane to make the return trip back to the US in the same day. Convenient for the airlines but decidedly inconvenient for passengers. That means you often arrive in…Madrid2 min readMadrid2 min read
Jun 13, 2022The Allen Family European Adventure Part I — Are we really doing this?We just spent the day walking around Cologne, Germany — a wonderful, 2,000-year-old city situated on the Rhine River. We started at the Cologne Cathedral which is one of the tallest cathedrals in the world (also one of our favorites in Europe). …Europe8 min readEurope8 min read
