Tag: stupid travel update
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Back at sea level
(Actually I think my elevation is something like 13 feet, but I don’t really know how to check.) I made it back from my short trip to Denver yesterday afternoon. We had a great time with no major hassles, other than Denver’s horribly mismanaged airport security line, and a couple of pouty four-pawed felines who…
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Vegas, Again
Okay, I have been back a week, but it has been a crazy week. First off, here are the pictures from Vegas: These are the first pictures with my new DSLR. I took roughly 500 shots over the trip, but I still have no idea what I’m doing, so this is the best 20% of…
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Cash for gold city
I mentioned before that my great Midwestern tour this holiday season was a two-parter. We spent a week in Wisconsin with Sarah’s family, which I’ve done every year for I think five years now. But this time we also took a few more days and drove out to Indiana to see my family. I haven’t…
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Frozen Irish
Hello from a veyr frigid Northern Indiana. I am sitting in a Bruno’s pizza just north of Notre Dame, waiting on a pizza and sort of passively glancing at the fourth quarter of the Colts-Jets game. It is cold as hell here, I think in the teens, and I’ve done more ice and snow driving…
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Back in the U S and A
I’m back in Oakland. I got back late late last night, after a very long travel day. We weren’t able to check in online at the hotel (nevermind that the hotel computer had one of those whacked-out non-US keyboards where the backslash character is Control-Alt-Shift-Start-Caps Lock or something) and we left early to get to…
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Hello from Mexico
I’m writing from a hotel room in Ixtapa, Mexico, where I’ve been hanging out for almost a week. We flew down last Saturday, and fly back on Sunday. This has been our first real vacation since our honeymoon in the Bahamas in 2007, except for long weekends, trips back to the Midwest for holidays, and…
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Hello from San Francisco
Hello from San Francisco. I’m on the 18th floor of the Sir Francis Drake hotel, and I’m not sure what neighborhood that puts me in, except maybe “middle neighborhood”. But from a quick walk around last night, it’s an interesting place. There are hills, cable cars, buses with overhead power wires, and stores with old-timey…
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Vegas has been fundamentally broken
Hello from Las Vegas! I am on the 8th floor of the Prince tower (I think) of Caesar’s Palace, eating a bowl of all-bran. We got a mini-fridge and went to Von’s (the NV/CA Safeway contingent) and stocked up. If they give you shit about the mini-fridge, tell them you need it for medication. Because…
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Back from Denver
I’m back. I have been since Friday night, after a minor scare in which my airline (Frontier) went bankrupt on the day I was supposed to fly out. Luckily they were still flying, because I probably would have hitchhiked home, or maybe bought a $8000 plane ticket, just to get out of there. I think…
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I think Utah was closed for business
Hello from Las Vegas. I am writing from the 19th floor of the Stratosphere, which has aged about 28 years since I was last here in 2002. At a much too early hour this morning, I loaded up my little Toyota with six giant bags of mostly laundry and two bags of laptops and headed…