Tag: travel
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Maui
I spent last week in Maui, as a combination tenth-anniversary trip and Thanksgiving. Sorted through the photos, vaguely, but I’ve been too busy to get any words down on it. Looking back, I guess I haven’t written about my previous visits there, but we went in 2013 and 2015. Pictures of the previous visits are…
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Mendocino, Fort Bragg, Glass Beach, etc.
I’ve been back almost a week, but here’s a quick trip report on the tail end of what I wrote about last time. So I stayed just south of Little River. They have a town hall and post office that are in the same building as a two-pump gas station. So the whole town is…
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KONCAST Episode 5: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
In this episode, I talk to author John Sheppard about planes, trains, and automobiles – no, not the movie, but actual forms of travel. We discuss: Taking Amtrak across the country; Denver’s weed money revitalization; the painted deserts of Nevada; the subways of NYC, DC, and LA; flying space-available on the C-5 galaxy; skydiving in…
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Little River
I am in a cabin in Little River, CA. This has nothing to do with the Little River Band, who is apparently from Australia. (I had to go look this up.) Not sure why exactly I’m here. I wanted to bug out of town for a few days, and didn’t want to end up back…
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Nashville and Memphis
I went to Nashville and Memphis last weekend, just a quick four-day getaway thing with another couple from New York. Pictures: Nashville and Memphis Various thoughts, because I am too lazy to write a whole entry: Everything has music in Nashville. Like, if you go to get your oil changed, the 15-minute jiffy lube place is…
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bones and memories
I visited Indiana recently – actually, it wasn’t that recent, but I meant to write about it at the time, and now two months have passed. It was an interesting quick trip, for a few good and bad reasons, so I wanted to play catch-up and get a few words down on it. I booked…
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Various Vegas thoughts
I planned on blogging more from KonCon in Las Vegas last week, but I didn’t, because I am lazy. I probably should write a synopsis of the trip, but the TL;DR is that it was way too fucking hot – usually at or above 110 each day, and even hours after the sun set, it…
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London
I’m now in Nuremberg, after a rough travel day yesterday. Here’s a general brain dump in bulleted list format on my short stay in London: I thought London would be a lot like New York, except darker. I actually liked London more than Manhattan for a few reasons: It isn’t as dense or vertically packed,…
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Plane wreckage in the 49th state
There are currently two things that every single show on cable must be based on at this moment: either making cupcakes, or Alaska. I went to AK in 2006, and found it interesting, although now it’s a much harder sell to get people up there, given that a certain someone has branded the state as…
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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…