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I was at Disney World with my brother, Scott, and his family. This is the way I will remember it: Alex and his daddy on the runaway train. This was his second trip – I took him the first time and he was so… Continue Reading “Home and Online”
The “group activity” for the conference this week was a trip into the city. The park and Navy Pier. I had to explain The Bean to the ladies from Montana and Idaho. “I think it has a real name, but I don’t know what… Continue Reading “Tourists”
The Chicago Tribune ran an article, originally from the L.A. Times about a study of the health of business travelers. It seems frequent flyers are less healthy. Shocking. Here are the stats: “Extensive travelers were 260% more likely than light travelers to rate their… Continue Reading “Wherein I Think "I Told You So"”
I forgot contact lens solution. But I found an old Holiday Inn room key that I was able to return when I checked in. Yesterday, the cupcake truck came to our office. Apparently, they have two trucks now. But I hear that they are posting… Continue Reading “DC Redux. Again.”
I only took a few more pictures when I visited Kilauea last month. Lots of steam, lots of ash. And now, we have actual lava. And I read somewhere that the ground literally opened up – maybe that is the crack the shows here… Continue Reading “Beginning to Look Like Mordor”
And today is travel recovery day. While I am on rants about travel and cities that can’t deal with weather even though it totally happens. Here is what I learned on this trip: San Francisco’s airport does not have de-icing equipment. My flight was… Continue Reading “I am Home”
Weekend Assignment # 357: The Art of Packing When you go on a trip, do you travel light, or try to make sure you have everything you might conceivably need? Specifically, what do you bring along by way of electronics? Extra Credit: What’s the… Continue Reading “Packing Light, Sort Of”
This was my tooling around doing nothing day, as Tammy and Holly are flying in as we speak. I was up before dawn and sat around reading a magazine and the Blackberry for a few hours before heading out to get. My. Papaya. I… Continue Reading “Winter Vacation: Day 2”
First of all, after I posted that I was bringing four back issues of Vanity Fair, I found three more under my travel computer case. So make it seven. On the full day of travel, I took out one of them and read an… Continue Reading “Winter Vacation: Day 1”
Somewhere, in the last day or so, I read that Chicago has gotten 50+ inches of snow in each of the last four winters. That breaks a record or something. I thought, “Huh. I don’t remember last year being that bad. The year before… Continue Reading “Heading Out”
The Next Dark Age 