The other day I wrote about how the unglamorous reality of business travel is cookie-cutter office park hotels, chain restaurant food, and long days that preclude going out for nightlife. See Dullsville in Austin, TX and I'm busy. Well, the reality is that occasionally it's not like that. I had one such brief occasion on Thursday night when a few ( Read more... )

"Oh, you get to travel for business," I hear a lot. "You're so lucky ( Read more... )

Hawk got a flat tire driving to work on Monday. She hit a pothole hard, and one of the tires burst. Fortunately they're run-flat tires so she was able to finish her drive without stopping to change a spare tire in the rain on the side of the interstate. Monday night when she got home I spotted that a second tire had also burst ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving '22 Travelog #5
Woodbridge, VA - Mon, 21 Nov 2022, 12:30pmOn the first half of this Thanksgiving week trip I'm staying in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC for 5 nights. I'm in the town where I grew up. My youngest sister and her family moved back here, and my parents moved in with them. When I visit I always get a hotel room. I ( Read more... )

White Plains, NY - Saturday, 12 Jun 2021, 10pm.

Today has been "Meet the Parents" day for us, meeting the parents of one of the grooms in the wedding Hawk is participating in. She's one of the best men for one of the grooms. We visited their house in Scarsdale for lunch today. This evening was the rehearsal dinner at the hotel we out-of-towners ( Read more... )

Recently I've been asking myself, "What should I write about in my blog?" There are a few things on my to-do list that I've meaning to write about, or write more about, for a while... but then it hit me. Dungeons & Dragons. I've been playing D&D for a long time yet I've written next to nothing about it in my blog! Here are Five Things:

1) My first ( Read more... )

Last Sunday was the second day of our weekender in Los Angeles. Or more specifically, in and near Thousand Oaks, which is kind of an exurb on the western side of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. I remember coming out here for a job interview back before we moved to California; the owner of the company explained that one of the things he liked ( Read more... )

El Cajón, California - Sat, 19 Jan 2019, 10pm

We wrapped up our visit to Garnet Peak this afternoon, returning to our car at the trailhead by 3pm. We drove back to El Cajón, aka The Coffin, hungry for late lunch/early dinner. All I'd had to eat since breakfast was a protein bar. We did a bit of shopping for odds and ends first as we didn't want to ( Read more... )

Roseville, CA - Friday, 27 July 2018, 11:30pm

It's a summertime Friday night. That means there's basically a 50-50 chance we're en route between hither and yon, halfway between home and adventure. And tonight is one of those nights. We're in Roseville, halfway to Tahoe.

Glen Allen, VA - Sunday, 11 Mar 2018, 11:50pm

Fitting in a personal day when taking a business trip is tricky. Usually it involves tacking a day on at the end of the trip. That seems only fair; take personal time after finishing business, right? Well, experience has proven to me that a) business occasionally extends to fill time available, and b) ( Read more... )