I'm waiting for a train to take me home, back to the City after 3½ weeks in Pleasant Hill. I've been staying at pure_agnostic and starry_sigh's place while they've been out of the country, looking after hopeforyou.

I spent the latter part of my adolescence in far-flung suburbia like this ( Read more... )

Hey, look, an (almost) real-time entry! I wrote my last few entries offline ( Read more... )

I've been mostly hanging out in the lounge car on Amtrak trains, especially this one that has window that wrap halfway along the ceilings. This one's stalled at Salem, though. All the other trains I've been on have run reasonably on time, but this one's only gone about 100km and we've already had three several-minute delays.

This time, I was in ( Read more... )

Right now I'm doing the reverse of the trip into Seattle. One of the first things I saw on my way in last Monday was the world-famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Haven't heard of it? I'll bet you have-maybe this video will jog your memory. ( Photo of the new one... )

I travelled to British Columbia from Seattle by boat. It was a long and windy ride.


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I like Seattle, but it's extraordinarily difficult to get around ( Read more... )

The last two were precious and rare summer days here in San Francisco. I'm happy with how I've spent them.

Yesterday evening I enjoyed some burgers and beer at an outdoor table around the corner from my place with basmatiSitting outdoors is rarely so pleasant in this town, especially with ( Read more... )

I've managed to do pretty much everything I wanted to do in
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