Thanksgiving Travelog #17
Washington, DC. Saturday, 26 Nov 2016. 3pm.

Today we met my sister, C., and her family at the National Air & Space Museum in downtown Washington, DC. See Air & Space website and Wikipedia's NASM pageI still remember the fascination that the Air & Space Museum held for me when I was a kid. The epic moon landing (1969) ( Read more... )

Sheffield Shuffle No. 19
Waiting at the train station, 8pm Friday.It's around 8pm at the train station in Sheffield, UK. It's lonely, it's cold, and I am totally not even supposed to be here right now. But back to that in a moment ( Read more... )

Hawk and I had grand plans for how to spend our first day of a rejuvenation trip in Phoenix. We were going to get up at 5am, leave the hotel room around 5:30, drive out to Camelback Mountain for a hike up Echo Canyon, finish hiking around 7:30, grab some breakfast on the way back to the hotel, and dip into the pool before the sun got too oppressive ( Read more... )

Why is it that ordering fast food always goes like this:

"Hi, welcome to SpecialBurger. May I take your order?"
"Hi. I'd like a SpecialBurger sandwich, a small PlainBurger, and a small soda. For here, please." (Note: I say this very clearly and without rushing or mumbling.)"Do you want the SpecialBurger combo or just the sandwich ( Read more... )