Kauai Travelog, UnnumberedDespite my stated intent a few days ago not to fall behind on writing about our Hawaii trip, I have indeed fallen behind. Like I've done on virtually every other trip ( Read more... )

Starting even before we finished our recent trip to Puerto Rico and New Orleans I began thinking about it in retrospective, assessing what I'd learned about myself and thinking about how to make future trips even more fun. Here are Five Things:

1. It's good to be homeWe've been away for 10 nights/11 days and stayed in 3 cities. This isn't the ( Read more... )

Sunday, January 3, 2016. 9am.

I'm jotting down a few notes as we wait at MSY airport for our flight out of New Orleans.

Yesterday was a slow day for me. As I posted on the actual day of January 2 (as opposed to journals such as this which got stuck in my queue for a week-plus awaiting editing) I have been wrestling with sickness and an ( Read more... )

Thursday, December 31, 2015. 1pm.

As I mentioned in my previous blog, today was a workday for me. Half a workday, anyway. I grabbed a space downstairs in our rental unit and set up my computer and telephone headset. I attended a team meeting (web based), caught up on email, and made sure everything on my end was cleaned up for the end of the ( Read more... )

Thursday, December 31, 2015. 8am

Last night after we arrived at our rental unit in New Orleans (see previous blog) we headed over to meet our friends at Party Central, a converted old firehouse. Here's a picture of it I shot today, in the daylight.


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Wednesday, December 30, 2015. 8pm.

Merhawk and I arrived in New Orleans this evening. Our flight out of Puerto Rico was uneventful. Our connecting flight at Tampa ran about 30 minutes late. We had a bit of drama aboard when a seatmate poked Hawk in the privates and asserted that it was okay to do so (see Hawk's blog). When the woman started blustering I ( Read more... )