I had just one night in Paris.  I got in early in the morning from an all night flight from Abidjan.  I went downtown and slept most of the day.  When I got up, I didn't really feel like going out but I did anyway.  I had dinner at a little Japanese place that had Teriyaki cheese (seriously).  Then I wandered around town, visiting Champs Elysees ( Read more... )

This trip hasn't been as long as some of the ones I've been on lately. It has kept up the trend of new destinations, though. I had commercialled through Paris before but never stayed there. A couple days ago I stayed, but only by the airport long enough to sleep. Now, after I land, I'll have a whole day there downtown ( Read more... )

Due to a totally unexpected string of circumstances, I wound up going to Bette Midler's show in Las Vegas this past week and reconnecting (in person) with a musician friend of mine I who I haven't seen since high school. It all started with a travel agent convention and Facebook ( Read more... )

Though I won't get to post this until I return home, I'm writing this on day 21 of my 22-day trip this month. I figured it might be better to just write all the 'drama' in one long post at the end of the trip. This, of course, is that post ( Read more... )

After a headline like that, I would expect to read, "there isn't any." In fact, I was subconsciously so convinced that there wouldn't be jazz in Bishkek that it never even occurred to me to go looking for it. That's okay, though, the jazz found me this time ( Read more... )

So obviously I've been busy. Here's a summary of the latest ( Read more... )

I came out on this trip on Monday the 6th. It's roughly half over now. Normally, I could say it's had more ups and downs than the stock market, but the Dow set its biggest single day point gain ever while I've been on this trip, and it followed several record setting losses. I guess I don't have so much drama compared to that ( Read more... )

A lot happens before I ever jump in an airplane and go flying. I linked to some videos in a previous blog entry that a guy here at World made. The first one talks about sales, aircraft scheduling and so on. My involvement comes much later. But between sales and aircraft scheduling and me comes crew planning ( Read more... )

On the bright side, I've had some success at being frugal ( Read more... )

Not quite a week later, I'm finally catching up on last weekend. A full weekend of Monterey Jazz Festival activities is clearly not enough jazz (hah!), so we decided to get in on some more ( Read more... )