November 2009
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October 2009
16 posts
So now what?
I’m home, and I’ve had a long weekend to relax and hang out with my wife and get accustomed again to the idea that I don’t have to go get on a plane again tomorrow, etc.
One problem with doing all that in a month is that I didn’t really have time during the month to digest what all was going on. Now that I can sit still, I’m regretting not carving out a little more...
Day 31: Homeward Bound
On a flight to Portland, six hours give or take from JFK, getting in just a little before midnight. My wife is meeting me at the airport, to taxi home with me — we’re both impatient to see each other again. I spent most of the day feeling antsy because I didn’t have anything else I needed to plan for or take care of after last night’s meetup.
I’m coming home with...
Day 30: Delayed in Denver Int'l
Denver is a big airport with a nice looking main staging area and reasonably nice concourses, but it’s got fuckall for outlets and the free wifi is slow and loads things in an iframe with ads up top. Better than Long Beach, but that’s faint praise if ever I’ve given any.
I’d be less grumpy about the downsides if my plane had left on time (e.g. an hour or so ago), but...
Day 28: Down and Out in Denver
So I’m sick. Hopefully as sick as I’m going to get, to feel better already in the morning, etc, but right at the moment I’ve got a sore throat and a bit of a headache and some minor sinus action and I’m spaced out on cold medicine.
I’ve managed to squeak by with an apparently ridiculously robust immune system up to this point, so really I’m thankful that it...
Backlogged in O'Hare
Chicago was a great time, and I haven’t posted anything from it yet because I was too busy having a great time. More later when there’s more later.
Currently sitting in E9 at ORD, waiting on a plane that was apparently late out of Boston and has managed to touch down as of a minute or so ago, four minutes before it’s supposed to be taking off again. Chicago has been the only...
Day of weird flying
So:
For my SFO-LGB flight, they announced Final Boarding Call like five minutes after they announced pre-boarding, with barely a chance to announce by-section boarding in between. It was odd — presumably the product somehow of a VERY empty commuter flight down to LGB — and left me feeling annoyed about feeling guilty about not racing to board ASAP.
Now, in Long Beach, the gate for...
Day 23: Downtime in Long Beach
So I’m sitting here finally catching up on this blog in a bar in Long Beach, California, one of Jetblue’s two big hubs. ”Big” as in “number-of-connections-though”, to be clear; unlike Jetblue’s other big hub, JFK, no one would describe LGB as a big airport.
JFK’s T5 has like nine times as many gates just dedicated to its airline as LGB has...
September 2009
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Day 20: Hollywood Restaurant Fail
After an epic driving tour of some of LA yesterday (La Brea tarpits, check; Ameoba records, check; Griffith Park observatory, check; a whole lot of crappy traffic, check), and some serious food and drink and conversation at Carson’s place last night, I crawled into consciousness this morning and hitched a ride into Beverly Hills to see the local library branch.
Plan to wander 90210 from...
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow,...”
– T. H. White, The Once and Future King, a book I have liked a great deal so far (and which, have I mentioned this already, I have a hard time not viewing, in its first section, through the lens of my memories of Disney’s The Sword and the Stone, which is an odd enough phenomenon but one that...
Day 16: Interlude, part 1
I’m sitting in JFK, on my first long layover of the trip — I arrived from RDU at 12:37, and I’ll be leaving for PDX at 8:40. It’s 2:14 now, so I’ve got some time to kill to say the least.
Find me nattering on about the details a bit over on twitter as @joshmillard, if you’re nasty.
I’m continuing to have a great time on the trip, and nothing has yet...
Good news, bad news
Good news: I just discovered while searching for my kleenex that I had packed the Canon 5D’s batteries and charger in a separate bag from the rest of my (lost) accessories. Sweet relief!
Bad news: I feel like I’ve got a little nose cold today. But it might just be (and I’m hoping it is) just some allergy randomness + being worn out a little. Think I might try to snag a nap on...
Day 14: Wrapping up the roadtrip
So Philly was a marathon, Baltimore was a nice quiet relief, and DC was a great big party. We’re on the road north, now, me and Alex and our friend Roj who met us in DC for complicated logistical reasons. When we hit JFK, I’ll part ways and catch a plane until North Carolina.
The wisdom of mostly meeting up only every other day has become clear to me — Baltimore being a small,...
Fact:
Philly can drink. More later.
Road Trip Under Way
We’re currently driving south on state road 17 past Harriman State Park, which is not something we were planning to do, but we also weren’t planning to get onto 87 from 287 and once that happened (and “happened” seems like the right word for changing highways by not turning at all, harumph harumph) things just sort of went from there.
State 17 south is much, much prettier...
Day 10: One Third Done
Time has gone decidedly wonky for me at this point; I can’t believe it’s been ten days already, and I can’t believe it’s only been a week and a half so far. I’ve pretty much given up on know what day it is, which hasn’t really been much of a problem so long as I remember when I’m flying.
Currently at gate C2 in Louis Armstrong, waiting for my MSY-BOS...