It was raining when I started… an omen mayhaps? A long drive can go a lot of different ways. Today’s 8 hour trek out to Sedona went my second least favorite way. It afforded a wooden nickel tour through my memory palace, with my mind shuffling through the libraries of lament, the salons of sorrow, […]
This hotel claims to have WiFi and it does … I can connect to the internal network but can’t seem to get connected to the internet thereafter. And my cell connection is a bit spotty here — uploading photos is proving difficult to say the least. Let me just go run a marathon and then […]
Given that it’s Groundhog Day and therefore I should repeat things, seriously, does anybody have an aspirin? Aside from that, I suppose I should take a page from Edge of Tomorrow, and Live, Run, Repeat. So despite not feeling great, I laced up my shoes and got out the door. Maybe I should have taken […]
There are cinematic tropes — cliches if one isn’t being so highfalutin — that foreshadow ill health tragedy. A lead character rubs his or her head and says, “I just need an aspirin…” and by the end of the picture he or she has a brain tumor. Someone coughs into a handkerchief and there’s a […]
I imagine this is how Daniel LaRusso felt at the Under-18 All-Valley Karate Tournament. My knee and leg feels like it’s been swept all right. The last 24 hours it’s been debilitatingly tender, with flashes of pain based on movement, non-movement, at random times. Unable to sleep, I finally gave up and headed out the […]
A little better… A slightly improved pace this morning. Perhaps it was a later start that also afforded me a chance to witness a sunrise at Huxley. That moment prompted a Facebook post with the caption,”O brave new world that has such sunrises in it.” I’m feeling a bit more under the weather — not […]
I do not feel well. At all. My throat feels like sand paper, I’m exhausted but unable to sleep, and I just basically can’t get it together today at all. Because of the 12 hour time zone shifts, I’m having issues with sleep. I seem to get an hour or two nap at random times […]
Like a calf being prepped for the return of the prodigal son’s dinner, I’m fattened up by the last few days. The entree food on KLM isn’t particularly good, but the desserts are pretty alright – a cheesecake side dish and… tha-tha-tha-that’s not all, folks! the complimentary caramel waffle cookies were over indulged by this […]
The end is worse than the beginning… It was too early for the coffee bar to serve drinks and croissants; we were able to talk the buffet breakfast down to an arbitrary charge of 3 rials a person for coffee and pastries. Better than 10 rials I suppose but more than I would’ve liked. On […]
After a pricey but decent tour today, I’ve got to go catch my flight out of Muscat International Airport in a few minutes. I’m uploading files as I go and I’ll write up a proper post on this final day in Oman over the next 23 hours and 48 minutes — the approximate flying time […]