Jet lag is a real thing. I think I finally drifted off into fitful waking sleep around 5:30 am. I awoke to this “alarm clock” at 7/7:30-ish. So far my one criticism of Dubai is its construction hours start time! I opted to get up and shower off whatever vestiges of travel and slumber remained. […]
While there was a long line at immigration, it actually moved pretty swiftly. I don’t know what happened with the visa requirement — I thought I had to pay for one when I landed but maybe that’s in Oman. I stopped by an ATM to get some AED currency, partly to always have some for […]
Hurry Up and Wait – Traveling is SO Glamorous With the delays out of LAX, we arrived into CDG with minutes to make my connection. I dashed through the airport like OJ Simpson in those old Alamo (or was it Avis?) commercials, ya know, before “the juice is loose” took on new meanings. I fretted […]
These are turbulent times… I think it was 22 years ago that I found out about an especially intriguing part of NASA’s astronaut training. I somehow had seemingly always known prospective spacemen and spacewomen had trained in swimming pools as part of approximations of weightlessness. But it was only during press tours for Ron Howard’s […]
The good people at the Muscat Marathon are counting down to the race on January 27th over on their Facebook page. This is one of the more recent posts: The link takes you to an article from January 4th entitled, “Oman Sports: How to best prepare for Muscat Marathon 2017?” It advises runners that there’s […]
Nothing like starting the trip with a heart attack. I received this urgent text alert from Delta telling me my flight was cancelled. When I checked the details, I was confronted with this: It was ALWAYS a code share flight with AirFrance. The flight wasn’t really cancelled… they just put AirFrance as the primary flight […]
I *think* most of my runDisney photos have been found and uploaded to my online gallery. They had to track down my Kylo Ren and Chewbacca pics from the 10K but a quick note and an iPhone sample pic later and they found them lickety split. A few of my iPhone shots actually turned out […]
Ok. This is a quick update as I have to run… but then, don’t I always? Here’s a photo album’s worth of pictures, ‘cuz they’re each worth at least 10 words though not the full 1000 to be sure. I’ve tried to provide a few choice commentary quotes as I uploaded them: The first image: […]
The race announcers, Carissa and Kwame, kept talking about this as the 3rd year of the Star Wars Light Side Half Marathon Weekend at Disneyland. I’ve been here each year and I can tell you this wasn’t always the Light Side. The very first year it was the straight up Star Wars Half Marathon weekend […]
I’m still bandaged. I’m bruising up not so nicely too, like a fruit dropped on the floor repeatedly at the supermarket and placed back in the bin for some unsuspecting customer. But that’s not why this post is titled “Ouch.” Well, okay, maybe it is — who knew how often I rested my elbow on […]