It was a strange night. I went to sleep some time around 9:30/10. I awoke and glanced at the window — light was streaming in. My phone said it was 10:47 and I assumed I had severely overslept for the morning’s city tour, the jetlag and compounded sleeplessness having caught up to me. I gathered […]
Ugh. Maybe 10 minutes of sleep on that final leg. Not altogether at once, either. It was just the wrong time for me to be flying, an inexplicably too short 5 hour trip to enable me to get to sleep for an extended period of time, and the seats on that Delta 757 were incredibly […]
August 15, 2016: The High Road To Iceland I’m groggy… and not in a Nordic Viking/Caribbean Pirate swill drinkin’ way. I slept terribly last night. Part of it was waiting for Delta to call me back – the automated system told me they could do a callback when my place in line came up and […]
I’m packing up for my next marathon adventure and struggling with frazzled nerves, lack of sleep, and general worries about travel and airlines who lie. On top of that I just had an incredulous series of conversations with Amazon about an order snafu that was ENTIRELY their fault but took three phone calls to get […]
Yeah, yeah. I know. I KNOW. Last night I DID wind up at Pizza Ranch. I just couldn’t resist. So, yeah, I had more than a few Tuscan Roma thin crust slices… and a few BBQ Chicken, Mac and Cheese, Dessert Pizzas, some cranberry salad… hey, I had salad… that’s healthy-ish! I finally made it […]
Argh! Insomnia plus a last minute decision to buy cereal to use up some milk that’d curdle in the fridge while I’m away lead to a late night Kroger Brand Peanut Butter Cheerios bender. Not a huge issue except my big plan for Carbo loading tonight was to stop at my favorite buffet chain in […]
One lottery down. Turns out I won… or lost. Depends on your point of view. But I’ve rebooked my Southwest flights in November. Turns out it’s going to be cheaper to fly to Nashville, run the race, and then fly to Orlando versus flying from LA to MCO. Airlines are weird. Fortune favors two kinds […]
Aw, hell. So the Seven Continents Club got me again. Marathon Tours has finalized plans for their inaugural Madagascar Marathon and like a lemming of that small island off the coast of Africa, I am just following along. In June 2017, I’ll be there. It’s going to cost a small fortune but I’ll be there. […]
In Hawaii, there’s a marketing push built off of the local saying, “Eddie Would Go.” It’s based on the true life hero and surfer legend Eddie Aikau and refers to his going after big waves that other surfers would shy away from. The saying also honors his many life guarding saves and his courage to […]
A Man Gotta Have A Code… Omar Little, The Wire Steve and I have been on a Hanna Brothers Road Trip through the Southwest and amidst the miles of asphalt we’ve talked here and there about thing great and small. One conversational detour involved a man’s code. A mutual friend of ours is a crisis […]