In the mid-life analysis, I have no one to blame but myself. I’m at fault. I foolishly assumed that by confirming the availability on the website and by paying my money, the tour would actually happen. And barring that, that someone would contact me if there were issues, changes, cancellations. I’ve been standing outside the […]
I can’t say what made me fall in love with Vietnam. That a woman’s voice can drug you? That everything is so intense, the colours, the taste, even the rain? ‘Nothing like the filthy rain in London.’ They say whatever you’re looking for you will find here. They say you come to Vietnam and you […]
Trips and Trepidations – REDACTED If I’m being honest, a lot of what I’ve been writing and posting has all been anxiety fueled smoke and mirror distractions. I’m nervous about my trek to Vietnam. Besides the historical weight of colonialism, communism, war and crimes against humanity on all sides, I’m also just feeling … old? […]
Ugh. I feel terrible. It’s not the fast turnaround from LAX to home to LAX to 36,000 feet. Though to be fair that’s not helping. It’s not the terrible hair day I seem to be perpetually enduring (seriously – what is happening to my hairline? It’s like global warming is melting the ice caps AND […]
It’s happening again. The day started at 0600… what does the “O” stand for? “Oh my god it’s early!” A slow Lyft ride that wound up costing more than I wanted has brought me to LAX. As I wait to board, it seemed appropriate that I watch a movie… that I watch this movie:
I had planned on just sitting in a movie theater watching some vacuous French space spectacle. But Seattle traffic and insane parking rates sabotaged such thoughts. There’s too many one way streets, divided roadways both horizontally and vertically requiring overpasses, underpasses, right turns to loop back around left ( but not like the Jersey jughandles), […]
When I booked my tickets, I must have thought July had 32 days. Tonight I get back from Seattle into LAX at 11:25 PM. Sadly, knowing what a disaster that airport is, I suspect we’ll land and then taxi for 45 minutes, meaning I should be out to the curb waiting for a Lyft by […]
I had every intention of making the trek out to Poulsbo, WA. This small town is on the Kitsap Peninsula, a slice of Norway in the Puget Sound. It is also home to the Kiana Lodge that was used for the interiors of the Great Northern Lodge on Twin Peaks… as well as offering the […]
The best part of any trip? Seeing a classic friend so clearly happy. My sincere thanks to Taylor (and Elliott and Megan) for coming out to meet me tonight on my last night in town.
What we had here was a failure to launch. I was behind before even the word “go.” I bumped into a running buddy in the parking lot. He asked if I was really trying to hit sub-3 on the second day of races. When I said yes, he laughed and said, “you’re stupid.” It was […]