Sigh… These last three weeks have been road trip central IAD-NRT and return, IAD-SAN and return, and now IAD-HNL… By the time you read this, I’m ‘hopefully’ back at IAD for four hours at home to repack the bag and … Continue reading
Category Archives: random travel
Back on the road… FINALLY after a 4 hour delay at IAD… But I’d rather have the pressurization problem fixed BEFORE we took off… Just sayin… So 10 hours (+4 delay) later, get to HNL, and the timing is ‘perfect’… … Continue reading
My post on Wednesday generated quite a few comments online, and a few emails… These two items are rather interesting… First, in the delicious irony category… For Latinos, who make up 38 percent of the state’s population, the landscape and … Continue reading
Today Yesterday… DEFINITELY football… Sigh… 0800, get ‘notification’ that my original flight is CANX, moved to 1630 departure… Get to DFW, sit for four hours… Flight is late, meaning I’ll miss my connection… Go to the club, the nice ladies … Continue reading
It’s always good to get a little downtime, and more so, when you get to spend it with friends… But it’s pretty bad when your sides hurt from laughing, but you know it’s going to be interesting when the perp … Continue reading
From the other side of the fence… Received the following from Tom Xxxxx, who was a Director with SW BELL in Mexico City: I spent five years working in Mexico. I worked under a tourist Visa for three months and … Continue reading
Seen at NRT in the ‘duty free’ area… Lemme see, move the decimal point two places to the left… Oh HELL no… I’m not paying $2700 a bottle for ANYTHING! And apparently the ‘good’ sushi is now off limits to … Continue reading
There are days when it just doesn’t pay to chew through the straps… Are we there yet? Are we there yet? ARE WE FRIKKIN THERE YET??? Sigh… 2 hours at IAD, then 14.1 IAD-NRT, 1 hour wait, then 3 hour bus … Continue reading
It’s that time again… I was hunting around for a good recording of Willie, but went down the rat hole and found this one… I can remember when this one came out, and it got into a pretty good rotation … Continue reading
We came, we saw, we shot… And I sucked… Sigh… Range time is a perishable skill, as I proved yesterday. Stopped by Casa de Keads for a few hours and we hit the local range with the Colt ‘Ponies’- Three … Continue reading