Posted in Travel on Mar 13th, 2011
Saturday morning I struggled to decide out what I should do on my last day. I kind of wanted to go back to the UC Botanical Garden to see the rest, maybe go visit a museum, go shopping, or just walk around outside.
While making up my fickle mind, I drove down the Warren Freeway behind [...]
Posted in Travel on Mar 13th, 2011
Wednesday morning I packed up and left Berkeley for Death Valley. I actually had some initial hesitation about this, since the bay was so nice and the drive would eat a lot of time. This is something I had wanted to do since last summer, when I expected to have a nomadic lifestyle for a [...]
Posted in Travel on Mar 13th, 2011
Against my strong hatred for the cold, wet, dark-at-4 PM PNW winter and contrary to everything I’ve been saying, I unexpectedly took a new and better job that’s going to keep me here for the time being (and at least another winter). I took the opportunity of a week off between jobs and headed down [...]
Posted in Travel on Jan 5th, 2011
For New Years, I had Thursday and Friday off work. I haven’t been on a good road trip since moving, and I was itching to go explore and see some sun. I had the loose idea of driving to SF, then following the 101 back up the coast since I’d only covered half way long [...]
Posted in Travel on Aug 22nd, 2010
All photos over on Flickr.
Saturday, Aug 21: It wasn’t until I was laying on the toolbox of my truck gazing at the stars from the side of the road that I realized I found a solitude I hadn’t been looking for. Up until now I was tired from driving all day, a bit gloomy from [...]
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2010
This weekend lead me on a last minute trip to Houston, and ultimately to New Orleans. The drive surprisingly wasn’t bad, roughly 500 miles and takes about an hour longer than it does to get to my parent’s. I-10 going east is certainly much nicer scenery than it is going west, more green and [...]
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2006
4:30 AM EDT: What time I woke up to go to IAD.
12:00 PM CDT: Landed in Austin.
37 C (98.6 F): The temperature in Austin when I got off the plane.
23 days, 6 hours: How long I was parked at the airport.
I’m beat. As soon as I got in the plane at IAD, I [...]
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2006
Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh, still in Virginia! My trip was originally extended from Monday to Thursday. I was up all night Wednesday night tearing down our old cage and doing some work so there’d be no reason to extend my trip again. Maintenance work went sideways this morning, so here I am [...]
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized on May 28th, 2006
Here I am in Ashburn, Virginia. I’ve been here for eleven days now, since May 17, for work. If all goes to plan, I should be flying back in eight more days. It’s been a hard week, with some very long exhausting hours. I finally caught up on my sleep over [...]
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2006
I returned from Virginia yesterday and am almost over my cold. Descending in the plane wasn’t painful, but my head felt like it had a lot of pressure built up on it. I went through almost an entire roll of toilet paper to blow my nose. It and my [...]
