sters, well be in the land of lions and leopards in 8 short hours.
I've declared this segment of the flight to be the 'booze cruise' segment. Hilarity

In exactly one week from this moment I will be wheels up and on my way to Kilimanjaro.

It seems that my Soon-to-be-African-Traveling-Companion has blessed me with her travel karma. I'd go into more detail at the moment but I'm really too tired and pissed off at a certain airline (whose vaunted new "Customer Bill of Rights" is evidently good for nothing except to provide something for their employees to point at to explain why they ( Read more... )

So, around three years ago I go in for a regular physical and find out that my cholesterol numbers are pretty bad. Not uber-horrendously bad, but bad enough that my doc wanted me to start taking some medicine for it (he also noted the steady trend of both my weight and waist steadily increasing over the years). So I got the scrip and took a few ( Read more... )

cruise director to jump on the mike and pump up tomorrow morning's shuffleboard tournament on the promenade deck...

Eating really good chinese food listening to retirees singing really bad karaoke with 'cinco de mayo' decorations everywhere - I'm waiting for Julie the

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One of the side effects of planning your 20-year HS reunion is that you re-connect with people you haven't heard from in ages. Sometimes those people have...interesting pictures to share.


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For all you east coast peeps who need helping looking busy for the end of the day.

I finally finished going through all my Papua New Guinea pictures and picking out/cleaning up the ones I like best. If you don't like fish then don't click on the "Underwater" gallery ;-)


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After easily the longest travel day in my life (anytime your flight takes off and then lands at exactly the same time - 17 hours later you know its a long travel day*) I am home and started to feel rested. I am still going through pictures and organizing my thoughts, but y'all can expect a monster post (or more likely a bunch of moderately big ( Read more... )