Happy Ending ( Read more... )

So far there have been the standard ups and downs on this trip. For everyone I might add, but I can only really delve into mine in other posts, yes? I think most of it deals with not knowing what’s going on (It can happen anywhere from jobs to foreign countries, so it’s not really a big surprise). But more often than not patience is spread thin and ( Read more... )

The24 hour race to Shanghai has ended. Not surprisingly, I wasn’t ready (it was a combo between overworking myself, and work travel that kept me from focusing on preparations for China), but Deana had put together a nice packet of our info from flights to hotels-complete with maps. I usually do this in my little moleskin book, but it still sits ( Read more... )

I think I may have one last Gonzo trip left in me. Except for times when I’ve either lived in another country, or was traveling throughout Europe for a few months, I have always felt like there wasn’t enough time. Most of that stems from knowing I only have anywhere from 1-3 weeks to experience an entire country and knowing that I probably won’t ( Read more... )

I’ve noticed there’s little thought involved when work asks if I want to go somewhere. Puerto Rico, Alaska, and now Nova Scotia were all knee-jerk responses of “Hell yeah I’ll go!” before remembering to check a calendar to see if I actually had the time to do it. I only turned down 1 trip (a road trip from Toronto(?) Canada to Boston checking our ( Read more... )

I’ve been taking violin lessons for about 7 months now, but this is the first time I’ve tried to take my violin through air travel. When I first started taking lessons, I got the warning lecture about leaving a violin in extreme temperatures. Even a car sitting in 70 degree weather can cook a violin to mortification. So when I drove out of town for ( Read more... )

Fridays are always my best days for travel. Usually I’ve worked my ass of for most of the week that I can coast on Fridays. I’ll save the harder to reach, enjoyable country drives for Friday as I make my way home and today is no different. I’m currently making my way up a country road to a reservoir where the most traffic I’m passing are fly ( Read more... )

I wasn't expecting much. In fact I often get tired of eating out whilst on the road. And when I end up in a small podunk town, I don't expect much. The last time I stayed here, I just went down to Glenwood for dinner ( Read more... )

I've been puttering around in the mountains for work again. It's of the "If it's worth doing once, it's worth doing many times" variety of work, so in order not to survey the same thing repeatedly, I got to work on a slightly different project that has me hunting down lost streets and trying to find ways around gated communities (there usually isn' ( Read more... )

So no shit, there I was sliding down a really rutted road that still held snow drifts from winter. I was deep in the woods, no one knew where I was aside from Breckenridge, and I was on the last roads of my survey (admittedly, I had picked these roads to survey, and even more admittedly, I really enjoy bouncing around on the 4WD roads as there’s ( Read more... )