Apparently, I watch a lot of videos about flight and air travel. I mean…a lot. I guess a few things are at play: I think air travel is interesting, especially when it comes to the nuts and bolts of how it happens, why it goes like it does, and the protocols and procedures to make …
Category Archives: Travel
Turkeys and Dressings
Back home from seeing family for the holiday. This time around I really didn’t have any major insights or commentary about my hometown, my past, my future, or the cosmos at large. Didn’t really have much opportunity to get out and wander while I rolled thoughts in my head, although I was busy with things …
Molto Bene
Really feelin’ it. That demand to get out of here, a taste of escape. There’s a pair of screens in my office, on the wall directly facing me. One shows a dashboard of down servers. The other screen is hooked up to a Chromecast device, and as a screensaver, it shows an endless stream of …
Earthbound and Down
Perhaps the most sobering thought is that, after a lifetime of dreaming, I’m still going to die on this planet. That after thinking about galaxies, looking up at the stars, writing about extra-planetary travel, reading books and listening to programs about life out there, and trying to raise myself above whatever provincial concerns that surround …
Stumptown Thoughts
I’ve been asked to cobble together my thoughts on my trip to Portland, to give my impression on the city, the state, and its people. It’s taken me a while to digest and put it into words, because the city doesn’t exactly have a strong flavor. In my five days of taste-testing, there’s just no singular …