Posts under ‘travel’

It’s the middle of June, and we still haven’t decided where we’re going for the summer road trip. It feels odd. In all our previous road trips, the decision would have been made months ago, and by now I would have accumulated a stack of state/provincial tourism pamphlets and maps. Originally, we’d thought of going [...]

Came home from a lovely lunch with Tawny and oh-so-cute Clara to find the Newfoundland and Labrador tourism book had been delivered. I’ve spent a good hour or so leafing through it, then going through the photos from our previous trips there in 2003 and 2006. And now I really can’t wait until summer, and [...]

Today, I pried my ass off the couch and went to visit my aunt and uncle for brunch. I haven’t seen them in about a year, for no other reason than I just the dropped the thread of it. It was good to get out of the city, to get out of the apartment, to [...]

Every year I write a little less about the Vegas gatherings. I no longer feel the desire to craft the four part recap. Actually at the rate I am going, next year’s might be one sentence. I am reluctant to throw out a lot of details, there are others who have done that better. The [...]

“You can tell a lot about a person by how they handle being inconvenienced.” He had the slightly oily voice of the career salesman. He’d just sat beside me at the bar. On the other side of me were the National Guardsmen from my delayed flight who were watching football and still complaining about the [...]

In the next five days, I have to: Mark 89 61 27assignments. Calculate 85 20 term marks. Write 85 57 20 individual and somewhat unique report card comments. Organize 9 7 lesson plans for missed classes next week. Bribe 1 teacher to do my corrections while I’m away. Go to 3 2 appointments for various aesthetic reasons. Do [...]

I have found my passport, and have checked to make sure that it is not expiring anytime soon. I have my card capper, my gold hammer pin and a US$ credit card set aside on the part of my desk now unofficially known as “crap to take to Vegas”. There are still lots of things [...]

This week has been awful, in ways both small and great. Pipe leak equaled no hot water one day, to fix it they had to turn off all power another day. I hurt my back so badly I could not go to work and spent two days laying on the floor and watching Firefly and [...]

When you look at a map of the Alaska Highway, you see dots along the road, little black dots that on a map of any other place would indicate that it’s a small village or town. Here they are different. The black dots are roadside stops, usually a family run enterprise that has gas pumps, [...]

Keith and I have been hanging out the last few days, going for drives both purposeful and aimless. Why driving? Because once more, I have returned from Okie Vegas limping. Unlike last year, it’s not because I drank too much and tripped in a hole 2″ deep. I was perfectly sober, and walking across the [...]