Checked into Holiday Inn in New Jersey. This hotel may redefine the meaning of cheap. So tired!
Travel
Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.
Just loaded summer travel plans into Dopplr. Phew!
Mount Your iPhone While Flying
Ever since I’ve gotten my iPhone I now have a new routine before I travel. I make sure to sync the iPhone with iTunes and get all the most recent episodes of podcasts, and maybe a movie and some TV shows while I’m at it. Since the iPhone is my all-in-one device, it’s great to be …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Mount Your iPhone While FlyingLinksys WTR-54GS: Making Travel Better for Internet Junkies
I recently picked up a Linksys WTR-54GS travel router based on the positive recommendation of my friend Chris. He had gotten one before going on a big trip to make sure that he had WiFi in all the locations he wanted it and it worked really well. I’ve considered getting something …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Linksys WTR-54GS: Making Travel Better for Internet JunkiesMixed Green Messages
I just took a trip to San Francisco. The hotel I stayed in had some odd mixed messages related to green issues. They encouraged me to forego daily washing of my linens and towels so that I could help them help the environment. This always makes sense to me. Who changes there …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Mixed Green MessagesSous Les Sapins
Pleading that the seat next to me remains unoccupied.
Flying Rule #754: Don’t leave your stupid bag 6" outside the overhead!
Flying Rule #755: Don’t open the closed bins!
Last Wednesday night Jim and I decided to go see a Mets game while in NY for business. We took a long train ride on the 7 out to Shea Stadium and picked up some tickets. We got some absolutely great tickets off of the 3rd base side. This was my second time at Shea, and oddly both times they were playing Atlanta. It was a lot of fun to see the game with Jim who knows more about baseball than I could ever know. He filled me in on some great trivia about the Mets that made me enjoy the game even more.
It was a great night. The game was awesome, with the Mets holding off the Braves for the win. The Mets fans are simply the best. These people express every range of human emotion, amplified to 11, through the course of a single game. Top it off with a wonderful evening outside, even though it was hotter and more humid than any of us would have liked. Baseball is meant to be played in that type of venue. As Jim said, “we could be watching a herd of goats grazing and it would still be great”. You bet! It will be great when the Twins get their new stadium.
Now I just have to figure out how to get to a Yankees game!
Canadian Fishing Trip Recap
A few weeks ago I went on a fishing trip into Canada with my three brother-in-laws and our father-in-law, Don, as well as his brother, Roger, his son and son-in-laws and oldest grandson. The 10 of us adventured up into the wilderness to catch huge Northern Pike and Walleye. Don …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Canadian Fishing Trip Recap- Landed in NY. Getting ready to deplane.
- Cab ride is horrible. Traffic is a mess. Getting naseous.
- Trying to avoid the pool of water on the floor of this cab.
- Finally at World Financial Center. Need to get some food to relieve nauseous feeling.
- Noting how much New Yorkers love to talk about how they got from one place to another – what trains, streets, taxis, etc.