Entries Tagged as ‘travel’

December 23, 2008

In Which Jeremy Made Me Think Of Two Completely Unrelated Stories.

Inspired by this conversation, I will now share two stories with the internets:
1. I was down in LA for some training or something a few years back, and while I was at the airport waiting for my flight to board, I noticed a woman sitting across from me who looked pretty familiar, but I couldn’t [...]

October 7, 2008

In Which I Finally Post About Rocks.

Life, illness, and just plain procrastination kept me from getting this up any sooner. I apologize to those who helped me with these thoughts, and hope you find this at least half as interesting and inspiring as I did.

April 15, 2008

In Which Goofy Is Better Than Pluto.

Another post inspired by a poll over at This or That?:
In September 2004 we took the boys to Disneyland with Grandma and Grandpa. We went a couple of weeks after school had started; Chester was 4 1/2 and Peanut was 9 months old. We drove (of course; The Wise One hates to fly and our [...]

February 26, 2008

In Which Jesse Jackson Saved My Life.

Inspired by a poll over at This or That, I hereby recount the story of how Jesse Jackson saved my life:
In 1987, my parents, my sister, my aunt, my cousin and I all piled into our station wagon and left Olympia, Washington, for a journey around the United States.
At that point, I had been to [...]