Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
I've (clearly) been pretty out of the blogging loop for the last several months, largely due to being busy getting married, and being wicked busy with work.
This morning, I'm jetlagged in Manila - and at a weird time, having come to Manila via a 24 hour stopover in Geneva, which ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I know, all the airline fees are the new thing to bitch about. I have just one complaint, for now: I arrived at Atlanta from Dubai and cleared immigration and customs pretty quickly. I had booked my connecting flight to allow for slower progress, and it turned out that there ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I've done some crazy trips, but this one I'm (finally) wrapping up may take the cake. It went like this:
Saturday (6/14): Fly Seattle to Amsterdam (arrive Sunday morning) Spend Sunday in a fog, have dinner with Ingrid and Michael Monday: panel discussion at ING Bank seminar ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
So apparently the folks at TSA have decided that there's a better way to get everyone through the security lines - I've seen this now at SEA at the beginning of this trip and again coming through security after clearing customs in Atlanta. Basic idea is this: three lanes, one ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
It's 11:18 PM in Boracay, Philippines, which means that it's 8:18 AM Seattle time... which means that I am wide bright-eyed awake. I should really be writing my performance review, or sleeping, but neither is particularly likely at the moment. I've taken my Ambien (almost took a Levaquin in its ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Waiting for delayed departure of flight to SFO today (high winds down there have them down to one runway)...
The entire North Satellite terminal smells like bacon, which is making me very hungry - but not for crappy airport bacon. Now Les Halles' bacon, that's a whole other story. ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
...from the last 24 hours in South Africa
My mantra, repeated continuously whilst driving here: "Drive on the left, Drive on the left, Drive on the left"
An important corollary to the above is "I'm sitting on the right" so that I override the muscle memory trying to gauge my ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Jetlagged or not, there's something pretty awesome about waking up in Cape Town... pleasantly warm, sunny skies, good coffee, and I'm just always happy to be in one of my favorite cities. Off to meetings and then either to take the cable car up to the top of Table Mountain ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
In the end, I made it onto the flight from Jo'burg to Cape Town tonight and that is a huge relief. I still have to navigate late night car rental at the airport (I think), find my hotel, and be lively for a 10 AM meeting after having slept very ...
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