Meeting people
Thursday evening I wrote from on-board a Southwest Airlines flight. I thought I'd spend the flight reading the excellent Pro Drupal Development book that I'd picked up earlier in the week. Instead I...
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We're nearing setting out on a trip through the Pacific Northwest. There was a time when popping into Canada meant significant savings because the US Dollar was much stronger than the Canadian Dollar....
View ArticleDay 1: Sandy Valley, Nevada to Mammoth, California
We're starting out on a road trip through the Pacific Northwest. There should be pictures soon to go along with the stories and the reason for their delay will soon become clear when we get to the...
View ArticleDay 2: Mammoth Lakes to Susanville
Waking to the aroma of pine is certainly a signal for a desert boy that he is sleeping in the hills. After packing the car, in itself a major undertaking with the trappings of an infant on board, we...
View ArticleDay 3: Susanville, California to Bend, Oregon
A brisk dawn met us on the next day of the trip. The thin air of Susanville had a welcome crispness to it as we made the morning rounds. After breakfast at the Trailside Inn Sarah made a stop at the...
View ArticleGulf of Mexico
Writing this afternoon from 35,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico. We're returning from CTC10 in Tampa, Florida. The presentation on the reconfigurable courtroom went very well and I'll be looking to...
View ArticleWeekend oddities
A couple of odd things happened this weekend. First I was traveling from Tampa to Las Vegas on Friday and checked a bag. I'd taken a larger bag than necessary because my suit didn't fit well in the...
View ArticleIf only Google Calendar did time zones
With a bit of a busy travel schedule coming up I'm in the throws of entering all the flight information in Google Calendar. Google Calendar does many things very well and it works superbly with the...
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Portland Airport (PDX) and the right way to do Wifi
At the Portland airport today traveling after an excellent Portland DrupalCamp. The day got busy yesterday and I fell behind in updating my post but that will come later. In the meantime it is worth...
View ArticleHappy people are reading more but...
Today was a conference day and then a travel evening. Stopping through the time zones across the country some of those pesky little nits about the way rude people travel come to mind. Leaving Baltimore...
View ArticleLooking in all the wrong places
Some recent unbookings for Las Vegas meetings have Sin City tourism officials concerned. Last year's meeting revenue was off 5% before the recent spate of backlash.Having recently traveled through...
View ArticleGetting to Drupalcon
On the trip to the airport I was reflecting on just where Drupal has taken me. On one hand having chosen nearer the beginning of the decade to use this open source PHP-based content management system...
View ArticleStealing from the airlines
Yesterday there was a story on the news about voice being given to the thought of pay toilets on airlines. Now we're all certainly tired of fees and some airlines, like Southwest, are taking advantage...
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Getting there
Arriving at Boise Airport this morning I checked the board for my flight. While it wasn't listed yet something surprising was. US Airways has a flight listed on the board from Boise to Boston. How...
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Using iPad to hold your photos while on vacation
A family member recently sent a question to my wife about how to keep photos safe while traveling.And speaking of road trips, we are heading to Hawaii and are planning on getting an iPad for...
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Oh the places you'll go...
It could have been worseAll things considered I'm a pretty good traveler. I've racked up more than a handful of frequent flyer miles criss-crossing the globe to help deliver Open Source software to...
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