We have successfully completed the first leg of our summer vacation; a five hour drive to Tifton, GA. We’re staying in “everyone’s second home”, the Tifton Holiday Inn. Right off the bat the hotel exceeded my expectations – free local calls! With my iBook handy, I am ready, willing, and able to milk that deal for all it’s worth. Beth and Mem-May (sorry kids…
This is the way I prefer to travel. I’m in my own world, a cool breeze from the air-conditioner blowing in my face, fingers caressing my keyboard in musical world of my own. My eyes are closed. My wife is talking to her mother in the front seat. My father in law and daughter are watching a movie in the second row. Me? I’m sitting in the last row by myself. It has the least leg room of…
Put yourself in a scene with four other people. Place yourself off to one side, able to observe the others unobtrusively. Now remove all of the audio. Cheryl is looking at her mother, mouthing the occational phrase. When she’s not using it for speech she’s using it to cannibalize her fingers. Cheryl’s mother is driving. Her eyes are obscured by dark sunglasses, but you can sense…
There is something to be said for portability. I carry a Palm OS handheld nearly everywhere I go. Being able to keep the books I’m reading right there on my handheld, nearly everywhere I go, has been pretty cool. The downside? I have an interesting book with me nearly everywhere I go. Ask yourself this: would you rather work or read that cool book that you can barely put down? That’s a…
Sitting in bed, thunder rumbling outside. A television on, the child-like voices of cartoon characters fill the room. A woman sitting in the corner quietly reading through hotel literature. Ear bud headphones pine away like speakers made of glass. Grunge rock softly overwhelms the background noise.
Two of us are waiting for the rain to stop. One of us is waiting for the head ache to stop. Two of…
I haven’t decided if it is better to leave or to be left. Last Friday we were heading home to finish off our trip to New Orleans. I was sitting in our car with Cheryl and Beth, the engine running, everything packed in, mentally preparing to pull out of our parking spot in my sister’s building for one last time. It was a sad moment. Travel can be a bit of an ordeal, but it is a…
He has left, and the disturbance has gone with him. You know a vacation is coming on soon when you find yourself sitting at your desk with your mind on vacation a week early. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to do the drive and how many hours I’d like to get in the first day. I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to do when I get there and anticipating how much…
Cheryl and I disagree on when it is appropriate to swear. Cheryl is firmly in the “never” camp. I on the other hand am a firm believer in the well placed, as needed, off color explicative.
We were all walking through the park. I feel kind of silly because I was looking down, so I should have seen it coming. No sooner did I notice the writing on the floor did I feel a thump on my head.