My apologies to Tom Wolfe, but I couldn’t resist (if you don’t get the joke, google Tom Wolfe, find the book and read it). Today started with my company meeting. Everyone was forced to make important decisions at 9:00 — I went for the Bloody Mary, not the Mimosa — it was a brutal meeting …
Category: Travel
The Sun Did Come Up…
After getting up at 1:30 (ok, 1:40 after hitting snooze), we took a sunrise tour up Haleakala to see the sunrise. Unfortunately, nature wasn’t on our side. We glimpsed beautiful streaks of pink between the clouds, and then it was light. I was freezing the whole time, but despite all that, it was worth it. …
Travel day
It has been a very long travel day. We left our house at 8am CST and arrived in our hotel room at 7pm in the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone. Adjusting that back to CST, it is midnight. That is the thing about traveling, flying time was about 10 hours, but the elapsed time was 16 hours. …
I am just forgetful
We leave tomorrow so last weekend we started our packing processes, which like so many things are very different. Sue seems to just keep it all in her head and then grabs things willy-nilly and chucks them into a suitcase (I can hold a lot more in my brain than some other people) – or that is …
The Space Between the Plans
Steven and I are both planners, but in very different ways. My planning: "Hey this looks really cool. Kayak to Gilligan's Island. Let's go!" Then I am done. Steven, as you saw, makes spreadsheets. I kind of have a spreadsheet in my head—more of a "these are the things I want to do while I'm …
The Booking Elves
Well, the booking elves have been busy (read Sue, as she is our official booker). (I found this out accidentally, when Steven said, "Did you book that? You're the booker.") We broke down the trip by day and then started to work through our list of possible adventures. Some of them we don’t need to …
Hawaii, Oh boy :(
A free trip to Hawaii. Wow, right? I don't know; I just wasn't feeling it. It's the middle of the school year. It's a long flight to just sit on the beach. I don't need any more skin cancer. It will probably be the first nice weather week in Chicago. I had all kinds of …
Aloha
Just a few ideas Steven has for our Hawaii trip.
Doing It On The Road 