August 18, 2016 – A Long Day Tour’s Journey Into Bright Light Night The tour started at 7:40 am. A quick breakfast at seven and then it was onto the bus for a projected 14-15 hour “Day Tour.” Spoiler Alert – We finally get back to the hotel at 12:23 am. So that’s almost 17 […]
Ugh. The heat index is supposedly 106 degrees. But I’ve gone out for a run to try and rollback a few of the calories I’ve overdone lately and as part of my patent pending “Shock and Awe” medicinal cure. I’ve got a scratchy, sore throat and general malaise feeling. I’m hoping it’s just cumulative jetlag […]
Kevin’s Note: I had written half of a post for today on my Delta flights home. But ultimately most of that should be jettisoned and used only for my complaint email to that airline. Instead, here’s a short-short version update: 3:45 AM — I wake up and realize I had set my 3:30 alarm for […]
It was a strange night. I went to sleep some time around 9:30/10. I awoke and glanced at the window — light was streaming in. My phone said it was 10:47 and I assumed I had severely overslept for the morning’s city tour, the jetlag and compounded sleeplessness having caught up to me. I gathered […]
Ugh. Maybe 10 minutes of sleep on that final leg. Not altogether at once, either. It was just the wrong time for me to be flying, an inexplicably too short 5 hour trip to enable me to get to sleep for an extended period of time, and the seats on that Delta 757 were incredibly […]
August 15, 2016: The High Road To Iceland I’m groggy… and not in a Nordic Viking/Caribbean Pirate swill drinkin’ way. I slept terribly last night. Part of it was waiting for Delta to call me back – the automated system told me they could do a callback when my place in line came up and […]
I’m packing up for my next marathon adventure and struggling with frazzled nerves, lack of sleep, and general worries about travel and airlines who lie. On top of that I just had an incredulous series of conversations with Amazon about an order snafu that was ENTIRELY their fault but took three phone calls to get […]
Yeah, yeah. I know. I KNOW. Last night I DID wind up at Pizza Ranch. I just couldn’t resist. So, yeah, I had more than a few Tuscan Roma thin crust slices… and a few BBQ Chicken, Mac and Cheese, Dessert Pizzas, some cranberry salad… hey, I had salad… that’s healthy-ish! I finally made it […]
Argh! Insomnia plus a last minute decision to buy cereal to use up some milk that’d curdle in the fridge while I’m away lead to a late night Kroger Brand Peanut Butter Cheerios bender. Not a huge issue except my big plan for Carbo loading tonight was to stop at my favorite buffet chain in […]
One lottery down. Turns out I won… or lost. Depends on your point of view. But I’ve rebooked my Southwest flights in November. Turns out it’s going to be cheaper to fly to Nashville, run the race, and then fly to Orlando versus flying from LA to MCO. Airlines are weird. Fortune favors two kinds […]