In late July 2015, I was headed to the Ayer’s Rock to run the Australian Outback Marathon. We were on Virgin Australia flight 1627 out of Sydney. Twenty minutes from landing, the pilot came on the PA and told us mechanical trouble with the aircraft meant we had to turn around and return to our […]
Chuck Savage is a guy I know. He’s great. I’ve seen him at races and I’ve run a few of the events he directs. In fact, I finished my 50sub4 quest with two of his events. For the last few years he’s put on the Savage Seven race series in Ocala, Florida. It’s a daily […]
I belong to a number of running groups and today somebody posted this discount code for the Philadelphia Marathon. I’m already slated to do a six day Mainly Marathon series that finishes on Saturday the 19th of November. I’ve spent the morning checking flights to Philly to see if there was any way I could […]
Bags are packed and checked in. Seats assigned. Sitting in the airport waiting to board. I ran this morning a short-ish 6 miler as I’ll be sitting for quite some time. I’m leaving on a jet plane for Johannesburg. And to get there, I’m flying through Dubai. I think Mom is more excited about flying […]
Machu Picchu was not a secret to its people. Scholars for decades felt Hiriam Bingham had rediscovered a lost city of the Incans. Books were written, digs were dug, and artifacts displayed worldwide. Charleton Heston shot on location there, donning a fedora and a leather jacket to swashbuckle his way through a 1954 technicolor jungle […]
June 12, 2016 – The Long Voyage Home What a night. Each leg of the three flights are short. About an hour from Cusco to Lima, three hours from Lima to Bogota, and then three and a half to Orlando. But the layovers kill me. Two hours in Lima where I broke down and had […]
June 7, 2016 – The Lost Days First segment drafted at 11:27 AM (I think) I have no idea what day or time it is. The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s anthem, “Let’s Do the Time Warp Again!” floats though the haze of my mind. Yesterday… Or maybe even just earlier today if today is 36+ […]
June 6, 2016 – D-Day, as in Departure Day One last crème brulee before I go. Rodrigo caught me at breakfast to say that the flight out of Easter Island might be delayed… he wasn’t sure. It might be cancelled. He wasn’t sure. Some websites were saying it was delayed, some were saying it was […]
June 4, 2016 – Forget it, Kevin. It’s Rapa Nui. Still no word from Skywalker or Solo. It’s an ominous phrase in The Empire Strikes Back, a featured extra line that resonates through the opening scenes of Hoth; her friends and our heroes are lost and Princess Leia feels the cold in so many ways. […]
June 1, 2016 (An Addendum) I’m seeing stars. And everything is blood red. I’ve just conked my head getting into the shuttle van. It feels like I should have amnesia… and that would be preferable to the throbbing pain that shoots from the tips of my hair follicles through my skull and into the very […]