A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
What follows is a transcript of periodic observations during my ordeal in transience between Xuzhou and Xiangfan last week. Hard to believe that it was just last Tuesday. Anyways, it kind of runs the gamut from anthropological naval-gazing, self-piteous lamentations, to just matter of fact “this just happened.” Looking back on this, detached by even [...]
(written originally somewhere mid-flight between Dalian and Xuzhou)
If ever I had anything positive to say about Asian children, I take it back. I would expect anyone to have a similar change of heart should one have their things abruptly manhandled (or kidhandled, I suppose) in the manner that I did.
It goes like this:
I’m sitting in [...]
Oh gee. They’re turning off all the lights in Departures.
Perhaps one of the more annoying thing about having all my baggage on me, alone, with nothing to do with them, is that I can’t really go to the bathroom without risking having all my stuff stolen from me.
This sucks.
So far, this leg of my journey has been pretty godawful. It’s been a graceful snowball of small things (and one gigantic thing) into a literal mess that now leaves me sitting in the departures terminal (not behind security) at Incheon International at 8:37 PM until 6 AM tomorrow morning, when they’ll let me check [...]
The last ten minutes of my flight into Ted Stevens* Intl.
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*I still can’t get over that one.
[Written originally in Minneapolis Intl. Airport on June 6th, 2009 at 2:03 PM]
So I owe the internet two reports – one from much earlier to do with travel and metaphors, and another from this past weekend to do with the wedding that had me in Chicago. As of right now, I’m completely zapped. Circumstances being [...]
It seems I still haven’t been able to get a hold of that cursed Apple product I managed to get my hands on. Its possible that the battery is sapped, but… I don’t know. In any case, in lieu of a portable music player, I’m now listening to the sweet, time consuming vocal chords of [...]