Category: Up in the Air

Heading West — Day Five

« Photos from Day Five » Last Long Leg Written @ 08:35 MST | Saturday 15-Jul-06 | Salt Lake City,

Heading West — Day Four

« Photos from Day Four » Wyoming is Almost Done Written @ 12:00 MST | Friday 14-Jul-06 | Little America,

Heading West — Day Three

« Photos from Day Three » Rainy Again Written @ 11:42 CST | Thursday 13-Jul-06 | Gothenberg, NE We hit

Heading West — Day Two

« Photos from Day Two » Field of Opportunity Written @ 12:44 CST | Wednesday 12-Jul-06 | West Des Moines,

Where's My Reference Librarian?

Frank usually handles these things and does a far, far better job of it. I’m pretty stream-of-consciousness on my trip

Heading West — Day One

« Photos from Day One » The Very Rough Last Night in A2 Written @ 13:30 EST | Tuesday, 11-Jul-06

On Restless Beagles and Night-Before-Road-Trip Insomnia

Okay, so I thought the next post would be from Davenport, IA, but, thanks to one of the most wonderful

Countdown Begins

No, not of the shuttle Discovery, of my final week in Ann Arbor. It now seems like an amazingly fast

Cold Weather

Cold is finally here. Temps have been frigid the past several days, with highs not hitting 50 and lows easily

Wrong Again

It’s been back up in the mid-80s with high dewpoints for the past several days, just proving once again that

Autumn Is Here

Today did, in all seriousness, feel for the first time like autumn. It didn’t really get much above 60 degrees

Overheard Outside the School of Social Work

“It’s just like wintertime out here today!” “I know, isn’t it horrible?” And so the next five or six months

Autumn?

Yesterday actually felt like the first hints of autumn to me — it was very hot, like it’s been for

Weather Aplenty, But …..

More sudden and unpredictable afternoon cloudbursts today, complete with several suitably ominous lightning strikes and thunderclaps. But still no cicadas.

Traffic Nightmare

I get homesick for the Bay Area every now and then, but not on days like this: Officials are continuing

Your Travel Guide to Baghdad-By-The-Bay (2002)

‘I sat in the Delhi airport and watched the big electric clock in the departure hall that tells passengers when