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Dining with IUMike

This will be brief, but tonight (Sunday) I had dinner with IUMike at a Chinese restaurant somewhere near the Detroit Airport.

An absurdly long layover (between flight cutbacks and my bargain ticket price) meant that I had oodles of time to kill, so instead of going to the lounge and scarfing cookies for a few […]

November 24th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Diary | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

On the Pond’s West Side

I am in Detroit, and I am happy to report I have been fully inspected.

This morning, at the first security checkpoint in Frankfurt, I learned that my Timberland Boots contain just enough metal to set off the metal detector. Having learned my lesson, I took off my boots at the second checkpoint, only to […]

December 19th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Trips | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

B2B: Berlin to Bloomington

I can’t say that my trip to Bloomington was super exciting—as I write this I am somewhere over Northern Indiana heading toward my final air destination, Indianapolis.

Pretty much the entire trip was uneventful in a good way. My train from Weimar to Berlin was relatively sedate (the passengers, that is). While taking the S-Bahn […]

April 6th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Trips | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

On my way outta…

Elite Boarding

Originally uploaded by elmada.

Today is the day I depart these United States, heading for Germany.

And its already been a busy day. I got up at 7 after having had a very weird dream based off of last night’s movie, Rosemary’s Baby—a movie I watched with Rex, Koko, Boy, Jelymo, […]

August 5th, 2006 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Travels & Moving | Comments are closed