Category Archives: Travel

Travel Rx: iPad AND Kindle on Flight to Denver

 I’m on a Southwest flight, half way from Boston to Denver. In my “Life Is Good” cloth bag, I’m toting a Kindle 6-inch and the iPad on which I’m drafting this post in the Pages app.  I told Bryan … Continue reading

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Waking up with a good idea (or maybe not) in Las Vegas

We’re backing packing our bags at the Venetian just when the suite has become to feel like home.  An odd home indeed, but I enter our last day here for the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) invigorated and feeling mainly … Continue reading

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The News from Nebraska

Ah, Nebraska! It turns out I have roots there, which may explain the deep satisfaction I felt during Darlene’s and my long weekend in Omaha, visiting her family.  My great-grandfather Edgerly was born and raised in Omaha.  He wasn’t a … Continue reading

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Night Train to Boston

We are tearing through the darkness aboard Amtrak #94 to Boston. Maybe the engineer is trying to make up for lost time. At Old Saybrook, Connecticut, we waited 45 minutes for the 94 to navigate a problem to the west … Continue reading

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All Aboard

We’re approaching Old Saybrook, Connecticut, aboard an Amtrak regional train, number 93, which left Boston’s South Station about an hour ago.  I was surprised to learn that this train travels at speeds up to 120 miles per hour.  That’s snail … Continue reading

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Departing Denver…

We’re at Gate B22 at Denver International, waiting to Board United 996 nonstop to Boston.  The Yorkie Claire made it through security, as did my carry-on bag full of cables, Kindles, converters, videocams, SD card readers, and dongles of every … Continue reading

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An Articulate Brit’s Parting Shot for America

Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist‘s Washington bureau chief and, for the past 13 years, author of the paper’s “Lexington” column, suitably chose July 4th for a farewell column titled “Two Cheers for America.” It’s a great read, one of my first … Continue reading

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Mary, Mary Quite Twitter-Contrary

My friend Mary Anderson is 83 years old, and I had occasion to drive her and a another friend, Nancy, from Denver to the Limon Correctional Facility yesterday evening to participate in a program for offenders.  In Limon, we had … Continue reading

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What the Land Knows

We return to Denver this morning after three days visiting Casper, Wyoming, where my wife and I met 27 years ago and lived till moving to the city in 2000.  I’ve never really enjoyed the outdoors, to tell you the … Continue reading

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Just Visiting

I had a tour of the Limon Correctional Facility yesterday, in order to be cleared for helping to bring alcohol and drug addiction meetings into the prison.  It’s a sobering place, a state penitentiary plopped out in the middle of … Continue reading

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