My title echoes two things: Dr. Smith on the 1960s TV series Lost in Space who was always melodramatically aggrieved and would demonstrate it by saying, “Oh, the pain! The Pain!” The second echo comes from the Ayreon album, The Human Equation, following the mental workings of a comatose man after a car crash. TheContinue reading “Day Eight: The Pain! The Pain!”
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Day One: London
The travel to Heathrow by air was not too bad. We had a great pair of Air Canada counter employees help us check-in and then board; they seemed to be the majority of the staff and moved back and forth with positive attitudes all the time. (This would prove to be the exception for theContinue reading “Day One: London”
I’m Back…Mostly…
I took a lengthy break from daily blog posts while on a tour of the UK. You’ll be able to read more about that soon, as I dissect the torture—er, I mean vacation trip through England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Part of the torture came from an intestinal bug that luckily affected only Joyce andContinue reading “I’m Back…Mostly…”
Travel Travails
What are your future travel plans? Actually, I have nothing to say here today about the travails of traveling, but I did want to comment about these prompts, which seem to be repeating themselves a bit, with minor variations. Since I try to not repeat myself (though I don’t always succeed), I’d like the promptsContinue reading “Travel Travails”
Countries to Visit?
What countries do you want to visit? I was going to begin with a list of places I did not want to visit, but thought that sounded negative, so I’ll begin with the positive “where I do want to go” places. Since we already have a trip to the UK planned for this fall (England,Continue reading “Countries to Visit?”
Arriving Somewhere…Not Here…
What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why? In the run-up to the last election, I posted a short video on TikTok, asking, “What are you for?” So many people were posting what they were against, and I thought I’d take a more positive approach. The one longer comment I gotContinue reading “Arriving Somewhere…Not Here…”
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