purchasing
every single time i go to purchase a plane ticket, i freeze up. i am petrified that i will slip up and buy my ticket for the wrong day or wrong week. i check the form at least a dozen times before clicking ‘send’ or ‘confirm.’ and then i panic for about a day that i’ve still managed to screw it up.
that said, i’ve purchased a (cheap!) plane ticket to san francisco for june! the modern love machine and i are game-on for our west-coast summer extravaganza.
may 11, 2012, knoxville, tenn.
confederate
i noticed a few confederate battle flags on my drive through the backwoods of kentucky today. i realize the commonwealth was a slave state and a confederate sympathizer, but for pete’s sake, kentucky remained in the union.
sept. 25, 2011, middlesboro, ky.
insomnia
the bartenders here in Ireland are masters of their trade. i appreciate and marvel at what they do until their drunken charges keep me awake into the wee hours of the morning with their chants and bar songs.
the clarence hotel, dublin, ireland, june 24, 2011
wedding dress
driving across tennessee with my wedding dress in tow reminds me of a trip i took with friends to oxford, ohio in 2007 for a friend’s wedding. i rode up from nashville with two guy friends, and we watched borat on a laptop. the wedding was at the university of miami, ohio, where the bride and groom went to school. after a lovely afternoon wedding we pub crawled hard into the wee hours of the morning with the newlyweds. the next day i had a sandwich for lunch that was my first experience with pretzel bread. it was named after ben rothlisberger and it changed my life. my two friends and i crammed back into the tiny two-door sports car, and this time the bride’s wedding dress rode with me in the back seat all the way to nashville.
a lot of crazy tales came from that weekend wedding trip. i hope our wedding can compare.
june 12, 2011, lebanon, tenn.
incommunicado
i spent about 20 minutes yesterday printing out hotel and bed and breakfast confirmations and google maps for our ireland trip — a task that should have only taken about five minutes. the extra time was spent trying to figure out physical locations of all our accommodations. hard and fast addresses in ireland don’t appear to exist outside of dublin, and even dublin’s street addresses are a bit wonky.
i wouldn’t be worried, except that we’ll be without the use of our handy dandy iphone 3g network in ireland, relying on wi-fi services that i’m guessing are iffy if they exist at all. my google maps app keeps me grounded when i’m outside the state of tennessee, and i’m concerned with how we’ll cope without it.
june 9, 2011, knoxville, tenn.
starting over, again
i’ve been on the road a lot lately and noticing that i always have thoughts when i’m traveling that i’d like to record. and what do you know, there’s an app for that.
so i’m starting the tumblr over again, this time with my witticisms and wisdom from the road, and maybe a few photos thrown in for good measure. i’ll probaby write posts in real time about my whereabouts and also recount some of my past travels.
