Tag Archives: Travel

Flying with Toothpaste

I used to love flying.  I’d sit by the window and revel in glorious creation, both Divine and human, as I sat both ensconced in it and removed from it, watching, thrilled, as the farmland, villages, mountains, lakes and cities went by under the wings that cut through wispy clouds.  It was true heaven as [...]

Learning Spanish – What a Pity

When I was thirteen my father, his second wife and their then two young children moved to the Dominican Republic, the country that shares the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean with Haiti. I saw him once from then until I was in my forties. I kept saying I need to visit him in order [...]

Travel Journal – Part 3 (return trip)

Second Day Back, Saturday, August 19, 2006 The seminar was wonderful, informative and powerful. I am a changed man. The very foundation of existence has shifted. Life as we know it on the planet will never be the same. The universe has shifted three degrees into the blue. God wept. Okay, enough of that, this is [...]

Travel Journal – Part 2 (days two, three and four)

Second Day – Wednesday, August 10, 2006 Utah is in a different universe. And as you go further east (at least on the 70) it gets more and more alien. The western end has green and looks normal, but it starts to get strange very soon. I was told that, as you travel along the [...]

Travel Journal – Part 1

First Day – Tuesday August 8, 2006 I am taking a road trip to Minneapolis, driving my little Mini Cooper Convertible named Nigel. Yes, I named my car. I was going to fly, but Steve convinced me to take the time and drive, knowing how much I love driving. Good old Steve. What a glorious [...]