Pilot's Log

A sidebar advert on Facebook today claimed that the average person has been to 17 cities. So I took that as a challenge, got a very small scale map of the U.S. out of a date book, and will check off from my travel experiences.

I was born in Erie, but according to the map it's too small to count. From there:

Cleveland - Columbus - Cincinatti - Charleston, WV - Niagara Falls - Pittsburgh - Baltimore - Washington, DC - Richmond - Charleston, SC - Savannah - Jacksonville - Tampa - St. Petersburg - Orlando - Gainesville - Macon - Atlanta - Chattanooga - Knoxville - Asheville - Columbia - Lexington - Louisville - Indianapolis - Chicago - Madison - Minneapolis/St. Paul

That's 28. Which I suppose is fairly impressive for somebody who didn't get into sports and who never had a job that involved travel. But as far as I'm concerned, it's nowhere near enough.

FP

Going on a very long road trip first thing in the morning; need to make sure I have everything packed.

* T-Shirts, Sweat shirts, long sleeve shirt, raincoat √
* Slacks, jeans, jammies, undies, socks √
* Slippers, bathrobe, belt, toiletries pack, toothbrush, towel √
* Camera (fresh batteries loaded), clipboard, pens, key drive, binoculars √
* Road maps, atlas, trip planners √
* Munchies, Drinks, First-Aid kit, medicines √

And I'll be wearing my "chocolate chips" BDU suit with pockets for my wallet, keys, sunglasses, notepad, datebook, Duck knife, hankie, and other tools.

Via danihana, although she wasn't the first I've seen do this on my Friendslist:


visited 16 states (32%)
Create your own visited map of The United States or Best time to visit El Salvador

For somebody who wanted to do a lot of travelling when I was young, I've only partly made that goal. Not shown is my only foreign jaunt, a weekend in Canada when I was eight or nine.

New Sensors Can Detect Land Mines From The Air.

Which is good for all those old battlefields all over the world that need to be cleared...

But a bad idea for the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. If the North equipped some planes with sensors like these and then used the information to put maps on GPS units they can issue to their soldiers, then there's very little to stop them from concluding the Korean War--with their side winning.

Overnight I dreamt I was forty years in the past, drinking something I'd never had before in a pub with Ringo Starr, while a news story about a hippie music festival was playing on all the place's TV sets. Why Ringo? I'm not sure. GPS doesn't work temporally. Anybody know if Rand-McNally makes a time-travel atlas? The chronostream charts I have are no longer accurate enough to use with any reliability.

I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)

I decided that this week I'd try to get my Friends list above 100 users. I'm sure many of you have more than that, but I'd been around the 70 figure for months and I thought it was important for me to widen my scope.

FP

...and I don't know if he was real.

My dream was I traveled back in time, perhaps the better part of a century, and met a great man whose fame had not lasted to our time. He was an actor, a martial artist before the word had been coined, and a stage superstar. But he wore a mask over part of his face due to wounds on his nose that surgery of the time could not reverse. (The Great War, perhaps? Or Cuba?) I don't remember if I heard his name. I think this was in Chicago.

Was this history or metaphor? I suppose I need help here.

FP

PS: Let's do it again, like we did last summer...

I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)