2013 Road Trip Report

Let’s be clear: I know that “unuseful” isn’t an actual word. But you knew what I meant, so we’re all good here. That’s the blessing and curse of the English language: it’s really easy to misuse, and really easy to interpret when it’s misused.

I could have said “useless”, but that suggests a complete lack of utility value, and only one of the three unuseful things qualified in that regard. Then it would have been three useful things, two unuseful things, and one useless thing. And that’s just silly.

Moving on. Continue Reading →

Wow.

So I’m in Vancouver, having arrived at approximately 3:20pm this afternoon, and I guess it’s time for some concluding thoughts.

But first thing’s first. Continue Reading →

This is another two-day report, but it isn’t a double digest because I don’t have much to say about Day 15. It was pretty much a travel day, and while Crater Lake was one of my targeted destinations since Josh Hoey told me about it a couple of months ago (thanks, Josh!), I wasn’t really excited. And it took me until Day 16 to figure out why that’s the case. Continue Reading →

I thought that today’s update would be about San Francisco, and it is…but it’s so much more than that.

Because today, I think I figured a few things out. Continue Reading →

It’s a Double Digest! Two issues for the price of one! Which really isn’t saying much, but should raise your suspicions that this might be insanely long. Honestly, I wouldn’t blame you for skimming it, or just skipping it all together.

Oh, and if you don’t know what a Double Digest is, you either didn’t read enough Archie comics as a kid, or you’re too young to remember them. Although they do still sell them in grocery stores, and I always wonder who’s still buying them.

Anyway, on to the show. Continue Reading →