Time

WILMINGTON, Del. – Time is both relative and absolute. When my flight from Los Angeles landed in suburban Baltimore at 7:00 this morning, it was 4:00 a.m. in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It was also 5:00 a.m. in Whitefish, Montana; 6:00 a.m. at Wrigley Field in Chicago; and 12:00 p.m. at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground [...]

Zen

SAN JOSE, Calif. – It’s late, I’ve spent most of tonight being angry about the train system in Silicon Valley and I have to get up early in the morning if I want to have any chance of spending a good amount of time in San Francisco. But I feel like I ought to give [...]

Finally

SAN MATEO, Calif. – It took a mighty long time, but I’ve finally made it to the Bay Area. I last blogged when the train left Colfax. Soon after that, we  were given permission by Union Pacific to divert onto a different track and pass the freight train that had been delaying us so much. [...]

That toddlin’ town

DEERFIELD, Ill. – What a day this was. I covered a lot of ground, from the Magnicficent Mile to Soldier Field and a lot of Millenium Park in between. Once again, I took a lot of pictures. You’ll find highlights within this post and the full batch here. I started in Deerfield with breakfast at [...]

Cubs win

DEERFIELD, Ill. – A very rare thing happened to me today: I experienced an event that exceeded my expectations for it. For all the prosaic writing I’ve read about Wrigley Field, as I got off the subway at Addison and Sheffield I couldn’t help thinking that I was nonetheless about to walk into the oldest [...]

Goals

CHICAGO – I’ve done a lot of travelogues before, and I have a bad habit of stating on the record that I intend to do an entry from somewhere. Most of the time I make myself live up to the promise, but every once in a while I forget, or the circumstances make it not [...]