On Coffee II
I’ve travelled America across both time and space. The way you can tell the difference between the two modes of transportation is that things change quite a lot for one and not at all...
Flying frequently, and writing about it.
Seattle: Quietly Superlative
Seattle is everything I love about San Francisco at a fraction of the price and without a hint of smugness. from my travel journal After nearly three weeks of travel through north America, Seattle...
On Coffee I
For a country that allegedly runs on coffee, it is surprisingly difficult to get a good cup of it in the US. It’s ludicrously easy to get coffee, as long as you’re not picky,...
Felt wordy, might delete later
A friend asked me a couple years ago why I stopped adding to what I’d started to refer to as “The Airport Chronicles.” I didn’t have a good answer. I changed jobs to something...
Great Falls Interlude
I lived in DC for four years as a college student, which breaks down to three academic years and four summers. Students have a very different relationship to their settings than non-students do; undergrads...
Connections: Chicago
Chicago always knows what I need and cheerfully gives it to me. Over the years I’ve been in and out of Chicago for work, college, family visits, and randomness. If one is to spend...
Asheville: An unexpected draught of life
Asheville is an achingly hip, craft beer soaked, delightfully southern town nestled in the heart of the first mountains I ever loved. I’d been there as a kid, travelling with a youth choir, but...
Small but perfectly formed
I grew up thinking airports were gigantic things, self-contained cities in their own right, whirling and spinning, the equivalent of a class 5 white water rapid in the river of moving humanity. I eventually...
Pittsburgh: We’re still not okay.
In the odd butterfly effect way that air travel happens, a cancelled flight to Cincinnati has caused me to have to stay in the Pittsburgh airport while trying to get to DC. It is...
Tenacity, and a request
I made it about halfway through last April’s chronicles before things caught up with me, then my life sort of got turned upside down for a while. Now that I’m more accustomed to the...
