I had every intention of skipping the Science Fiction World Convention this year. Yeah, I have a membership, have had for a year. No, I don’t have anything against Chicago. At least not anything that would keep me from going there for a couple of days. The problem is time: I don’t have it. I …
Category Archive: Travel
Posts about travel.
Sep 14 2010
Greetings from Sydney (and belated Greetings from Cairns)
I didn’t do a ‘Greetings from Cairns’ because it was so difficult to get a decent Net connection there. So this is ‘Greetings from Sydney’, with extra Cairns on top… In my previous installment I described how I returned from Adelaide to Melbourne. I then spent a week at Aussiecon (more on that in a …
Sep 03 2010
Greetings from Melbourne
In my previous installment I provided a map of my peregrinations from Melbourne airport to Adelaide. I’m still way too busy to write up an in-depth report, nor have I posted any pictures to the web yet. But I do have time to give you the route back. I started early from Adelaide, hoping to …
Sep 01 2010
My Aussiecon 4 contact info
During the convention (Thursday through Tuesday morning) I will be at the Pensione Hotel. My in-Australia phone number is 0429225065. I posted my Aussiecon 4 schedule last week.
Aug 31 2010
Greetings from Adelaide
So, as anyone who has been following my Twitter feed knows, I’ve been galavanting about Australia. The Twittering is possible because I picked up an Australian SIM card for my Google phone (local Australian number is 0429225065) and could use that whenever it had connectivity. However, access to actual Internet via something with a real …
Aug 26 2010
Travel as a ‘Possession’
I am using ‘Possession’ here in the sense of something you own.(Yes, it could be argued that the alternative meaning of something owning and controlling you is valid as well! But that’s not where I am going.) Here I am talking about travel as a kind of ‘stuff’, in the George Carlin definition of something …
Aug 26 2010
My Aussiecon 4 Schedule
I am scheduled for the following programming items: Thu 1500 Rm 204: How to enjoy this convention Fri 1700 Rm 204: What can mystery teach science fiction? Sat 1000 Rm 204: How to enjoy this convention 2 Sat 1700 Rm 211: The classics of 2035 Sun 1000 Rm P3: Wild frontier to final frontier: the …
Aug 26 2010
In LAX, waiting for the big bird
I’m currently waiting in LAX for my flight late tonight to Oz. I have a Delta SkyClub membership, so it isn’t that bad, but ten hours is still a pretty egregious layover. If you are also flying out of LAX tonight and would like to get into the SkyClub while you wait, drop me a …
Apr 12 2010
Upcoming travel
I just dropped a load of money setting up the bones of two trips. (Flesh to come later.) The first trip is to go do something that has been on my bucket list for more than a generation: watch a shuttle launch. STS 132 is scheduled to launch on Friday May 14th. It is the …
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