Several years ago, Dr. Pepper was my favorite drink. I drank it or nothing everywhere I went. But several months ago, Coke changed the formula for Mr. Pibb and changed the name to Pibb Extra. Now more and more restaurants in the south are carrying Pibb Extra instead of Dr. Pepper. [...]
Category > On the Road Again
Driving in Dallas
The people who designed the roads in Texas must have been smoking some primo weed when they put pen to paper, because I can’t figure out where the hell I’m going most of the time.
The biggest pain in the ass is the “access road” that runs parallel to the highways (which they call “freeways” here, [...]
Random Thoughts from 40,000 Feet
I’m on my way to Dallas Texas. As is the usual case, my employer booked me on the worst possible flight (leaving Atlanta at 9:00 pm), in coach, on a full flight. As we are a corporate customer, I tried using our upgrades to get into a business class seat so I don’t [...]
Update! Update!
Thank you all for your comments and emails wondering where I am and why I haven’t updated the blog. You might remember, I’m in Hawaii.. Look at the picture on the left…. when you can see that every day, would you rather be outside, or inside the hotel room, blogging?
Let’s think about this [...]
A Brush with Fame
I haven’t seen these guys (of course I realize it’s not the same guys) since I was a kid… but last night they rolled into my hotel…who are they? The Harlem Globetrotters… last night I saw the bus in the parking lot (where I took the picture)… today I ran into a couple [...]
The Blizzard of 2005?
On great, I’m in northern Ohio now and it’s already snowing outside… am I gonna get stuck here? They’re talking about the Blizzard of 2005 is coming here this weekend. Pray it’s not early, so I can fly out of here on Thursday afternoon.
An energetic, quick-moving storm will dive east-southeastward across the Great [...]
You might be in Ohio when…
I’ve never enjoyed travelling to Ohio, it always seems like some desolate, depressed place. This time my travels brought me to Dayton… the armpit of America… There’s nothing positive to say about Dayton… my travel from the Dayton airport south on 75 to this customer’s site took me through downtown Dayton and what I [...]
A Real Bad Day
Today was a travel day and I don’t think it can possibly get any worse than it already has….
It started off with a phone call this morning from my mom, warning me to check the airline’s website to see if there were any delays (I’m in Ohio)… the fact that my mom called wasn’t the [...]
